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Today's findings. Located on top of a tool store in large workshop.[/URL][/IMG]Yes, it is a live board
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haha quality!
haha quality!
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NDG Elecs
Now if that was an insulated CU the mouse might still be eating crumbs. Obviously the IP rating wasn't up to much!
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"Our boiler has stopped working"
That must of stunk for a while too! And I'm not talking about the bin
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Should explain. First pic, cutting of cable, was within a commercial boiler. Heating loop had burst and boiler had run dry and boiled it's nuts off, the stat and thermal cut out had both been messed about with by a previous hero and is why we think they never cut off before the damage was done. Actually surprised the cable got to the point it did before the fuse blew! This incident also killed two pumps.
Second one was loop burst again and pump ran dry and caught fire. Luckily RCD tripped and fire was contained within the boiler.
Second one was loop burst again and pump ran dry and caught fire. Luckily RCD tripped and fire was contained within the boiler.
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Kamikaze
And you thought some electricians are dippy!
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uksparks
This is a socket, obviously, it was down the side of a fridge, basically the house movers had forced a fridge in a hole far too small and dented the side of the fridge, and the force had broken the socket because the inner but as you can see had been pushed in, it then went bang because the earth tag cut into the live wire behind!
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Kamikaze
To be fair, Davis skirting trunking always used to be a pain in the @rse, especially where a partition wall had gone up and the lid could no longer be removed. The surface mounted data point on the bottom L.H.S. of the picture must be an afterthought because outlets used to be mounted on plates which were held on by brackets either side of the plate. Having said that, whoever made that hole in the lid couldn’t have been the brightest kid on the block.:13:
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ddelectrical
Nice neutral connection
Nice earth connection on the same cable, was just shoved through a hole in the bottom of the mcc.
There aren't any crimps underneath that tape!
A fine example, perhaps, of the future state of metal clad consumer units in damp conditions in years to come? Hmmm - "all rust must be earthed". Ha! Bonkers.
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davesparks
Why would anyone fit a m/c board in damp conditions without further protection?
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OldeSparky
I came across this while carrying out remedial works in holiday cottages. These had been tested a few weeks earlier. Given the all clear. 
Defiantly a code one..
sorry the pic is not that clear.. Can you spot it?
Defiantly a code one..
sorry the pic is not that clear.. Can you spot it?
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The only C1 I can see is because you have the cover off and there is a loose line from the controller in the centre a bit close to the earth bar.
The board is a mess and seems to have two supplies, the MCB on the end is a bit odd fed from the supply side.
The board is a mess and seems to have two supplies, the MCB on the end is a bit odd fed from the supply side.
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OldeSparky
look a little closer ..
i will give one more guess.
a clue... i got a belt after turning off both isolators
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"MCB on the end is a bit odd fed from the supply side." of the main switch
I suppose this is the C1, no ready means of isolation for this circuit.
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OldeSparky
your right.. the square d board is fed from the top rail, plug in mcbs and main switch etc..
Num nuts fitted a dorman smith breaker and took a 2.5 from the main tail to it.
so when you isolate the board the last breaker is still live.
the worrying thing to me is the guy who tested it thinks its ok..
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Kamikaze
If I had had a belt of that, I would have stuck my hammer through the lot of it. That would have isolated it alright, back at the sub-station. It would of cause have been a reflex action and I could therefore not be held responsible for it.
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If I had had a belt of that, I would have stuck my hammer through the lot of it. That would have isolated it alright, back at the sub-station. It would of cause have been a reflex action and I could therefore not be held responsible for it.
what happened, i was going to remove a fused spur so the walls could be tilled, i was the only one in the lodge so just turned off the main switches, i know we should check, but you would think it would be off.
As i got hold of the wires, i did swear a bit.
Lesson learnt for all of us.
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Supply for sockets and pir lights in garage. note the rare twin brown + blue cable in the center.
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OldeSparky
something i didnt mention . it gets worse, because when the main isolator is off and the rouge mcb is on the neutral bar is live and then of course all the neutrals that leave this bar become live..
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thats not good, im surprised no manufacturer makes mcb's with a switched N connection that is single slot wide
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they look like control panel breakers.
i meant ones that can be put in an ordinarily bars busbar.
yes we do have that type in our panels but that is slightly different in that there is a N bar then the breakers are fed from that then into din rail connectors
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Ive fitted dimmers with them in the, they were hager ones iirc. Standard sized mcb but the the same terminal layout as the SPSN RCBOs.
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