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[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[ipf]

Lovely car lift installation.

At the lift.

The supply point...

and the route, via cable tying to sprinkler pipe..

 

[Carolina]

Come now, lets do it properly:
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I do the Western Union and only add solder when the wiring goes inside appliances, there's almost no regulation on electrical work where I live so most self-proclaimed "electricians" use random wires and do simple twist splices and cover it with tape.

Here's a dodgy thing, minus "protective" cap. Guess what this is.

If you said mug warmer then you're right, it makes your tea/coffee/beverage of preference boil and could make your mug explode if you leave it plugged for more than 30 seconds, but does the job.

edit: upload image directly to thread.

 

[Raptor0014]

Went to look at a place this morning to do a site visit for a quote as they want a EV Charge Point. They had solar installed about 5 weeks ago. This is how the installers left it. Owner didn’t see the problem.

I stuck a blank in it as a gesture of good will.

 

[Mike Johnson]

I suspect the Pholcus phalangioides didn't think much of it either. 🕷

 

[jay sean]

Seen in Newport City Center, shop refirb in progress... Where is the cut out for the cutout?



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I used to love the MEMshield 2 fuse boards they were solid

 

[Raptor0014]

Nicely done….

 

[LukeD]

Went to look at a place this morning to do a site visit for a quote as they want a EV Charge Point. They had solar installed about 5 weeks ago. This is how the installers left it. Owner didn’t see the problem.

I stuck a blank in it as a gesture of good will.

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Jesus .....If I was the owner, I would go nuts

 

[Raptor0014]

Sweet Jesus H…..

 

[James]

Never seen swa made off and earthed like this before. What are your thoughts? I am thinking poor workmanship and not following manufacturers instructions.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I have seen SWA made off like that quite afew times but normally when its made off into a plastic gland and the sparks winds the armour together like that parking it to earth

I don't like seeing SWA made off like that into a plastic box / plastic gland with the strands earthed like that but like most things its probably a new fangled way of doing things

 

[timhoward]

Never seen swa made off and earthed like this before. What are your thoughts? I am thinking poor workmanship and not following manufacturers instructions.

Agreed. Seen it, hate it. Usually fix it with an earthing nut.

 

[Mike Johnson]

It must be more difficult to do it like that rather than using the supplied earthing tag under the fixing nut?

 

[Raptor0014]

Never seen swa made off and earthed like this before. What are your thoughts? I am thinking poor workmanship and not following manufacturers instructions.View attachment 100505View attachment 100506View attachment 100507

I’ve seen it a couple of times and I usually just re-gland and use a Piranha nut.

 

[brianmoooore]

Under certain fault conditions, the current flowing through those few strands of steel could be sufficient to heat them to a dangerous level. Not acceptable.

 

[James]

Under certain fault conditions, the current flowing through those few strands of steel could be sufficient to heat them to a dangerous level. Not acceptable.

As it happens, I was removing it anyway and replacing with bigger cable that is correctly glanded and bonded

 

[Mike Johnson]

Oh no not following the manufacturers instruction in a CU whatever next.

 

[telectrix]

thy followed MI with the Titanic.

 

[James]

thy followed MI with the Titanic.

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when navigating waters with possible large icebergs, send a lad up to watch for ice in the crows nest, be sure not to equip him with binoculars but carry on at full speed anyway.

there are at times better ways of doing it than the manufacturers recommendations!!

 

[telectrix]

one theory is that if he'd hit it head on, he'd crumple the bow, slplt a few cocktails, but not be in a sinking condition. hay foot, straw foot.

 

[Raptor0014]

No prizes for guessing the issue here.

 

[James]

No prizes for guessing the issue here.

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Yes, your right, The henly blocks are upside down. WHY WOULD SOMEONE DO THAT!!!
at least whoever put the ct clamp on recognised what the true purpose of the cable was whilst ignoring the tape.

 

[Dustydazzler]

The phase tape on the wrong cores and the upside down henley blocks sending my OCD into hyper-drive

 

[Moley]

the upside down henley blocks sending my OCD into hyper-drive

I'm glad it's not just me!

 

[James]

brown to the right
blue to the left
and anything else in the middle.

it was a rime that someone taught my wife many many years ago to help her wire a plug.
she uses it to tease me anytime I am reading instructions or wondering how to wire something up.

The last time she used it was when i was wiring a panel for a small automatic machine, the wire count was over 1000 with 300 or so going off to external switches, actuators, buttons etc.
there I am tracing 30 core cables to label them and put them in the right place and she came to "help" with her advice, good job she is my wife coz the apprentice would have had a much worse response!!

 

[littlespark]

My OCD is being triggered every time you lot call the Henley blocks.

It quite clearly says they’re manufactured by Click.

 

[telectrix]

isn't not also reverse polarity?

 

[DPG]

isn't not also reverse polarity?

Yep, that's the worrying thing Tel.

 

[telectrix]

and the smaller cables coming out of the henly click boxes protected only by DNO fuse.

 

[brianmoooore]

I reckon it's the coloured cable ties that are wrong, not the tape. Meter looks newer than the blocks.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I reckon it's the coloured cable ties that are wrong, not the tape. Meter looks newer than the blocks.

I was think the exact same thing , the meter monkey put the tails in the wrong way round

 

[ipf]

No prizes for guessing the issue here.

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Connector blocks upside down?

 

[James]

I reckon it's the coloured cable ties that are wrong, not the tape. Meter looks newer than the blocks.

Most meters, the phase in is left, phase out is right.
N in and out is normally in the middle left and right as per the lives.
however the N are normally just jointed in a short bus bar with a fly lead for the meter electronics.

 

[brianmoooore]

Meter is connected correctly according to the coloured cable ties, but it's the meter monkey that put the cable ties on the wrong tails, probably after he/she removed the old meter.

 

[freddo]

Got called out to check central heating wiring today:

 

[Taylortwocities]

My OCD is being triggered every time you lot call the Henley blocks.

It must really grind on you that that the letters OCD are arranged in the wrong order!!

 

[Mike Johnson]

Got called out to check central heating wiring today:

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That's the Poo plan wiring.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Got called out to check central heating wiring today:

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Looks like 99% of central heating juntion boxes I find

 

[freddo]

That's the Poo plan wiring.

At least they sleeved the live cpc wire brown!

 

[Raptor0014]

isn't not also reverse polarity?

Correct.

Reverse polarity, undersized tails to a EV charge point & upside down connector blocks.

This was done when a EV charger was installed. The guy said the installer made a right mess and he had a load of issue since and they wouldn’t come back.

I thought no one could be that stupid to cross the polarity. But they had.

 

[Mike Johnson]

@freddo It may be my eye's, but is that brown sleeving on a bare CPC.

Sorry did not see your post until later.