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    Unusual predicament testing 17th Edt install

    Hello folks got a quick couple of questions regarding some testing i have recently undertaken. Im doing an EICR for a friend on a couple of new build flats where the electrics were done by an unqualified builder. If the install should be done to current regs are things like missing earths at...
  2. D

    unusual electrical faults

    Hi, just wanted to start this forum, for any unusual, or faults that you don't come across ever day.
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    unusual system out put

    Hi All i will be as quick as possible. System six months old. 16 sharp 250 panels. 2 strings. 10 panels south. 6 panels east. aurora 3.6 power one. Total generation for 6 months 720 units. Purchased aurora communicator software. ran it and sent results to aurora. inverter fine. dead dc test...
  4. S

    unusual ceiling rose wiring

    Hi i was just painting my ceiling and unscrewed the ceiling rose to cut in and noticed that the wiring doesn't look quite right. there are 3 cables so i assumed 1 in, 1 out and the switch. There are 3 reds in the centre block, 1 black in the 2 gang block with the neutral of the light, and 2...
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    Unusual tax question!

    Hi chaps, Currently working as a self-emplyed sub-contractor. I'm registered as such with HMRC and recently I've been working for a single company and using their equipment and vans. I invoice them at the end of the month with my hours and rate and they transfer the cash. This month the...
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    Megger MFT1553 unusual readings while testing rcbo's

    Hi Guys I'm fresh to the EF had a bit of a bad day, replaced an old wylex Bs3036 consumer unit with a new enclosure with 8 Rcbo's (1 x 40, 4 x 32,1 x 20, 2 x 10 amp) all went in fine all continuity, end to end tests and insulation tests went well, until I started testing the rcbo's using the...
  7. W

    not so unusual fault

    just a story i thought id share was rewiring a burnout in wandsworth with my mate in january when on the second day was a knock on the door. It was the lady next doors handyman saying all power was down to oneside of her kitchen and asked if it could be anything to do with us, told him shouldnt...
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    Unusual Halogen Transformer help.

    Hi, I've joined to pick the collective brains on here:wink5: I've got a lighting set up bought from Habitat a few years ago. It consists of a big drum transformer, it has two steel wires which span the room and five halogen bulb holders attach to this. It appears the transformer died the other...
    • BMillar
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    • ceiling halogen lamps suitable transformer unusual
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  9. S

    R1+R2 unusual reading

    I was asked to add 3 extra sockets to a bedroom. It is a one ring supplying upstairs and downstairs with no RCD. Kitchen has a different ring. When doing R1+R2 with cross joining Live & cpc at cu, I get a reading of 0.23 ohm upstairs and it keeps rising to 1.01 ohm downstairs. Same problem...
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    New Comer requires a little advice on an unusual Mains Supply to the local pub.. HELP

    Hi, I m very new to this so please go easy... Got called out to the local pub yesterday to a supply fault, the Landlord has informed me that every now again (usually a Saturday night when they are busy) the pub will loose all power. The Supplier is called out and usually replace the Fuse next...
    • Red Spot
    • Thread
    • advice little local mains new phase requires supply unusual
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Unusual Cable type

    Hey everyone, Came across a unusual type of cable today that i have never seen or heard of before & wondered if any light could be shed for me? Its a mains feed from a meter position in a block of flats & on first glance looks like a 6 or 10 mm 3 core swa but is actually a outer sheaf & no...
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    Unusual Aurora W003 fault code

    I thought you might be interested in an unusual fault I have been dealing with by telephone. Customer phoned yesterday saying that with passing cumulus and sunshine the inverter output was oscillating wildly the inverter then cut out as the voltage was rising fast around 255V with fault code...
  13. jibjob

    Unusual RCD problem

    Here's the senario. Regency building with 5 flats contained within. System is 3 Phase with a further 2 service fuses added on making 5 in total, earthing is TT. Each flat is fed via a mixture of DP 100mA or 30mA RCD's which in turn feed KMF switched fuse isolators. 16mm T&E tails to each flat...
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    unusual foreign electrics

    Hey all. This is my first post. I consider myself to be a competent DIYer. I worked for an electrician for two years and have a better than average grasp of UK domestic electrical installations. However, I now find myself in bulgaria and I'm about to rewire my own house but the system of supply...
    • TBarbados
    • Thread
    • electric electrical electrics not uk unusual
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Advice please on a CU swap with an unusual Radial socket cct

    TN-C-S DOMESTIC. I have been asked to replace an old domestic CU with a new CU. I have performed the IR tests and all comply, all socket outlets are on a Radial configuration with 20A protection & 30mA RCD with 2.5mm squared T&E. The circuit comprises of 4 single and 1 double Socket and Central...
  16. 1capybara

    rubber or PVC sheath allowed? And cables with unusual rating types ???

    Heres 2 examples - one indoor and one outdoor. 1. Indoor we have a junction box, out from the j-box comes a 3 core cable [hot, neutral, and ground] to feed a pendant light hanging from a chain 3' below. Does it matter to the 17th edition if we use PVC sheathed cable [for ex.m, HO5-V V] or rubber...
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    VERY unusual connection to earth, possible PME system?

    Evening All I've come across a very unusual situation; I've recently been asked to do a consumer unit replacement on a job but on inital inspection i've discovered that the systems only connection to earth is via a 16mm2 cable between the MET and the netural connection within the henley block...
  18. L

    Dishwasher/Hob

    A customer of mine has a small kitchen and wants me to fit a dishwasher in the unit below the hob.I am trying to think of a reason why not as its a bit unusual,but i cant think of any reason why not but would like opinions please.
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    Unusual location of pull cord shower isolator - code?

    I'm doing an EICR at the moment for a family member, so most of the remedials are being done as the defects are discovered. As such, it's gone up to 100% sampling because of what's been found. The bathroom is upstairs, but the pull cord isolator for the shower is mounted on the WALL.... in the...
  20. M

    unusual cooker wiring? or wrong?

    the existing setup: 32A mcb, 2 x 2.5mm twin & earth cables in parallel (ring final?) from CU to cooker switch (40m length), there is no other sockets or spurs - only the cooker switch, 6mm cable from cooker switch to cooker (<2m lenght) it is not right, is it? how can I make it right? also: the...
    • mrmisior
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    • aus cooker unusual wiring wrong
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: Australia

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