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[Rpa07]

There should now be a button for ‘I feel your pain’!

 

[Wilko]

Showrooms are often terrible, was called out one day to lights tripping MCB, one of the staff had removed a mirror light and had made the wiring safe by taping the L and N wires together.

This was how they wired a load of Click plugs.
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That did make me laugh . Perhaps with the Clicks wired that way it was better the whole lot tripped anyway

 

[pirate]

I may need a tin hat, but...
with small cable sizes it might be ok to put 2 into one wago slot, but why do it?
If you haven't any 4-ways...actually 5 - ways, don't think they do 4-way, why not just fly-lead a 3-way and another 3-way together?
Works for me...

 

[DPG]

It's only ok if the connector being used is designed for it

 

[pirate]

I might daisy-chain 2 wagos...but any more and it's just silly.
I was fitting an outside floodlight the other day and used 3-way wagos, cos you never know when you might like to fit another one, but sometimes it seems that every penny is a prisoner...I hate that!
OK, if you are building 100,000 cars a year, every £ makes a difference, but with the prices nowadays, why not just add £100 to each one? Nobody buys them, they lease them, so the extra cost is negligible. It seems it's ok to use a cheap choc-block if it will never be disturbed, but honestly, for a few pence more...
Oh, I'm just tired...ignore me!

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Another bodge found a while back now. Switch being used to isolate 7.5kw shower

 

[Wilko]

I know it's not the worst thing, but I don't get why some folk will add sleeving like that. It costs nothing and they've had to cut a new bit, so why not the whole thing ?

 

[Wilko]

I know it's a small thing, but I don't get why some folk will add sleeving like that. It costs nothing and they've had to cut a new bit, so why not the whole thing?

 

[Old Tiler 43192]

Called out to a restaurant as the kitchen was tripping out. This is the DB which feeds the restaurant, a sub main to the kitchen and also flats above.

Apart from being horribly imbalanced, not the tidiest of jobs, no grommet strip where the cable go through the case, but on the face of it it looks reasonable, all the socket circuits are RCBO protected etc. until I noticed that the white RCBO earth leads were tucked behind the other wires and not connected to anything so they won't operate as quickly as designed or in the case of an earth fault if the neutral was also lost.

I'm going back to put a new sub main into the kitchen (the existing 63A one is over loaded and tripping the MCB) but I'm dreading doing IR testing on the RCBO protected circuits for when I connect those earth leads as I'm sure there's going to be lots of faults and that's probably why the 'electrician' left them disconnected.

 

[Old Tiler 43192]

Oh well. at least it was sleeved......

 

[pirate]

this one wasn't...

However, you can see I have looked out a grommet to cure the lack of one. The double socket this was connected to was held on by the usual two 3.5.. screws , one short one and one very long one, the latter to drag the squinty-fixed back box from the depths of the wall...and of course there was no earth to the front plate.
Can someone advise me on the likely age of this wiring with its multiple earth wires, 3 per cable? Or is it my eyesight...

 

[Rpa07]

That’s a nice colour wall! Anyone we know, VIPoo by any chance?

this one wasn't...
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However, you can see I have looked out a grommet to cure the lack of one. The double socket this was connected to was held on by the usual two 3.5.. screws , one short one and one very long one, the latter to drag the squinty-fixed back box from the depths of the wall...and of course there was no earth to the front plate.
Can someone advise me on the likely age of this wiring with its multiple earth wires, 3 per cable? Or is it my eyesight...

 

[littlespark]

Can someone advise me on the likely age of this wiring with its multiple earth wires, 3 per cable? Or is it my eyesight...

1960's at a guess. They were onto solid core 2.5 by the 70's

 

[pirate]

Lol! Rpa07...the same VIP as I'm mounting the telly for, but well spotted!
She's in Rome for a few days so I'm taking today off, mainly because I don't like to be drilling, raggling and hammering etc on a Sunday as it would annoy the neighbours.

Thanks, littlespark, I'll note that...1960's...so, not as old as I am!
Wearing better, though...

 

[SparkyChick]

Here's a nice reminder of why you should always try and isolate fuses before pulling them

Thankfully I noticed the second red dot was missing and the screw was loose.

Oh... and it's also a timely reminder about why you should keep a few bits of junk you remove from old installations. Replaced this and a 15A carrier serving a 30A circuit with some spares from an old board I'd removed from a customer property

 

[Rpa07]

And charged them handsomely we trust @SparkyChick, hmmm?

Here's a nice reminder of why you should always try and isolate fuses before pulling them

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Thankfully I noticed the second red dot was missing and the screw was loose.

Oh... and it's also a timely reminder about why you should keep a few bits of junk you remove from old installations. Replaced this and a 15A carrier serving a 30A circuit with some spares from an old board I'd removed from a customer property

Very hard to know when to stop collecting for ‘when I need one’ - until then I’ll keep collecting!

 

[Old Tiler 43192]

And charged them handsomely we trust @SparkyChick, hmmm?

Very hard to know when to stop collecting for ‘when I need one’ - until then I’ll keep collecting!

I use the 4 year rule, if i've not touched/used in in the last 4 years, then I never will and out it goes, usually to a free cycle group or charity.

 

[SparkyChick]

And charged them handsomely we trust @SparkyChick, hmmm?

Very hard to know when to stop collecting for ‘when I need one’ - until then I’ll keep collecting!

It started as a call out for an existing customer because they lost power to the cooker. I think what happened was a bad neutral connection in the cooker switch resulted in surges or something that had slowly cooked the fuse wire causing it to fail. Quick re-termination of that and change the fuse carriers and the job has yielded contact details for another family member with an electrical fault, a request for a quote to replace that old fuse box which carries with it the need to do something about other parts of the installation (like replace an elderly VOELCB) and the possibility of another checking out the British Legion in Newport. All in all quite a productive call out

 

[Old Tiler 43192]

Attended a rented house today where they'd had half the lights not working for the last few weeks, ever since the new shower had been installed over the bath.......

 

[pirate]

Oops! Nice wall light!
Nice pic, SparkyChic! I love pulling fuses...only thing I can pull these days...