Tell us about your faults!

[kung]

Hi ALL
Just thought id put this one up for all those faults we find.
heres one to kick it off !
Domestic RCD tripped and wouldnt reset cause was a blown low energy light bulb.
There you go now for yours !

 

[greavo]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

The intelligent ones are the most dangerous.. They seem to lack common sense. :iagree:

 

[ringer]

What is the IP rating of this head?

 

[Dunc]

What is the IP rating of this head?

IP 1X maybe. Depends if the hole in the picture is less then 50mm wide, i'd say it was close to having no IP rating at all!

 

[brucelee]

ip2x for the front whats damaged so it fails as you can get your finger in 12mm

 

[kung]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Domestic RCD tripped and wouldnt reset cause was a blown low energy light bulb

As my opening post ! had a few of these little gems !

 

[sparkie710]

when using old 3 core make sure you keep an eye out for the yellow core. nightmare job because the electrician threw that in with the earth :|

 

[zeljuga]

Re: Local barn fuse box???

County internet Arial sup lay.

 

[Mr.Si]

Lol... Not quite how you would install a breaker!

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[tc50]

doing rcd tests today on up and down ring circuits ie separate rcd units with newish newlec multifunction tester with x half ok no trip x 5 ok less than 40 m/secs but x1 tester tripped rcd but no reading less than 200 m/secs due to safety device built into meter indicating test stopped due to greater than 50v present possibly across n to e have lost manual so dont quite know what it means ,any bright sparks out there ?

 

[vernam616]

A neutral to earth fault by any chance?

 

[astormatt]

Did you unplug everything out of the circuits before testing?
How were the circuits fed? RCBO's, MCB on a split board with rcd for each bank?

 

[tc50]

on both circuits on seperate rcds on new rewire ....they dont call me unlucky for nothing then do they lol

 

[tc50]

dual split load seperate rcd s for each up an down ring

 

[daiplayer]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Wow; an honest to God thoroughly decent bloke. If he is a member of this forum. he has my vote.

I second that

 

[tony mc]

Call from friend (Tennent) who returned from holiday to find power off on sockets and freezer flooded room.

Just been re wired but landlord unable to get the spark who did the work.

Asked to sort the matter out.

Found fault where joiner put screw into cables while installing cabnet enclosing CU and meter.

Thats a dado rail above the ring final cct cables where the cables run and the CU is a bit of a mess with a old cable left in for the shower!

I have told them not to hang any pictures or shelves just in case!!!

 

[cdavies33]

The spark that did that rewire should consider a new profession to be honest, if that the job he did on the board.... God know what the rest of the place looks like, its embrassing

 

[Dom.]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Jan 2007. HTC in MK. When the sparkies came round to change lamps they couldn't get the wall uplighters in the reception to work for love nor money.

Lifted up the ceiling tiles, traced the wiring, used a test probe...
Then someone looked at the actual bulbs (BC, or ES) and they weren't 240V there were 15V or some odd voltage. Doh!

 

[isitnow]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

hahahaha sellotape!

did some remedial work in a shop once twin and earth was sellotaped to the wall

 

[adam.h]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

did some remedial work in a shop once twin and earth was sellotaped to the wall

Double sided sellotape works and looks better, you cant see it

 

[FAA Greenie]

Good evening guys,

Went to a house during the week to fit a shower circuit and put a light into the loft at the same time. As I entered the loft I was confronted by the attached photo's. now, first off, I know the 'volt-sticks' are not reliable dead testers, however, they are handy for quick checks of cables for anything nasty that needs testing further and I always have one in my pocket. At first glance, I thought to ask the client when I saw her next if she just wanted me to cut it down and get rid. At second glance I got out the volt stick out of habit and held it up to the exposed and corroded copper showing through the perished rubber.

I nearly fell through the ceiling when the volt stick lit up like a christmas tree and beeped it's tone at me!!!

What isn't shown on the photo's is that the cable runs through a partition into next doors loft. I have to admit that the porcelain insulator got me worried, though the small size if the the crumbling cable connected to it confused me (looks like 2.5mm).

I went down and switched off at the mains to see if anything was still on it only to find that it showed dead with the volt stick. OK, go get the long lead and megger MFT out, test, still dead. Turn the power back on and the upstairs lighting and sockets only, MFT shows near enough 100v and the volt stick goes mad again. Isolate socket cct and same thing.

Upstairs lighting cct has no earthing ( CU is labelled correctly), and I then thought to check the 1.5mm I had laid into the loft for the lighting cct and clipped most of the way, with the volt stick and even though it was connected at neither end, got a result.

Is this a common thing? I can only assume that with a lack of earth to absorb any induced voltage that the whole lighting circuit is inducing a standing voltage into anything it comes accross?