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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..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.

[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. :eek:mg_smile:

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Got a call to look at lights flickering/not working sometimes. Thought I'd start at the consumer unit, took the lid off and was greeted with this! Note only one conductor is clamped in the terminal of the left hand ring, and the main neutral from the second RCD to the right hand neutral bar was also undone. There were other problems with the lights including loose connections at wago connectors where 2 or 3 conductors hand be connected to a single port.
[ElectriciansForums.net] Dodgy trade pictures for your amusement! - 1 Million Views!
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I got called to a fairly straightforward case - "when I turn on the outside light it trips the RCD".
The before L+N-> E IR test was 0.8 Mohms. I showed the customer, explained bare minimum was effectively 2 (or 1 if you want to argue) and now we'd disconnect the light and see what it jumped to. "It shouldn't be the light, I bought it new and fitted it myself". Ok, let's see.

Ah, factory fitted flex removed, T&E all the way to the light.... the problem wasn't exactly hard to identify:
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Snip. >299 Mohms. New joint box. New light.
 
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99% of the time that is like a red rag to a bull, come on and show me the disaster of an installation and I can redo it and go home.
sometimes though it is incredible how much effort a diyer will go to in order for it to be perfect, sometimes with one simple to rectify mistake. Those are the jobs where it is a joy to repair and educate at the same time.
 
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Looking again at Tim's image, I don't think a factory fitted flex had been removed. It looks very like connections on LAP floodlights a few years back. They didn't inspire confidence when connection NYY-J or HO7, but in fairness I never did have any issues with water ingress.

I was going to facetiously suggest they rarely lasted long enough to see a shower of rain, but that would be unfair when backed by a 3 year warranty.
 
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nicebutdim said:
Priceless.
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To be fair he wanted to know why, and we chatted UV rays and grommet shapes!
nicebutdim said:
Looking again at Tim's image, I don't think a factory fitted flex had been removed. It looks very like connections on LAP floodlights a few years back.
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I think you are right. It would have been a sod to terminate, so some respect is due that it worked at all, for a while!
nicebutdim said:
I was going to facetiously suggest they rarely lasted long enough to see a shower of rain,
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My current habit is Collingwood units. They seem to be lasting well. Also easy to fit (as are their bathroom bulkheads)
 
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I have been asked to wire an Air Source Heat Pump for a Koi pond - no biggie from the electrical point of view.

However, I thought I would check up on the required settings, and plumbing - just in case there is anything special for this application, so came across this video:



I just love the strain relief at 3:20, the bolting straight through the vibration feet at 9:20 (so they're bypassed transmitting the vibration straight through).

Can't see any danger with the consumer unit or wiring to the meter around 10:45 though! 😉

And he and his commenters think he's done a brilliant job.
 
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buzzlightyear said:
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Left by a wet pants when the boiler spring a Leek, no fuse spur to 3amp, take off the wall and left it has I was when it boiler tripped the RCD.
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A flex outlet plate and shallow 16mm wall box, very poor. Are you sure there isn't a fused spur upstream of that Buzz ?
 
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Dave OCD said:
A flex outlet plate and shallow 16mm wall box, very poor. Are you sure there isn't a fused spur upstream of that Buzz ?
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No idea, called out by a company that do
emergency calls, isolation was in order
From main boiler, customer getting wet paints back to sort the boiler out, informed customer to tell wet pants to investigate, and if no up stream fuse spur needs one putting in.
 
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Julie. said:
I just love the strain relief at 3:20, the bolting straight through the vibration feet at 9:20 (so they're bypassed transmitting the vibration straight through).
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Strain relief is low on the priority list when you have aesthetics to consider, like the colour of the cable.
Julie. said:
Can't see any danger with the consumer unit or wiring to the meter around 10:45 though! 😉
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In fairness, he did say he used rubber washers under the metal ones. :)

Julie. said:
And he and his commenters think he's done a brilliant job.
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He's so proud of his work, he feels the need to show off the innards of it.

Maybe he could get a perspex cover for it.
 
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Call out to downlights not working in ceiling, all stopped working together

5x 20w halogen mr11's

Middle floor of a town house, cant lift floor above, unable to locate transformer anywhere

oh, no I know what that means..........

cut a dirty great hole in the ceiling!
 

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