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    Faulty MCB

    Hello Guys, I've done a lot of work for a guy recently who also has a rental flat, which is controlled and maintained via a letting agent. Anyway to cut a long story short, he had a fault with a lighting circuit in the flat, where upon the letting agents electrician was called, the electrician...
  2. M

    shower faulty?

    i went to a shower that was playing up, found and replaced internal heat damaged cable, tested all working ok, and left. advised of problems (9.5kw on 4mm, 32a mcb, badly done whole house refurb by developer in 2007, recommended eicr and remedial) they called today to say mcb tripping over...
  3. E

    Underfloor heating mystery...

    I was doing some outdoor lights for someone and they asked me to look at their underfloor heating. You know how it goes!! The problem is it seems to keep cutting out and then the controller which has timer and stat on it keeps resetting itself. No trip on rcd or mcb when this happens. Ok...
    • ed-ectrician
    • Thread
    • controller faulty heating switch underfloor underfloor heating
    • Replies: 42
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  4. J

    Wife worried about MCB not triggered by faulty socket

    The wife has discovered that one of her ring main sockets is intermittent in its supply to her TV and is worried that this fault should have triggered the MCB but did not do so. Is she right to worry? She thinks the socket probably has a loose wire in one of the terminals. Is this likely...
    • jeffporter
    • Thread
    • fault faulty mcb socket
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  5. S

    Dewalt laser level faulty dw087

    Hi I have recently purchased a Dewalt laser level from eBay. It was working fine for a few weeks and now it wont turn on, :yes: I have tried new batteries. Is there anywhere you can get them looked at without ridiculous costs? I have googled it a few times but to be honest I dont wanna pay for...
    • swainy101
    • Thread
    • dewalt fault faulty laser level
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Fixing a Faulty Seaward Europa PAT tester

    I have a Seaward Europa Plus PAT tester and it overheats after testing several items. I emailed a company that calibrates and repairs Seaward testers and they said it was a common fault and quoted £159 plus vat to fix it plus £30 to recalibrate it. After looking into this fault on the internet I...
  7. M

    Megger 1720 faulty or not??

    Hi there all, just purchased brand new megger 1720, the problem is when i carry out a loop test, the meter is supposed to auto test for you, but this isnt happening you have to press the test button, the software/hardware on it is version 1.05, and was calibrated in jan this year by megger, so...
  8. telectrix

    faulty RCD?

    came across this today. washing machine repaiman had been and was getting problems with RCD tripping. the set up is 16th Ed. CU. front end 30mA RCD. MEM. 8 circuits, 2 of which are socket RFCs. in the kitchen is a 13A FCU feeding a socket under for washer. so far , so good. however, a dishwasher...
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    rcd not tripping on test

    Hi All Changed a C.U today, Volex (not my choice but customer supplied it) Dual RCD, one 80A & one 63a. All test results good except on RCD test at socket outlets. on half test all OK, on 5 x test all OK but on 1 X test @ 180 no trip but fine @ 0. Ramp test ok. When tested at RCD with mcb's...
  10. M

    II&TEE (PAT) Editable Equipment, Repair and Faulty Registers

    Based in the model forms within Code of Practice for In-service Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment, 3rd Edition. If there any errors or bits I have missed then let me know. Just to add, I only managed to create these forms because TesterSteve started it all with the Editable EICR...
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    Solaredge Problem

    Hi all, Started our first solaredge system yesterday. 16 250w Hyundai panels each with a 250w optimizer, Se4000 will be arriving tomorrow. We mounted and connected the panels and optimizers today only to find 0Vdc across the string. We tracked it down to a single optimizer which when...
  12. J

    Faulty socket??

    Hi I am not a electrician but wondered if anyone could help. This morning I put the washing machine on and about a hour later my rcd tripped out. I could smell a burning smell from behind the washing machine so pulled it out. Behind is a double socket with a hole burnt on it. Further inspection...
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    RCD tripping randomly over the past few weeks

    Hi, First post so welcome all and here goes Over the last month the GE RCD has tripped randomly, the last time when we were asleep in bed and nothing more anoying to wake up late as alarm not gone off and all house sockets dead. When i try to reset the rcd it will not reset until i turn off...
    • GOLLUM
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    • breakers fault faulty isolated neutral rcd rcd tripping tripping weeks
    • Replies: 34
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  14. M

    Faulty rcd?

    Domestic installation, rcd tripped on supply to garage which then feeds a barn 25 metres away via swa. supply cable to garage is swa and tests out fine on insul res and continuity as does swa to barn. connect any load to con unit in barn even with no earth and rcd trips? Circuits in barn show...
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    Faulty smoke detectors

    Hi lads I did a rewire 2 and a half years ago and the guy just phoned up and said both smoke detectors (mains interlinked) are beeping every minute or so. They arn't beeping at the same though. He's tried replacing the battery and also shorting the capactor (he read this on the interenet) Green...
    • Dave 85
    • Thread
    • battery detectors fault faulty replace smoke
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Faulty appliance

    I acquired anElectrician/husband model number 001 in April 2006 and recently it’s becomefaulty. It seems tohave interfaced with a forum message board and is no longer responding tosimple instructions. It seems to come home from work and conk out at around5.30 when it plugs into the message...
    • moolaa27
    • Thread
    • appliance fault faulty model roman times
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    Faulty soladin 600 GbR stuck in the red not flashing red just still.

    Hi..! I had 2 soladin 600 gbr models 1 of them was and is still working which is the first grid tie inverter i bought. i used it since january- 2012 and then in start of june i got another soladin 600 and wired them together LL ,NN at the landis & gyr P.v. meter as its no different then...
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    Faulty RCCB on old TT system

    I have a problem to sort out - it is a TT system with a faulty 80A 10mA RCCB after the meter and before the consumer unit. The board is very old style MCBs with no RCDs present. The customer called me up because until about 6 weeks ago the front garden lights were causing the RCCB to trip. I...
    • edrobbo8
    • Thread
    • button earth fault faulty old rcbo's rccb system tt system
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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    MCS Installation Database - Faulty

    Just a warning - I registered a job this morning and when I finished registering the job the screen kept going back to the last page of the registration instead of the screen that says the certificate has been printed. I clicked on the finshed button again - and you guessed it I've been charged...
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    Faulty Shower

    Just had a job through. Shower installed 3 weeks ago company done a runner. Shower cuts out after 2 minutes no water through at all - At any point faulty unit? Don't know whether to go plumbers job?

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