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  1. O

    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. Paula

    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...
  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...
  4. R

    Electrician Jobs Electricians needed for sites across London

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  5. charlie76

    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. Dave Jenkins

    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...
  8. Spunkywads26

    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...
  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 ......
  10. F

    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
    • Thread
    • across fault fault finding load rcd rcd tripping tripping
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: The Welcome Forum
  11. I

    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
    • Thread
    • across eicr help 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

  14. L

    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...
  16. haptism

    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...
  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
    • Thread
    • 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...
  20. E

    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
    • Thread
    • across main main switch off switch timer volts when
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice
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