RCD tripping on lighting circuit when lamps (bulbs) are put into light fittings

[heartofgold]

Hi,
Lighting circuit trips the RCD.
took out all the lamps and it holds. Put any lamp back into any light on the circuit and it trips. All but one of the light fittings on the circuit are Class 1.

Any advice gratefully received

hog

 

[Silly Sausage]

No, 76, I would have still just about been legal to interfere with 'miners'.

 

[Geordie Spark]

We'll thank you all for your responses. I'm just home from the job and found the fault behind a Class 1 fitting where the connector block neutral had melted onto the back of the casing. Then I had to fix out the stramash in the two way switches. All sorted now and the install buttoned down and tested.

Apologies for for not responding to all your online splaff but I was too busy making money. How do you guys have so much time to chat on this forum?

Some of us are Gentlemen of leisure and some are retired old gits.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Geordie being corrected by Archie,whatever next lol

I agree with Geordie I reckon it was 76 when the miners came out

Aye well ... I'm still not sure of the year bt it doesn't matter.

It was a stinking hot summer though, and my mate and I worked directly under a glass skylight and the heat was unbearable.

My mate found a bucket of white paint and some brushes one morning so he and I went up on the roof to paint the skylight over. We spent all day up there !!

 

[Silly Sausage]

How do you guys have so much time to chat on this forum?

Some of us are Gentlemen of leisure and some are retired old gits.

1: there's always time!
2: it's cheaper than using the phone.
3: unlike the phone, don't have to answer straight away.
3: where else would you meet such a nice bunch of loonies?

 

[7029 dave]

And some of us just go like the wind or is it gone with the wind?:snore:

 

[Silly Sausage]

And some of us just go like the wind or is it pi$$ing in the wind?:snore:

Fixed....

 

[Geordie Spark]

And some of us just go like the wind or is it gone with the wind?:snore:

And others among us have dreadful wind.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Geordie being corrected by Archie,whatever next lol

I agree with Geordie I reckon it was 76 when the miners came out

I'm not very well ........... I literally fell through the door of the docs surgery at 7-30 yesterday morning. Got some meds but I'm still not quite on form just now.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Geordie being corrected by Archie,whatever next lol

He got me on my spelling recently so I've got to get back!

 

[telectrix]

but fit enough to drive a MR2 from nottingham. hmmmmm.

 

[telectrix]

Geordie being corrected by Archie,whatever next lol

I agree with Geordie I reckon it was 76 when the miners came out

if i rem. correct it was '73. joe gormley was trheir leader then.

 

[Geordie Spark]

but fit enough to drive a MR2 from nottingham. hmmmmm.

That was BEFORE I fell poorly. rrr:

 

[Geordie Spark]

if i rem. correct it was '73. joe gormley was trheir leader then.

Aye .. that was '73 when they socked it to Ted Heath and that's why Thatcher had to have her revenge in '84.

That really hot summer was '76 or '77 though.



In '73 I was working at another place and because of the Miners' Strike, everywhere was working the 3 day week and we were supposed to as well, but the boss said we had our own generator and we did too. It was a little thing powered by a Lister diesel like what drives a builder's cement mixer.

The boss had this little genny parked outside at the reception door and there was a bit of flex from the genny threaded through the letter box and attached to a lamp holder in the reception area. The lamp holder had a 40 watt lamp / bulb in it which flickered dimly.

The rest of the factory carried on regardless because we were on the same feeder as the hospital up the road, so unlike other factories the supply was never switched off.

Anyone passing would hear the putt putt of the genny and see the dim light flickering an leave us alone.

 

[Des 56]

if i rem. correct it was '73. joe gormley was trheir leader then.

By gum thou art reet lad

 

[Silly Sausage]

Indeedly, early 70s for the power cuts, still a young whipper snapper at school then you old farties!
77 was definitely a hot summer.

