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.