Lighting circuit. 3 rooms. I turned the breaker off and in the last room of the circuit I checked the light switch to make sure lights didn’t come on. They didn’t.
Anyway….the circuit still live at the fitting. The wire from the previous room loop.
I then turned the rcb off on the side of...
How is addtionl light spur added spur in the following situation? Nuteral is looped at the fitting and live is looped at the switch. Theres two netural and one switched live at the light fitting, with all live and switched live at the switch.
Hi there - some of you might have seen my previous post about current-measuring CT clamps. This is another question about them! Once again I'd like to make it clear that I am not an electrician; my understanding of what you guys do is more than a layman, but mostly conceptual rather than...
Recently bought a none contact voltage tester and decided to use it on a few things around the house but a metal bedroom light is lighting up red and beeping to say the light is live. I have tried it on all of the parts of the light and it lights up everywhere. I am too scared to touch the metal...
I replace two floodlight cameras with smart floodlight cameras. After replacing the second one on day 2, the first one stopped working that was replaced on day 1 (worked right before I turned power off). I swapped with an new one and even with the old floodlight and still not working. The...
Hi Guys,
I drilled into a Live wire it's my office (commercial unit) I have the electrician coming out tomorrow just wanted to know what my options were for repairing this P.S I have no idea why I decided to drill above a socket stupid mistake.
Hello,
My mother a/c got touched by live wire in the case.
The a/c is grounded and the electric breaker jumped so there was a very short time short.
The a/c is not functional after this short and Technion said the card is dead due to the short.
Can live wire that touch the case kill the card...
I've been fault finding an issue in a domestic property, the situation is as follows...
RCD spur that is protecting outside sockets,
This spur is on the downstairs 32A ring, the sockets directly on the ring pass RCD tripping test.
The cables coming into the spur won't trip when tested...
I have a number of circuits in a not very old Hager sub CU, with split RCDs. All of the active circuits (8 used in a 12 slot dual RCD CU) test fine. RCDs tripping fine under test with Megger MFT. However, I have a MTN B140 (40 amp obvs) MCB in the board that has nothing connected to it. ie...
Hi everyone, I have a Vauxhall insignia 2.0 cdti non starter, cranks but no start.
It also doesn’t crank very fast, tried new battery and still the same, it cranks kind of sluggish and the dash lights start to flicker, live voltage readings at crank drop from 12v to 7v, does that mean the...
Brief run down for you all
Checked end to end of ring that’s sound
Meggered LN sound NE sound LE 0.03
Split the ring same stuff
Split it again same stuff again
Long story short stripped all sockets off on the ring and every single leg has a LE fault
Was rewired 2010
Only logical thing I can...
I have one mcb in the consumer unit that supplies external lights. When this is off the coal shed, shower room main light and toilet light don't switch on.
There is a light switch in each of the shower room and toilet.
There is a 2 gang light switch in the shower/toilet access passage. One...
Need some guidance please.
I know that smoke alarms require a permanent live and neutral in order to operate. Is this also the case with emergency lights? (The type you have in stairways)
Secondly, have I also understood correctly that these two can only be available at the ceiling rose if the...
Hi guys looking for advice here,
Voltage on light casing!
Just been out and bought a new light fitting (I will attach the photo of said light) simple 2 core and earth terminal connections.
After install i wanted to check the lower ring of the light to see if it had earth continuity from the...
Hello, I'm DIYer. I purchased a lamp but it didn't come with any instructions. Can anyone help me figuring out where to connect L and N? Please see that attached image.
hi there, recently had an electrician in as the kitchen was being re done now iam an apprentice didn't want to say anything to the guy who is qualified and of course and argument but hes left connector block joints in the plaster board wall with insulation taped up where existing sockets where...
I have a large house in Brittany across the channel on the Plymouth-Roscoff ferry, it’s an hours drive once you get to Roscoff and I’m offering free accommodation for a tradesmen who wants to spend one day a week rewiring it or plastering it, it will be quite spartan until it’s plastered., but...
Hi I’m upgrading the fog lamps on a 2013 Range Rover sport to combined FOG and DRL got the fogs working but have a single wire to be connected to an ignition live, where will the closest ignition live wire be
https://www.electriciansforums.net/media/dont-touch-that-hands-on-customer-attempts-insanely-dangerous-diy.19349/
Scroll to about 4.30 minute mark , I honest don’t think I have ever had a custOmer physically stick their hand inside the consumer unit while I’m trying to work
delroy Gets all the...
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