I'm thinking of suing can he go bankrupt?

[Julie.]

Hasn't he just wired the incoming and outgoing cables straight across the fuses rather than through the isolator?

Yes

So the fuses are always live and the only way to switch off at that "isolator" is either blow the fuse or physically disconnect the live conductors!!!

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

On a recent job to fit a TP meter, i went to the local site isolator, turned it off and walked back to the site and low and beyond the power was still on...... opened the isolator cover to find exactly what the OP had.
I , a bit like the OP, not easily disturbed but i was so surprised to find ANYONE would actually wire an isolator that way that i could not rest until i had formally informed the duty holder, got him to confirm all site electricians were aware of it and begged for it to be sorted, unfortunately the whole extended site needed to be turned off as the incoming tails were feed from main busbar. Anyway all sorted and i managed to fit the meter, .........

Amazes me how they get away with it, call themselves SPARKS....hmmmm....I wouldn't be able to hold my head up high if I knew I couldn't do a job properly, why do they take on a job if they know they can't handle it? Either damn stupid or so full of their self esteem. Pride comes before a fall eh...or maybe a dead person!!!!

 

[Rockingit]

Amazes me how they get away with it, call themselves SPARKS....hmmmm....I wouldn't be able to hold my head up high if I knew I couldn't do a job properly, why do they take on a job if they know they can't handle it? Either damn stupid or so full of their self esteem. Pride comes before a fall eh...or maybe a dead person!!!!

Sadly, the tip of the iceberg. Don't get us started on how it's actually possible to spend as little as a week in a classroom, take a 40 question multiple choice/guess online quiz that my dog could pass (I'm not going to call it an exam!) - with ZERO prior experience - and then tout yourself as an 'electrician'......... A subject so divisive we've a gentlemans/moderators agreement to stop discussing them on here!!

 

[littlespark]

A subject so divisive we've a gentlemans/moderators agreement to stop discussing them on here!!

That's gone a bit Schrodingers Cat, hasnt it???

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

Sadly, the tip of the iceberg. Don't get us started on how it's actually possible to spend as little as a week in a classroom, take a 40 question multiple choice/guess online quiz that my dog could pass (I'm not going to call it an exam!) - with ZERO prior experience - and then tout yourself as an 'electrician'......... A subject so divisive we've a gentlemans/moderators agreement to stop discussing them on here!!

REALLY.....I might apply then!!! hahaha.

 

[OMGAMISTUFFED]

That's gone a bit Schrodingers Cat, hasnt it???

Way above my head! I'm going to have to look that up now....hahaha WHOA....HEAVY..... If you left the cat long enough it would stink...definitely DEAD!

 

[plugsandsparks]

Couple of pics for a spot the difference between op and this one...You never see one and then two come along in a year... lol. I took a pic of the lugs behind the barrier to show where they should be connected. BTW, this was done live with my phone cam eeekkk

 

[littlespark]

Maybe the cat wasn’t the best analogy.

To discuss something to say we shouldn’t discuss that something?????

Oh yeah. The first rule of Fight Club

 

[ipf]

Couple of pics for a spot the difference between op and this one...You never see one and then two come along in a year... lol. I took a pic of the lugs behind the barrier to show where they should be connected. BTW, this was done live with my phone cam eeekkk

You should have taken that cover shield off so people could have a good look, then. It makes the DANGER sign look a bit idiotic, eh?
Or do you mean you connected it up live? It wouldn't surprise me if some interpreted it that way.

 

[plugsandsparks]

I was there to fit a meter some 250M away, this isolator was in the Sub, directly connected to the main site busbars, for info, the upsteam protection was 1000A MCCB. I wanted to know why when i switched the isolator off, there was still power to the part of the site i needed to fit the meter. The whole site had to be shut down to rectify. I only had permission to shut down the part i was working on. The photos were taken because i suspected no one would believe me...

 

[nicebutdim]

Amazes me how they get away with it, call themselves SPARKS....hmmmm....I wouldn't be able to hold my head up high if I knew I couldn't do a job properly, why do they take on a job if they know they can't handle it? Either damn stupid or so full of their self esteem. Pride comes before a fall eh...or maybe a dead person!!!!

It's likely the electrician in question didn't know they couldn't do the job properly and ploughed on in blissful ignorance.