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  1. input33

    Found one leg of ring main disconnected

    My friend was moving into a new (to him) house and wanted to change a cracked socket, so I went to show him how - straight swap - seems straightforward. I'll call this socket A. There are two sets of twin and earth in the back of the socket (as you'd expect), but one leg was wired into a chock...
  2. Baddegg

    Found in van…

    Found these in the back of me van today, made me think of the legend @luciennunes, 😢 anyone law want em by any chance…
  3. R

    UK Found a cable in my back garden…

    Hi. Can somebody please advice what to do next or should I do anything next or just leave that cable as it is? Just bought the house and found a cable in my back garden . Tested with multimeter - Im not electrician so I dont realy have a clue what this reading means - I only understand how to...
  4. B

    Found the thing we needed

    Following a heart stopping adventure we figured out where the panel was located in the old house
    • BobManderon
    • Thread
    • found needed thing
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Welcome Forum
  5. snowogu

    Hi just found light without earth connected do I need to do anything with it. The case is metal.

    Hi does the earth need to be connected?
  6. O

    DNO cable to head flopping around next to a bed

    I found this in a property today, I've never seen the incoming cable to the head (above and the other side of this wall) just dangling in free space before, in a bedroom. It's normally in a wall cavity right? Boss said note it on the MWEIC, would you guys feel you had too notify someone?
  7. W

    GFCI in Closet keep tripping, found it was tied to overhead lighting circuit. Normal?

    Hello all! Newer house, original owner(Florida). no change to electrical system. Just found there was an outlet (GFCI) in the closet so I wanted to put a paper shredder in there but it didn't work because the GFCI was tripped. Would not reset so I changed it out, new GFCI will not set either. IN...
    • Wryfox
    • Thread
    • circuit found gfci lighting lighting circuit normal overhead screwfix tripping
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  8. P

    Found a spur on a spur (I think) in my garage

    Hi all, I recently bought a new house and I went to check the installation on my garage. There is a double socket and a fused switch (3A) which is connect to the light. When I opened this fused switch, I noticed it is actually a spur. The way it is wired is that a SWA spur coming from the...
  9. J

    Mains electric shock from plastic light switch - no fault found by electrician - what next?

    Hi all! This is my first post and I have registered to ask for some help with troubleshooting an electric shock I got from a plastic light switch outside a bathroom today. I turned the switch off with my left hand and got what felt like a mains electric shock through the switch into my left...
    • jimster99
    • Thread
    • electric electrician fault found light light switch mains plastic shock switch
    • Replies: 44
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  10. U

    Just found out I have to do the AM2S…

    Got my AM2 coming up in August. I have done my apprenticeship through JTL who have been telling me for the past year not to worry about the AM2S and I only need to do the standard AM2. I have today found out I have to sit the AM2S as apparently now it is required for the gold card and I am...
  11. P

    Thought I found a nuisance trip but I didn’t. Any advice to my questions...?

    So a customer had a nuisance trip and I spent 4 hours trying to find the fault (first hour identifying circuits as none labelled at board). There was a ring circuit with each leg being fed by 32a breaker, I put them into the the same breaker. Another ring had its leg connector blocked...
  12. G

    No historical earth found

    No historical earth fitted in a block of 6 flats attached is an email from 3 years ago is this illegal Thanks for any advice
  13. M

    Patting a fridge: look what I found

    I hope you will enjoy the attached photo
  14. E

    Weird old wires found under my floor

    ...fortunately not connected to anything! The black one with the red stripe has conductors consisting of 3 strands, each about 0.75mm diameter which seem to be copper. with some other metal coating. (or maybe I'm imagining the reddish glint on the cut ends...). Insulator in terrible...
  15. E

    Bought me a lake house and found this.

    Let me explain what we're seeing here. This is an enclosure mounted on a post near the driveway. The source wire coming up from the black pipe is fed from a 30amp double pole breaker in the house panel. Not sure if the white wire coming from the house is neutral or ground. The wire does...
  16. J

    Swapping out 3 way switch with dimmer, wiring mess found.

    Hey all. No stranger to electronics, I've been building simple circuits as a kid and these days I build computers. I have a kitchen fan with light fixture that the light is wired to 3 way switches on either side of the kitchen. I was going to replace one of the switches with a dimmer switch. I...
  17. westward10

    Found a new Youtuber.

  18. Bob Geldoff1234

    Pop up blocker found.

    I have just installed this overlay blocker and it's extremely good at it's job.I visit dailymail(i know,i know) and the video popout was very annoying.This extension gets rid of all that. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/popupoff-popup-and-overla/ifnkdbpmgkdbfklnbfidaackdenlmhgh I am...
  19. G

    Interesting electrical things wot I have found on site

    Don't know if we have a running thread? Saw this for the first time today? Anyone fitted any?
    • GBDamo
    • Thread
    • electrical found interesting site plan things
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  20. S

    Sockets went out in my den/bedroom no breakers tripped and no gfci found

    Some background info.. maybe you can help. I have a den that was running 600-800 watts worth of electricity and on the other side of the den is the living room in which I had another 1100 watts running. One day I plugged in a standard lamp cfl light bulb and noticed it dimming as if the current...
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