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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:

 

[Mikegh]

i have 3 of them in my toolbag. 1 is slightly different.it has a forked business end, so in a bunch of conductors, as you sometimes get in multiple switches. it don't pickupfrom adjacent cables. you just put the forked bit over the suspect conductor.

I keep 2 and usually prove them on the supply so to speak before use

I'll be getting this single point contact tester that's available asap, it will be invaluable

 

[MJPD29]

easywy. switch off what you think is the OCPD. plug in kettle. if you ain't got tea within 5 minutes, it' proven dead. 9unless , of course, the kettle is FUBAR, then it's guess again.

Always keep your kettle calibrated

 

[brianmoooore]

Prove a voltstick by rubbing them on your sleeve to generate a bit of static.

 

[telectrix]

Prove a voltstick by rubbing them on your sleeve to generate a bit of static.

or chuck it upin the air. when it bounces it lights up.

 

[Simon47]

easywy. switch off what you think is the OCPD. plug in kettle. if you ain't got tea within 5 minutes, it' proven dead. 9unless , of course, the kettle is FUBAR, then it's guess again.

I got caught out by something along those lines many years ago. Amongst other things, I managed the phones at my then employer - and on this occasion I didn't have my butt set* to hand (I think I'd either been using it at home, or lent it to someone), so I had to use an ordinary phone to test a line we were having problems with. Unfortunately, the phone I picked up was faulty, so I incorrectly diagnosed the line as faulty ?

* Butt set is a term used for an engineer's (or linesman's) phone which is designed for testing lines rather than for conversations, so has some different/extra functions and a form factor more useful to the task than a typical phone.

 

[LewisM]

If you don't have a three phase MCB make your own, very dangerous

 

[westward10]

That isn't much different to individual fuses.

 

[LewisM]

That isn't much different to individual fuses.

True but if one trips and DIY Dave starts to play around thinking everything is off then you could get a nice zap

 

[westward10]

True but if one trips and DIY Dave starts to play around thinking everything is off then you could get a nice zap

Ah you see that's where you need a volt stick?

 

[Mikegh]

Don't shoot the voltstick

 

[Dustydazzler]

I have across the old 3 seperate mcbs for a make shift 3 phase circuit quite a few times

I have even come across mixed sizes like 2 x 20s and 1 x 32

 

[Fazz711]

Cables live even with iso off.
Going to dodgy old style three phase plug.
Then out into SY cable.

All about to be removed and aux out going to the virtually empty DB above

Not even tried to put the live singles into the tray work

 

[westward10]

Don't shoot the voltstick

I don't I use them every day.

 

[ipf]

True but if one trips and DIY Dave starts to play around thinking everything is off then you could get a nice zap

I'd say that's Dave's fault. He shouldn't be playing about with it anyway, especially 400v 3 phase.
Loads of them in domestic, we know. There's more and more getting involved with commercial and industrial.... scary stuff.

I always use TP breakers but there's nothing wrong with 3 cartridge fuses. Millions of those perfectly decent circuits in operation.

 

[ipf]

I don't I use them every day.

I did find my last one useful but after it packed in I just never bothered getting another.

 

[ipf]

Found this today, back to back switches.
Could have warmed his hands on the wall. Black nicked on screwhead.
Both earths cut back, God knows why?




Picking up from the other side of the wall

 

[brianmoooore]

I don't think those boxes have a terminal to connect a cpc to. They are pre cpc metal back boxes, with insulated threaded blocks for the switch fixing screws.
I had a box of 100 Crabtree brass earthing terminals that I used to update the likes of these.

 

[ipf]

I don't think those boxes have a terminal to connect a cpc to. They are pre cpc metal back boxes, with insulated threaded blocks for the switch fixing screws.
I had a box of 100 Crabtree brass earthing terminals that I used to update the likes of these.

Well spotted, but why not use a connector or something. The main problem came with breaking the cpc. Half the circuit wasn't earthed (incl fluorescents)...linked the 2 earths and it was, so cutting 'em back broke the line.
Sod of a job.

 

[brianmoooore]

why not use a connector or something.

Because that would have required a modicum of intelligence, and a little pride in their work from whoever wired it.

 

[ipf]

Because that would have required a modicum of intelligence, and a little pride in their work from whoever wired it.

I think I might just understand that. ?