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So we had a powercut at home last night, overnight. Took my tired brain a few minutes to work it out, though, as a whole bunch of downlights, device electronics (washing machine controls, google hub, sky router, oven timer....) etc all stayed on but 'unhappy'. I first thought it might have been a surge from lightning as there was some around but then after flipping some breakers off and checking that the digital meter was actually also dead, I realised that that the incoming L must have still been live but the N broken, the resultant path for enough current to make all these micro-amp devices still 'work' was the PME.
Sod's law says that only hours before I'd left ALL my tools and test gear securely on site for the weekend in London as I couldn't be doing with a 14hr day on a Friday AND three flights of stairs, so I couldn't prove my theory, but I isolated at the main breaker, rang the DNO to report it and went to bed having dug out some candles.
Sod's law says that only hours before I'd left ALL my tools and test gear securely on site for the weekend in London as I couldn't be doing with a 14hr day on a Friday AND three flights of stairs, so I couldn't prove my theory, but I isolated at the main breaker, rang the DNO to report it and went to bed having dug out some candles.