Talk.ElectricianForum.co.uk
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First Forum Using Domain
17th April 2007 we bought electriciansforums.co.uk
15th Jan 2008 they bought electricianforum.co.uk
(click those dates to check yourself)
First Forum to 1.5m Posts
We have 1.5m posts, they don’t have 500k yet and they’ve got some right stupid threads going to try increase post count
First Forum with 45,000 members
We erase unused account, allow members to erase their account, have zero spam accounts get through, and have 45,000+ genuine members. They have sub 25,000 and nearly half automated bot accounts with zero posts.
CHANGE DOMAINS!
It would cost them the price of a .com domain name to change their whole website over to a new unique name of their own that saves no confusion.
It is possible to 301 redirect all old traffic to the new domain. We just did it with our .co.uk to .net change.
We would have chosen another brand name but WE HAVE 12 DOMAINS OF THE SAME BRANDING YOU NUMPTIES!
Branding
Get your bloody own and stop riding on the back of our traffic ya fuckers.
Stick with a .co.uk if you wish
Just make sure you’ve used more than a single brain cell and a tiny bit of thinking power so you can come up with a name of your own instead of jumping on the back of somebody else’s branding.
Domain Terrorists
“I was confused I thought I’d signed up to electriciansforums.co.uk and then found the other domain and tried to login to that instead”
Janet Morris; genuine case
“I signed up to electriciansforums.co.uk in 2007 and then in 2008 thought the domain had changed, I quickly learnt it was a criminal copycat”
Willie Brown; actual member who’s pissed off still to this day
“I think we should just DDOS the fuck out of them during all their busy periods until their hosting costs more than its worth because they need to outbandwidth the traffic which is very costly”
Sean Fisher; ethical hacker
Let’s work together to stop you being a problem for us
We will help you FOC to fuck off onto a domain name of your own. If you can only use domain names that we can think up, we can think up a few for you and you use your little fat fingers to pick one out of a hat – ya cunts
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- I have a servo drive that is rated 10AMP. It then has a second rating refered to as it's Peak current : 30AMP 1) Do you size a MCB using the Peak current rating or the standard rating? 2) Again when choosing a contactor would you go for one closest to it's peak current rating or standard current rating? I am also thinking of chucking in a efi noise reduction line filter if someone could guide me a suitable one . Thanks,
- So, I can’t turn off the board, can’t really turn off circuits except the one I am replacing with an RCBO. It’s all singles in trunking no sheaths to trace back to find the appropriate L and CPC, and obviously, nothing is labelled and they definitely aren’t in the correct neutral terminals. Normally I would link out L&N and bell out neutrals as I pull the neutrals out the bar but that is no good on critical live systems. Anyone got any hacks or tricks? I don’t want to tell them it’s a no… Read more
- I will try to explain this as best as I can, Wired 18 downlights in two rows of 9, The downlights were wired in 3core and earth cable so two switch wires could be used to switch the downlights however the customer wished. It was opted for the lights to be switched in banks of two on alternating switch wires (hope that makes sense) So the problem is ALL the lights turn on regardless of which switch wire is on (with the other off) The lights do seem slightly dimmer on the switch wire that… Read more
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- Hi all I am after some advice I have an existing single socket with metal back box and 7 wires 3 earth to one point 2 live and 2 neutral I have a new socket with usb that I want to swap to I put all 3 earths in new face plate and the 2 live and 2 neutral in the correct places Switched trip switch back on and it tripped whole system Any advice would be a big help Thanks Denzo
- I have a customer who lives in a grand old house which suffers from damp. The ground floor sockets (2 different circuits) IR test at around 0.3Mohms L/N-E. This was actually 0.01Mohms but I have already done some fault finding and managed to improve it. Most of the back boxes are very rusted and flaking to bits with moisture inside them. As stated, I have done some improvements to the sockets and boxes but this has only managed to get the IR up to 0.3Mohms (L/N-E). I have looked thoroughly… Read more
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So a guy sees new electrical forum, joins it, kicks around on it and gets a ban, creates his own and doesn’t have much between the ears so the only name he can come up with is one exactly the same as the one he’s been banned on. Did he A) choose it to ride off the back of it B) choose it because he was banned from the first one or C) all of the above?
Whichever it was, his website isn’t his own, he’s just using it until it is claimed by the owner of the brand he’s borrowing without permission.