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    Voltage across neutral to earth

    Hi I recently had a PV system we installed switched off after the Electrical Contractor got a shock off the Neutral. He was wiring lighting but after a processes of elimination found the fault was on our PV circuit. We did dead tests on the circuit Insulation resistance (1000v) Continuity...
  2. P

    Electric Cable running across Garden

    Hello Looking for a bit of advice. I live in a flat and the upstairs neighbours had an unarmoured electric cable running from their house down the property wall and across my pathway. I asked them to look at it as live and unarmoured and they got someone in who has put armoured cabling in...
    • Paula
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    • across cable electric garden running
    • Replies: 107
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  3. M

    Came across this today .......

    Got sent to a house today to remove a supply to a shed down the bottom of the garden...maybe 20m away from board. Went out the 32a breaker in 6mm t and e jointed under a floorboard to 2.5mm armoured,down a wall to the outside and then under the garden. Entered the shed through a drilled hole and...
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    Electrician Jobs Electricians needed for sites across London

    Our company is an established and innovative BMS company offering a complete range of services associated with BMS and building control services to the construction industry. You’ll be working 7.30am-4.30pm Monday to Friday. You will be met with a generous start off rate, workwear + PPE. Rate...
    • recruitSCI2018
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    • across ecs electricians electricians london london needed sites
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Electricians Jobs
  5. C

    I came across a belter today

    I am at a customers to do a consumer unit swap amongst other bits and bobs and its one of those jobs where you end up fault finding and rectifying before you even strike a blow. Well, fitting some replacement outside security lights to existing feeds off the lighting circuit, I was baffled to...
  6. D

    Anyone come across a wall filled with sand?

    Took a socket off an old house and sand poured out!
  7. M

    RCD trip across board

    I am a relatively newly qualified electrician and have completed a re-wire but come across a problem i dont understand. I have a dual board with a lighting and a power circuit on each side. On the right side the power and lighting is entirely stable, but whenever a load is applied to the...
    • Mark Playford
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    • across board rcd trip
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  8. S

    Borrowed Neutral across Lighting Circuits

    I've go a situation where a property has 3 lighting circuits: Downstairs Ltg Upstairs Ltg Rear Downstairs Extension I've discovered that the landing light is fed via the ground floor lighting circuit but has a borrowed neutral from the upstairs circuit. I wanted to separate these on the...
    • Spunkywads26
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    • across borrowed circuits lighting neutral
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  9. JOURNEYMAN

    Came across this yesterday

    Domestic supply to a first floor two bedroomed flat above a shop sharing the service head with another flat next door. I haven't been next door so don't know what or how the cable has been terminated but if it's anything like this ......
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    RCD Tripping Hell with high load

    Hi all. First time poster here with a hell of a lot less hair than I had 3 weeks ago now! so please be nice, I'll try and explain best I can. I am not a sparky but have some idea of electrics. I also own a multimeter. Short version. 100A, 30mA RCD trips INTERMITTENTLY on WYLEX 8 fuse board...
    • Fletch
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    • across fault fault finding load rcd rcd tripping tripping
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: The Welcome Forum
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    New here... and here is a an interesting DB I've come across... need some help with EICR for it!

    Hello, I've got a question that I thought I throw out to the crowd and see what comes back... I am a little stuck with a recent EICR that followed a change of occupier. The home is 30 ish years old and has been extended several times. It is a fairly large home with swimming pool, multiple...
    • itsonly3wires
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    • across eicr interesting meter tails new
    • Replies: 30
    • Forum: The Welcome Forum
  12. Pete999

    Pete's Videos Aye up Guys new tester from across the pond

    And you can make it yourself
  13. Pete999

    RCD / GFCI testing from across the pond

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    Texecom premier elite compatibility

    Doing an unoccupied rewire on a house for a builder and part of that was running the cables in for a intruder alarm. finished of the snagging today and the customer has asked if I would mind fitting the alarm as they've been let down by the person who was supposed to do it. I had a look at the...
  15. Pete999

    Buying a quote

    Hi Folks, don't know if I have this information right or not, hence my question. My Lad (Camerabloke) paid a visit today, and showed me something interesting. Someone on the net posted a "buy a quote" thread, it seems this thread or post whatever you want to call it, not to sure where it came...
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    British Gas Meter Bonding

    Just been looking at a family members house and electrics; about 2 years ago the Gas Board moved their meter from under the stairs to a box outside. Anyhow they have not run any bonding to the meters new position and have bonded onto a gas pipe not far the original meter position, which is where...
    • haptism
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    • across bonding british british gas gas gas meter meter their
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  17. J

    Using powerline homeplugs across separate circuits

    I have just bought an Innuos music server not realising it has no built in Wi-fi capability, but needs an ethernet wired connection to the router. This could be done only by placing it in the cupboard where the router lives, whereas I wanted to place it alongside my Naim streamer upstairs. So...
    • Jeff105
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    • across circuits devices earth powerline rcbos separate these using
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: Home Media Centre Forum
  18. A

    Powerline network adapters across distribution boards

    Hi all, First off, I apologise for my ignorance and I am certain I will say many stupid things and use the wrong terminology! I work at a Holiday park that is quite large. We have a few toilet blocks that are out the way, but we would like to get the internet down there. The distance is too...
  19. Midwest

    Another flashing LED story

    Did a kitchen refurb' a few weeks ago. One of the things the client wanted was under cabinet lighting. As the lighting circuit did not have an RCD, I powered the light from 2 x FCU's. The uc lighting was supplied by the kitchen manufacturer. One FCU supplies 2 x led drivers (12v), with 2 x led...
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    Why is there 8 volts across the main switch when the mech n/storage timer is off?

    I have a mechanical timer switch controlling the night storage radiators. My multimeter can read AC volts but not amps. The mechanical timer switch is showing off at the moment, however:- When I put the multimeter across the supply with the consumer unit main switch on it registers about 8...
    • electricans_son
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    • across main main switch off switch timer volts when
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice

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