Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

Darkwood · Mar 21, 2015

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

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[ElectriciansForums.net] Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!

I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago.

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Mikegh · Jul 14, 2021

telectrix said:
i have 3 of them in my toolbag. 1 is slightly different.it has a forked business end, so in a bunch of conductors, as you sometimes get in multiple switches. it don't pickupfrom adjacent cables. you just put the forked bit over the suspect conductor.

I keep 2 and usually prove them on the supply so to speak before use

I'll be getting this single point contact tester that's available asap, it will be invaluable

MJPD29 · Jul 14, 2021

telectrix said:
easywy. switch off what you think is the OCPD. plug in kettle. if you ain't got tea within 5 minutes, it' proven dead. 9unless , of course, the kettle is FUBAR, then it's guess again.

Always keep your kettle calibrated

brianmoooore · Jul 14, 2021

Prove a voltstick by rubbing them on your sleeve to generate a bit of static.

telectrix · Jul 14, 2021

brianmoooore said:
Prove a voltstick by rubbing them on your sleeve to generate a bit of static.

or chuck it upin the air. when it bounces it lights up.

Simon47 · Jul 15, 2021

telectrix said:
easywy. switch off what you think is the OCPD. plug in kettle. if you ain't got tea within 5 minutes, it' proven dead. 9unless , of course, the kettle is FUBAR, then it's guess again.

I got caught out by something along those lines many years ago. Amongst other things, I managed the phones at my then employer - and on this occasion I didn't have my butt set* to hand (I think I'd either been using it at home, or lent it to someone), so I had to use an ordinary phone to test a line we were having problems with. Unfortunately, the phone I picked up was faulty, so I incorrectly diagnosed the line as faulty ?

* Butt set is a term used for an engineer's (or linesman's) phone which is designed for testing lines rather than for conversations, so has some different/extra functions and a form factor more useful to the task than a typical phone.

LewisM · Jul 15, 2021

If you don't have a three phase MCB make your own, very dangerous

westward10 · Jul 15, 2021

That isn't much different to individual fuses.

LewisM · Jul 15, 2021

westward10 said:
That isn't much different to individual fuses.

True but if one trips and DIY Dave starts to play around thinking everything is off then you could get a nice zap

westward10 · Jul 15, 2021

LewisM said:
True but if one trips and DIY Dave starts to play around thinking everything is off then you could get a nice zap

Ah you see that's where you need a volt stick?

Mikegh · Jul 15, 2021

Don't shoot the voltstick

Dustydazzler · Jul 15, 2021

I have across the old 3 seperate mcbs for a make shift 3 phase circuit quite a few times

I have even come across mixed sizes like 2 x 20s and 1 x 32

Fazz711 · Jul 15, 2021

Cables live even with iso off.
Going to dodgy old style three phase plug.
Then out into SY cable.

All about to be removed and aux out going to the virtually empty DB above

Not even tried to put the live singles into the tray work

westward10 · Jul 15, 2021

Mikegh said:
Don't shoot the voltstick

I don't I use them every day.

ipf · Jul 15, 2021

LewisM said:
True but if one trips and DIY Dave starts to play around thinking everything is off then you could get a nice zap

I'd say that's Dave's fault. He shouldn't be playing about with it anyway, especially 400v 3 phase.
Loads of them in domestic, we know. There's more and more getting involved with commercial and industrial.... scary stuff.

I always use TP breakers but there's nothing wrong with 3 cartridge fuses. Millions of those perfectly decent circuits in operation.