 

[telectrix]

if i can recall, at the time, a coal face worker earned 4 times as much as a qualified spark. seems not much has changed. but now it's plumbers.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Hahaha...I remember them saying on telly, we can't have us huge beef joints anymore, have to make do on mince.
Mince, mince, bloody luxury!

 

[Geordie Spark]

if i can recall, at the time, a coal face worker earned 4 times as much as a qualified spark. seems not much has changed. but now it's plumbers.

That's true Tel, but would you have swapped places with the miner?

 

[Geordie Spark]

Hahaha...I remember them saying on telly, we can't have us huge beef joints anymore, have to make do on mince.
Mince, mince, bloody luxury!

Stop it with the mince ....... you're reminding me of my son. :32:

 

[longboat]

That'll have been 77, when God Save the Queen came out, happy days!

Ahh, good old seventy seven.
I still say that was the year that made me.
After what seemed like forever my family were'nt surprised when i came out.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Stop it with the mince ....... you're reminding me of my son. :32:

Sorry G!
Got to say, I don't think I've seen someone publicly spill such venom for one of their offspring in public!
Got any pictures?

 

[longboat]

Sorry G!
Got to say, I don't think I've seen someone publicly spill such venom for one of their offspring in public!
Got any pictures?

I prefer, nay insist, on "publicly" spilling such venom in private..

 

[Geordie Spark]

Sorry G!
Got to say, I don't think I've seen someone publicly spill such venom for one of their offspring in public!
Got any pictures?

Yes, but they're pinned to the dartboard.

 

[telectrix]

if you want venom, i'll introduce you to my ex. (nee medusa)

 

[Geordie Spark]

if i can recall, at the time, a coal face worker earned 4 times as much as a qualified spark. seems not much has changed. but now it's plumbers.

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]So Sherlock Holmes and his mate Dr. Watson are enjoying a holiday somewhere in the West Country and after an enjoyable but strenuous days exploring the glorious country side are getting ready to turn into their beds at an extremely luxurious hotel where they were sharing a room.[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]In those days, en-suite bathrooms were unheard of, and each landing of the hotel had a bathroom at each end of it. [/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Holmes went to the bathroom first and after returning to the room it was Watson's turn.[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Soon after, Watson returned to the room in a state of great excitement exclaiming “I say Holmes .. I've just seen the most amazing thing.As I was approaching the bathroom something came out and I haven't a clue what it was!”[/FONT]


“Well” .. says Holmes .. “ Suppose you tell me what you saw”.


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Watson says: “It was a small black creature, about five foot two inches and it was walking upright on its hind legs, but the thing I noticed which I thought most strange was it had an erection which was completely white. All the rest of it was as black as pitch except for this white erection”[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Holmes thought for a bit then said: “It's elementary my dear Watson …what you have seen is a Welsh coal miner on honeymoon!”[/FONT]

 

[tidyboiler]

Stop it with the mince ....... you're reminding me of my son. :32:

Which one? :lipsrsealed2:

 

[GLENNSPARK]

OUCH., it's a harley.

it could be worse:

 

[Guest111]

I can't handle anyone looking over my shoulder either
I also stop,but I don't gaze around,I put the tools down,turn to face them.fold my arms and look them in the eye and wait for battle of the eye contact to conclude
No words,no moaning

I had a few jobs for our asian friends and they always watched you,then they'd be doing it themselves a week later,so what I used to do was put a few wires in the wrong terminals,enough to produce a decent bang,then when they disappeared connect them up correctly.I'd love to have been there when they wired something the way they'd seen me do it,then see the look on their face when they switched on and got a loud bang.

 

[Jurassic Spark]

I had a few jobs for our asian friends and they always watched you,then they'd be doing it themselves a week later,so what I used to do was put a few wires in the wrong terminals,enough to produce a decent bang,then when they disappeared connect them up correctly.I'd love to have been there when they wired something the way they'd seen me do it,then see the look on their face when they switched on and got a loud bang.

That's just evil. Wish I'd have thought of it.

 

[ged noden]

Has any water leaked onto the particular lamp in question? could take days to dry out.