Tell us about your faults!

kung · Nov 30, 2009

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 !

Stroppy · Mar 25, 2013

No pictures, but today I had to try to unravel 9 lighting 1mm T+E's going into a pile of junction boxes which didn't work (or rather did, as the switches were ineffective and the lights were on all the time). Some browns snipped off, some blues snipped off. Most baffling. Anyway I thought I'd tackle it logically and buzz everything out, using the CPC as a known path to complete the circuit, but noooo, some utter c*** has cut them all off. Makes me ***ing fume....

rmc86uk · Mar 25, 2013

Carpe Diem said:
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Here is an interesting way to connect up your down-lights. Just part of an installation where green and pink insulated (for 12 V?) but unsheathed wires were used variously for Line, Neutral and CPC. Had to pull the lot and rewire.

As long as it works!

Silly Sausage · Mar 25, 2013

Carpe Diem said:
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I thought our Lofty hadn't posted any pictures of his work yet?

Barry Cade · Mar 25, 2013

Bet client/customer said "I didn't do it"

Carpe Diem · Mar 26, 2013

You are right - said they didn't do it. But I believe them as they've just moved in a few months ago and this looked like it had been around a while. Apparently the last owner was a builder who did the electrics himself!

Barry Cade · Mar 26, 2013

well he did use junction boxes and not open terminal blocks ha!

Barry Cade · Mar 26, 2013

did they claim money back off sale for getting shoddy work sorted

Stroppy · Mar 26, 2013

Barry Cade said:
well he did use junction boxes and not open terminal blocks ha!

Vastly over-engineered. Twist-and-tape is the way forward for a new Britain (or Poland).

Barry Cade · Mar 26, 2013

stroppy how do you get my original quote in a speech bubble on top of your quote matey

Stroppy · Mar 26, 2013

Click "reply with quote"

Everything within the [quote ] and [/quote ] tags appears in the speech bubble.

Barry Cade · Mar 26, 2013

Stroppy said:
Click "reply with quote" Everything within the [quote ] and [/quote ] tags appears in the speech bubble.

just practicing

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hey it works HA!

ayjay · Mar 26, 2013

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Robotstar5 · Mar 31, 2013

Recently had to do a bit of fault finding on a couple of machines, the panel's a bit of a mess

Like most of the equipment it's fed with SWA, even if it's on wheels!

Another panel, note the DIN mount PSU lying in bottom of enclosure

monkeyelectric · Mar 31, 2013

Robotstar5 said:
Recently had to do a bit of fault finding on a couple of machines, the panel's a bit of a mess

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Like most of the equipment it's fed with SWA, even if it's on wheels!

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Another panel, note the DIN mount PSU lying in bottom of enclosure

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For the time it takes to make it look tidy why the hell do people leave things like this! I would be embarassed to leave an abomination like that

Robotstar5 · Mar 31, 2013

monkeyelectric said:
For the time it takes to make it look tidy why the hell do people leave things like this! I would be embarassed to leave an abomination like that

Unfortunately the people who buy the equipment try to find the cheapest second hand kit that can be modified (bodged) to do the job, it rarely comes with drawings so fault finding means pulling cables out to trace them.