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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telectrix · Aug 17, 2022

isn't not also reverse polarity?

DPG · Aug 17, 2022

telectrix said:
isn't not also reverse polarity?

Yep, that's the worrying thing Tel.

telectrix · Aug 17, 2022

and the smaller cables coming out of the ~~henly~~ click boxes protected only by DNO fuse.

brianmoooore · Aug 17, 2022

I reckon it's the coloured cable ties that are wrong, not the tape. Meter looks newer than the blocks.

Dustydazzler · Aug 17, 2022

brianmoooore said:
I reckon it's the coloured cable ties that are wrong, not the tape. Meter looks newer than the blocks.

I was think the exact same thing , the meter monkey put the tails in the wrong way round

ipf · Aug 17, 2022

Raptor0014 said:
No prizes for guessing the issue here.

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Connector blocks upside down?

James · Aug 17, 2022

brianmoooore said:
I reckon it's the coloured cable ties that are wrong, not the tape. Meter looks newer than the blocks.

Most meters, the phase in is left, phase out is right.
N in and out is normally in the middle left and right as per the lives.
however the N are normally just jointed in a short bus bar with a fly lead for the meter electronics.

brianmoooore · Aug 17, 2022

Meter is connected correctly according to the coloured cable ties, but it's the meter monkey that put the cable ties on the wrong tails, probably after he/she removed the old meter.

freddo · Aug 17, 2022

Got called out to check central heating wiring today:

Taylortwocities · Aug 17, 2022

littlespark said:
My OCD is being triggered every time you lot call the Henley blocks.

It must really grind on you that that the letters OCD are arranged in the wrong order!!

Mike Johnson · Aug 17, 2022

freddo said:
Got called out to check central heating wiring today:

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That's the Poo plan wiring.

Dustydazzler · Aug 17, 2022

freddo said:
Got called out to check central heating wiring today:

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Looks like 99% of central heating juntion boxes I find

freddo · Aug 17, 2022

Mike Johnson said:
That's the Poo plan wiring.

At least they sleeved the live cpc wire brown!

Raptor0014 · Aug 18, 2022

telectrix said:
isn't not also reverse polarity?

Correct.

Reverse polarity, undersized tails to a EV charge point & upside down connector blocks.

This was done when a EV charger was installed. The guy said the installer made a right mess and he had a load of issue since and they wouldn’t come back.

I thought no one could be that stupid to cross the polarity. But they had.

Mike Johnson · Aug 18, 2022

@freddo It may be my eye's, but is that brown sleeving on a bare CPC.

Sorry did not see your post until later.

telectrix · Aug 18, 2022

Mike Johnson said:
@freddo It may be my eye's, but is that brown sleeving on a bare CPC.

Sorry did not see your post until later.

looks like the plonker has used that cpc as a live,

Baddegg · Aug 18, 2022

Not my find but made me laugh…..builders still using it apparently

littlespark · Aug 18, 2022

Now, what have you been told about non contact voltage pens. Hardly reliable.

Use the builder’s finger

Mike Johnson · Aug 18, 2022

Or preferably the builders tongue.

Dustydazzler · Aug 18, 2022

I have a funny story about a reel lead just like that

I was working on a building site about 15 years ago and a couple of the builders were worried about getting a whack off their extension lead every time they plug or unplug something ( their hand must have been brushing up very close against the live pin )

at the time I hadn't seen the offending reel lead so didn't know what was wrong so said I would take a look 'in a minute'

as I was walking over to see the builders lead I head a loud scream and then saw the builder laying on the floor right next to the lead clutching his right hand, he had only tried to pull the live pin out while still LIVE with a pair of insulated long nose pliers

i took my vde pliers out and yanked the offending pin out

Mike Johnson · Aug 18, 2022

We know a song about that, don't we Billy.

Welchyboy1 · Aug 23, 2022

had a customer call to say she had a kitchen fitter in to fit a new cupboard around the boiler and he thinks he may of hit a cable

So after chopping out two layers of tiles and some dot and dab found this

James · Aug 23, 2022

That's just Lazy, he couldn't be bothered to hit 2 of the cables, just went for multiple hits on the same targets.

GBDamo · Aug 23, 2022

Welchyboy1 said:
had a customer call to say she had a kitchen fitter in to fit a new cupboard around the boiler and he thinks he may of hit a cable

So after chopping out two layers of tiles and some dot and dab found thisView attachment 100816

What was he fixing with, a Tommy gun?

DPG · Aug 23, 2022

We're they run in prescribed zones?

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