Hello, I'm DIYer. I purchased a lamp but it didn't come with any instructions. Can anyone help me figuring out where to connect L and N? Please see that attached image.
hi there, recently had an electrician in as the kitchen was being re done now iam an apprentice didn't want to say anything to the guy who is qualified and of course and argument but hes left connector block joints in the plaster board wall with insulation taped up where existing sockets where...
I have a large house in Brittany across the channel on the Plymouth-Roscoff ferry, it’s an hours drive once you get to Roscoff and I’m offering free accommodation for a tradesmen who wants to spend one day a week rewiring it or plastering it, it will be quite spartan until it’s plastered., but...
Hi I’m upgrading the fog lamps on a 2013 Range Rover sport to combined FOG and DRL got the fogs working but have a single wire to be connected to an ignition live, where will the closest ignition live wire be
https://www.electriciansforums.net/media/dont-touch-that-hands-on-customer-attempts-insanely-dangerous-diy.19349/
Scroll to about 4.30 minute mark , I honest don’t think I have ever had a custOmer physically stick their hand inside the consumer unit while I’m trying to work
delroy Gets all the...
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So has anybody had this issue as I'm baffled. I've completed an EICR today and all other circuits apart from the ring main were fine. I had no continuity in the ring.
I tested each leg and can see there is a break between a couple of sockets...probably under a Floorboard as between the...
So was testing a house today (new build)
When I came to testing on of the ring finals in the house, when testing insulation resistance the live and earth legs on the ring are clear but live to the earth on cpc’s on the cooker circuit, other ring, downstairs lights and heating its bang down I’m...
Hi. Turned power off to change a socket front. Turned off at breaker not the RCD or mains. Checked that socket was dead got these readings Line to Neutral 0 volts , live earth 30 volts , neutral earth 30 volts. This is an old French house on a 3 phase supply Split at consumer unit and then each...
It appears a sparks has connected the live of one lighting circuit cable to the neutral of an adjacent cable using a cable connector in order to obtain a power supply? The circuit has worked fine for 2 or 3 years but has now failed.
While the cable triggers the NCV there is no current or...
Hi,
Complete newbie here, could really do with some advice.
I was changing a double light switch for a new face plate (brushed steel in this case).
I disconnected the old switch and went to wire up the new switch then discovered there is no live wire?
I am now at a loss for how to wire this...
Hey holly electricians, I am asking are live and neutral wires different in composition or same but just some different colors of insulation. Was one type of wire just designed to carry electricity and the other to be a neutral one.? Are they different in composition? For testing purposes if I...
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I’m trying to put a new ceiling light in that’s from IKEA but it has a blue wire and a white wire. How do I know which is live and which is neutral please?
Also can I check that I am going to do this correctly. The current ceiling rose has like maybe 6 wires all connected to a black...
On my cu at home I have a continuity reading between my ring final circuit and a radial circuit of 114ohms between live conductors.
When I test continuity from each breaker.
Why would that be? Break down of cable
If I turn one off and leave the other on I don't get a voltage.
At what point...
Refreshing my knowledge on circuits for an electric project & would appreciate if you can let me know if my understanding as I will explain/show below is correct.
Figure 1 shows a wire containing a live (red) & neutral (red) (similar to Romex NMB w/out ground shown) and Each bulb A-D are...
Is it common for electricians to leave cables hanging out of the back boxes with just a tiny bit of tape over the live ends between fixes?
Job I was called out to last night to get the lighting back on had this in a one room flat that was being renovated. With a combination of a water leak and...
I have a electronic board with leds (made by me) that is driving a relay. When that relay is closing it’s contacts, is actually switching the 240V for the light bulb switch in my room. This board is quite long, like 50cm (half a meter). The relay is in the left corner, and the live wires from...
Learning and curious
At my home the neutral and earth are joined by the cut out fuse.
The neutral goes up to the meter and the earth goes straight to the board.
I can't wrap my head around how the earth and neutral are different?
When the cut out fuse is out ( some one broke the seal along...
I am connecting a new IKEA pendant light in place of an existing light fitting. I have connected the red wire in the ceiling to the brown 'live' terminal in the IKEA fitting, and the black wire in the ceiling to the blue 'neutral' terminal in the IKEA fitting. However, there is an extra exposed...
Hi, I need to refit a timed extract fan, there are three connections on the fan body, clearly marked, fine with that, but the supply cable from the ceiling is one cable only, one brown and one blue, the bare earth wire was just bent out of the way. It was working fine before disconnection. There...
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