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I've come accross A borrowed neutral in the upstairs/downstairs lighting circuits in a property where I'm fitting a nw dual rcd board.
It's the usual landing light job, feed from downstairs circuit, Neutral borrowed from upstairs circuit, I need to run a seperate neutral from the...
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Hello all, i went to a job today and the landing light was flashing on slightly, approx every 20 secs or so, (by the way, this was when the light was off), it had a low energy bulb in. This doesn't happen when an incandescent bulb is fitted. Any ideas what is causing it? A friend has told me it...
I have just replaced mcb's with RCBO's on upstairs and downstairs light circuits to cover work on bathroom lights and fan.
All work ok and tested ok etc. However, customer just phoned to say when they switch on landing light both RCBO's trip.
What could be causing this. Is it to do with the 2...
Did a cu change recently on a domestic property. The Landing light which is on the downstair radial. Keeps tripping the rcd in the consumer unit.Before the change the lamp holder had a energy saving low wattage lamp in it which the owners of the property have replaced with a 60w lamp, and like...
A few years ago, I visited a friends house who had his external PIR Activated Security Floodlight wired to his internal landing light. When his external lights were 'activated' his internal landing light would also come on adding an extra deterent giving the impression someone was home. I...
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did a cu change on friday. tt system, simple split load board, dual rcds. Theres a fault on one of the lighting circuits. when one of the light switches is turned on it trips out BOTH rcds on the CU.
going back to the house shortly to further investigate. would this be a borrowed neutral on...
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hello,
just started decorating my new house and need help with the wiring in my hallway where the lights on the hall stairs can be switched on and off from a switch downstairs and up stairs. The switches must control there own landing lights also.
some pics: down stair switch - the left switch...
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hi all, first of all ive just got in from work, had they day from hell and im shattered! did a consumer unit change, test and a couple of minors works all on same job, as well as having to repair a pipe that was not supposed to be wear i was clipping (fecking plumbers!) they never heard of...
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