400amp bs88 fuse blown 3 times in a year, building is a school and is feeding submain board, not an overload problem, any1 any thoughts for course of action?
So I go to a job a couple of days ago in a small shop. One of the things to do is fix an RCD that isnt working in a dual RCD board (not that neat but ok, no labels), everything works but if you turn the RCD off it doesnt disconnect the supply to the 4 MCBs it covers. Also the test button doesnt...
Hi all. Just went to a property where the water and taps were given a shock to the house occupiers. The boiler was cross bonded and had a bonding conductor run to the MET. But however surprisingly the property did not have the main earth. So I had connected a 16mm earth to the ccu and when I was...
I just wondered if anyone else has snip trouble like me.No matter how careful I am I eventually snip something live and ruin another pair of snips,sometimes not for years.Last time was when I powered up part of a building from an extension reel while doing a cu change,and forgot it was still...
Electrical plant-room explosion caught on tape.flv - YouTube
Just found this clip gotta take a look
CAUTION very graphic footage, didn't mean to be flippant with title but maybe should have been more thoughtful.
You have been warned.
Got back from work, phone battery was low so i picked up my charger (which i had left plugged in to an extension lead all day) and bang. Tripped out the mcb and partly popped off the plastic cover of the charger, and its all black inside and my flat now smells of fried circuit board.
Morale of...
Friend told me his cooker made a bang then didn't work but nothing tripped he said he had someone look at the cooker and its goosed but told me he only has just over a year as when new kitchen got installed and it is a single oven he said their is a 6mm cable connected to the old one hence my...
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bit of a rush job, but when double checked by me, then another spark could not work out what I did wrong.
Needed a r1r2 reading on a feed from one of our DB boards to an isolator about 10m away. This circuit has been live for some time, just a double check was needed (d63 breaker was on...
Been doing some electronics experiments with the students. Fairly easy stuff, but i have to admit the last time i did this stuff was when i was where they are now, and that is more years ago then i will admit. Anyway, we have soldered some resistors in series and parallel, added capacitors and...
Working in a kitchen and 5 mins ago the customer went to unplug the coffee maker plugged into the same double socket as my iPhone charger, as he went to unplug the coffee maker my iPhone charger exploded the whole of the socket is now black, it had triped the MCB back at the CU, RCD still up...
this slightly confuses me;
whenever a Zs reading comes up too high, e.g on a particularly long run, to get around the problem if you cant change the MCB rating, I get told to change it for an RCBO.
Table 41.3 of the regs gives max Zs values for both MCB and RCBO protection. If our Zs value...
Why why why do people rush into jobs with out thinking , this would have been a nice little job , 3 story 4 be town house , I was asked to do a PIR , on the property re wired last year , and it was oh my god , it looks like its been rewired 10 years ago the words from my apprentice , just to...
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I heard about this on the news. Apparently all the local residents' appliances blew up due to a voltage spike.
I couldn't figure out at first how this happened? Then I started wondering whether, because the secondary winding of the transformer is a 'star' winding and the centre...
Hi all,
Just had quite a fright & must say I'm pretty annoyed with myself.
I've just tested the ends of a wire to check if it was live (using a fluke voltmeter) and had a massive flash and bang at the points of the probes). I'm annoyed because I should have isolated the circuit and...
Picture the scene,
Last week I replaced a sub main and distribution board on a farm. I left site and about six hours later two of the phases dissappear.
with in half an hour of the supply going down the standby generator was fired up with out problem.
The following day the corp turn up...
Was in the garden earlier and heard a very loud BANG
House alarms started doing there noisy thing.
A little while later Mrs said, looking outa window, look somethings going on!
Ambulance first response, Ambulance, Fire brigade, 3 x Police cars and a crowd in street.
Someone digging in garden...
hello every one just wondering if u could give me possible solutions to why it went bang.
its a 3 phase machine pluged in to a socket. the socket goes straight back to board.
the machine is a compressor and is very old bout 30ish years!!!
i did NOT wire the sockets or the board. they...
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