Maybe one for the trainees and improvers out there, what is wrong here?

The Ghost · Sep 17, 2017

So what is wrong with this picture? What do you think you should do about it? It is really amazing the things people do with electrics!

[ElectriciansForums.net] Maybe one for the trainees and improvers out there, what is wrong here?

Rpa07 · Sep 18, 2017

JK-Electrical said:
Boy oh boy. Whoever committed this atrocity should be arrested by the electrical police and charged with aggravated botchery.

I saw what you did there! Nice!

The Ghost · Sep 18, 2017

I think they are currently resisting charges.

ED17 · Sep 18, 2017

All I can see wrong is that the switch and socket need a good clean!

dmxtothemax · Sep 18, 2017

Bit hard to be sure , the pic's not that good,
but it looks like neutral is connected to ground
Blue wire on right side goes to black wire
which then appears to go to the green on left side.

The Ghost · Sep 18, 2017

So you have a neutral for the lighting connected to the earth on the socket and to the 2.5 earth!

Wilko · Sep 18, 2017

Vortigern said:
So you have a neutral for the lighting connected to the earth on the socket and to the 2.5 earth!

Another fun find if you'd been RCDing the installation

DPG · Sep 18, 2017

And the lighting fed straight from the socket and presumably fused at 30/32A ?

The Ghost · Sep 18, 2017

DPG said:
And the lighting fed straight from the socket

Well the neutral is with a crossed earth to neutral on the next lighting circuit. So it was fused by what is in the picture. (see below) now it is on a 32a for sockets and 6a for the lighting with new cabling in. None of it trips...so far fingers crossed. Readings on socket circuit are around 10Mohm so okayish.