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Here's a good one for you.

The customer wanted his C.U moved so he informed me UKPN Had just been before me to move the meter on the opposite wall.

He had broke into the Ryefield downstairs (block of flats) , pulled his fuse and cut the sub main conduit with a grinder and folded it back on itself to give it length.
In the process cutting the earth and tucking it back inside the pipe.

I had to report the guy cause what he was doing was gon a get someone killed!!

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Cadgey123 said:
Here's a good one for you.

The customer wanted his C.U moved so he informed me UKPN Had just been before me to move the meter on the opposite wall.

He had broke into the Ryefield downstairs (block of flats) , pulled his fuse and cut the sub main conduit with a grinder and folded it back on itself to give it length.
In the process cutting the earth and tucking it back inside the pipe.

I had to report the guy cause what he was doing was gon a get someone killed!!

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Bin bag around the CU, bit of tape around the socket & the jobs a goodun, 1000 percent safety improvement & at minimal cost. What more can you ask for ?:rolleyes:;):D. I'll just get my coat :(
 
Not me! The circuit is redundant and the cables were cut off at each end but left in the trunking. The wire was damaged and the copper is almost blown through, I wonder if it was run like that. Someone else had removed the soot mark from the cable.
 
Testing today with Wanda, I found a light with no cpc. Then the fun to find the problem - cpc at the CU and in the light and in the switch, but not joined up - must be a dodgy jb I thought. Found an ugly one, but not the problem. Isolated it down to the 5m cable run up to the light so I just replaced it. Stripped the old cable and found missing section of cpc ... a new one for me :)

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Wilko said:
Testing today with Wanda, I found a light with no cpc. Then the fun to find the problem - cpc at the CU and in the light and in the switch, but not joined up - must be a dodgy jb I thought. Found an ugly one, but not the problem. Isolated it down to the 5m cable run up to the light so I just replaced it. Stripped the old cable and found missing section of cpc ... a new one for me :)


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That's a novel one, well found buddy :thumbsup:
 
Every tool or bit of kit needs a name,when my youngest son used to help me long before starting his apprenticeship maybe on a Saturday morning for an hour or two[probably around 10-12 years old at the time] I'd give the tools a name to aid recognition, the bradawl to this day is Bradley Wiggins then we have Paddy the padsaw, Percy the pliers and my favourite MC Hammer to name just a few. :D
 
I fitted a DB a while back, it had an RCBO it it, and in the RCBO box was the usual information sticker, It wasn't until yesterday until I actually read what it said. The new type RCBOs are not supplied with a sticker any more.
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Replacing another DB in the same place, the old one seems to have suffered a small burnout where someone forgot to do up the neutral test link.
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In the same board the main switch was replaced with an RCD at some point, outgoing neutral was connected to the neutral bar with 3 cores from the inside of a 2.5mm armour. Quality from start to finish.
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Nice boards Merlin, the new Schneider are nothing in comparison, look pretty on the outside but poorly designed. The idiot that thought putting the earth bars in layers needs a good kicking, especially when it comes to the larger boards that have 3 layers! Saying that I'd rather fit one of these than the flimsy Hager 3ph boards.
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I'm part way through with the replacement, but need to fit the correct meter add on kit as the one supplied is wrong, Fortunately the 35mm supply armour had loads of slack so I was able to leave the conductors long ready for the correct meter. Still some bits to alter and labels to add etc.
 
freddo said:
Replacing another DB in the same place, the old one seems to have suffered a small burnout where someone forgot to do up the neutral test link.
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In the same board the main switch was replaced with an RCD at some point, outgoing neutral was connected to the neutral bar with 3 cores from the inside of a 2.5mm armour. Quality from start to finish.
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Nice boards Merlin, the new Schneider are nothing in comparison, look pretty on the outside but poorly designed. The idiot that thought putting the earth bars in layers needs a good kicking, especially when it comes to the larger boards that have 3 layers! Saying that I'd rather fit one of these than the flimsy Hager 3ph boards.
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I'm part way through with the replacement, but need to fit the correct meter add on kit as the one supplied is wrong, Fortunately the 35mm supply armour had loads of slack so I was able to leave the conductors long ready for the correct meter. Still some bits to alter and labels to add etc.
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Get shot of those cable ties look bloody awful
 
There is less air space in the trunking. The last control panel I built I laced the door wiring. Had to build it over the recent bank holiday weekend ready to install on the Tuesday and couldn't get hold of small slotted trunking in time. The last time I had to do lacing was over 5 years ago.
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FFS. I shake my head with despair every time I walk past this socket.
Lucky though, the old type MK sockets are one of the few designs you can directly insert one of those weedy euro plugs without manually opening the shutter, and can remove the plug again without breaking the shutter as it catches on the pins end caps. The new MK sockets have dimples in the rotating shutter to stop euro plugs opening them.

I've just thought, are europlugs designed to be connected to circuits with 30A 3036 fuses?!
 
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