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 !

 

[stanleyblade]

Unfortunately he is not registered with any bodies, otherwise I would, he is same ss me, a kitchen fitter. Only difference is one of us takes electrical work very seriously the other does not. Today he even had the cheek to say he may bill the customer for tidying the job up, this sort of thing is what quite rightly gets kitchen fitters a bad Nans. Needless to say, I have corrected everything , and will not take pñ anymore work from him. Ive done two AMD thats enough, dont want to be pulled under with him

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[Strima]

Not my fault but spotted in the local Harvester type place a month ago and still hasn't been repaired, hidden under some play matting in the childrens area...

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Apparently the maintenance team are 'aware' of it... Quick email to their head office I think.

Apparently this has been sorted now, best go down to have a look.

 

[worldtraveler]

i cant set with one girl.....

 

[Paddy power 250]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

I a similar problem, but at 3am on a call out. The tenant had no power, so I attended and went through the routine of turning the circuits on one by one, then all the others things, you like appliances. But this one circuit would not go back on, well I finally found it a slug inside a double socket across the live and earth. Removed all power back on. Would they believe me the next day. NO

 

[Tonkatoy27]

Fault I logged on an EICR yesterday, the room stat cable left the airing cupboard in 3core and earth and ended up at the room stat in 2 pair telephone cable. I couldn't get a dial tone though.......

 

[Konrad]

Yes Sir. MCB is tripping because there is some fault on your lights. Let me have closer look.

 

[Bobster]

50mm 4 core SWA feeding a 3ph DB not even glanded into the bottom of the fuse panel supplying it, earth continuity to the DB via the tenby clamp. Not to mention the neutral that was extended by bolting another piece of cable to it.

Why do people install things like this??? It would have probably been quicker to just do it correctly in the first place.

 

[Silly Sausage]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Three of these found in my friend's house today, installed by a 'Qualified' electrician.

 

[Strima]

At least he's taped it up... :confused5:

 

[stanleyblade]

Not my fault... Was in screwfix perusing the catalogue, when I overhear a little old lady ask " IP4X, what does that mean?" And a mans voice replied " it is to do with the type of bulb it takes I think" I turned round to see who it was she wad talking to and it was one of the electrafix staff !! How reassuring

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[Strima]

Not my fault... Was in screwfix perusing the catalogue, when I overhear a little old lady ask " IP4X, what does that mean?" And a mans voice replied " it is to do with the type of bulb it takes I think" I turned round to see who it was she wad talking to and it was one of the electrafix staff !! How reassuring

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Same company that owns the big orange shed, that explains a lot...

Only bonus is that the local screwfix branch knows me so I don't have to do that 1p card thing on the click and collect.

 

[stanleyblade]

1p card thing wassat? I even stood behind some woman few months ago in scrrwfix who wanted cooker cable, the counter woman was looking at the catalogue saying you probably need some kind of flat cable for That. I asked her if she had any info on cooker but it was at home, so told her to go get it and then pop into qvs elec supplies few doors down and they would sort her out.makes you wonder how many people get " advised " like this

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[rich.250]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdaKBMD_HSQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Is this the crap that people call testing......... LOL

 

[stanleyblade]

Following on from post 919, same job same guy I found this on boiler cupboard with cables running tightly against central heating pipes behind boxing in. Is last job I do for John Wayne inc .

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[skyneel]

Hi frnds my main fault is I am lazy. I can't do work very quickly. I think it is my fault of my life. What you think frndz. Can it be a great problem in my life? How can I recover this?

 

[Cartersparks]

Rcd tripping out when supply to porter cabin mcb turned on! Ins res test between all conductors clear, disconnected all cpc's in cabin board and tripping stops, turns out the swa was damaged live to armouring, only the cabin side of the swa had the swa bonded to earth, fault current found a path bk to the cabin to the bonded metal socket ko box's making its way to the earth terminal in the board on to the 6mm earth bond on the bango and back to the supply db tripping the 30ma rcd!!!
To resolve this as the live now was common with the armour, the live had to become the earth and be taped up green yellow and the earth be taped up brown. quick fix i know but only a temp fix

 

[Guest22]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

3.3 KV motor ran by induction regulator, was told the motor was arcing up a storm!
Proceeded to open up the motor and look inside, all new brushes had chipped and broken away, creating a wavy commutator, where the brushes lie, leaving about 2-3 mm difference along the comm, sent away to re skimmed.

The picture in question the motor stands about 8-10 feet tall.

 

[Knobhead]

What HP is it Ethan?

I've only worked on small induction regulated motors, up to 50HP. Never did like them.

 

[aprillove1719]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

during my college years, i accidentally enter to a wrong classroom, listen to the class and took a quiz.... when I passed my paper, the instructor asked me "Hi are you my student?" hahahaha oh my God only to find out i enter the seniors class... :rofl:

 

[trev]

Electrical Inspection poplar Business Park - YouTube

Is this the crap that people call testing......... LOL

That is a joke. IR testing needs to be done dead but no mention of it for RFC continuity. His safe isolation procedure leaves an awful lot to be desired. Maybe he needs to dance the 230/400 tango to teach him to do it properly