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    Help - melted plug - why?

    Hi - hope someone can help. First, quick bit of background. I clean ovens for a living and have a tank in the van for cleaning oven parts. It has a regular 240v imersion element in it which I heat up each morning. It's connected to an 13a extension cable which is plugged into an outdoor...
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    Melted plug pins - slight brown mark on socket!

    Good morning, I am a complete electrical novice - recently bought a Dyson AM09 Hot + Cool Fan Heater, I live in a rented stone cottage half-way up a mountain & my aga broke down, ill-health & cold led me to the Dyson, however just unplugged it & one of the plug pins has melted plastic(?) at the...
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    melted plug issue condenser dryer

    Hi guy been using an (Status) extention lead to run are tumble dryer due to the mains socket just being out of reach every time we use the tumble dryer it is plugged into a double socket fully unwound and only has the tumble dryer pluged into it the other spare has a serged protected 4 way...
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    8.5 kw shower on old red/blue 6mm

    Coming across a few of these. Very small run of cable as cu is in kitchen just below bathroom but should be 10mm cable. Did the old cable used to be slightly bigger than the new stuff?
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    fused spur

    Morning chaps Im going to look at a job tonight on my way home where a guy says he has a garage fed from a 13 amp unswitched fused spur in his kitchen. { theres no rcd protection in this house } He tells me the spur is red hot to touch and also a few months back a socket melted in his garage...
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    Melted MCB

    Customer reported medium sized storage heater not working. I found this. It melted the case of the MCB adjacent to it as well. I guess it was a loose connection.
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    Shower supplied via 2.5 T&E

    Unbelievable!!! Last week, bathroom refurb, the shower was removed an 8.5kw mira, it had been supplied from the pullcord in 2.5mm t&e, there was no thermal damage to the cable. The customer says it was there when they moved in, 8 years ago. I cannot believe it has not caught fire & there was no...
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    Can Someone Help? Melted Plug?

    Hi I am hoping someone can help. I have a dryer that was plugged into an extension - a single plug to outlet wire - not one of those you plug loads into. About 6 months ago, there was a pop... dryer went off, the extension plug had melted where it was plugged into the main outlet. So we thought...
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    10.5kw shower

    Yesterday smelt a weird smell of burning/melted plastic in my bathroom after some looking about realised was the shower pull cord opened it to the the incoming live insulation completely melted an charred and the pull cord terminal melted shower was installed about 3/4 years ago but recent board...
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    Melted RCD!!!

    My mate asked me to look at his board as a funny smell was coming off it. Looked inside & the neutral going into the RCD was melted & so was the switch. It's a split load dual RCD board. The RCD switches are both rated 64A 30mA. My first thought was that it could have just been a loose...
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    load neutral melted in 2 spurs

    Just been to neighbours house because he said cooker was not working. Turns out the fan oven was fed via a fused spur of what appeared to be the kitchen ring. However couldn't get continuity between feeds so is a radial on 32A breaker or spur feeding spur. (neutral on load side of spur had...
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    Shower lash up

    I was called into a property where I was told that the shower fuse had blown. On investigation it turned out that a 9.8 KW shower was connected with 10mm T+E but only as far as the nearest fused spur on the upstairs ring main. They'd used a 45A cooker switch to terminate the 10mm then switched...
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    3 Phase 125 a fused isolator, neutrals all melted!

    I got an emergency callout today from a theatre i do a lot of work for. they had lost power to their stage lighting systems. after a visual inspection the neutral bar of the isolator has melted a lot and the cable discolored and brittle. obviously there is the fault! i was thinking about just...
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    Downlight connector blocks melted

    Hello all, Went to fix a problem last week: 'lounge lights not working'. Found 7x50W ELV downlights had been installed with individual 20-60W transformers wired off a single 400W standard dimmer. The dimmer had blown, along with most of the transformers and on nearly every light fitting, one...
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    Melted mains circuit breaker

    Hi. Does anyone know why a 800A mains circuit breaker just melt? Thanks
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    Static and a melted CPC!

    I have just noticed the insulation surrounding the earth going to 2 machines at work has melted close to the connection points of the machine. I don't know why this has happened but I do know there is alot of static built up on the machines due to the materials used in the conveyors. Would this...
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    Melted Clip

    Hi, Heres a picture of a melted t and e clip. Its a cooker circuit, no other damage to the cable, or connections and the cable appears to be correctly rated for the cooker. The only fault I can see is that the cable is run close to the central heating pipes where it goes under the floor. My...
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    My Circuit Test Screwdriver Melted!!

    I bought one of these a few weeks ago from an online company (who will remain unnamed for the time being) and i was using as normal to test a circuit and the handle started melting. The company have said they won't give me a refund, and will only exchange it for another one? But before i do...
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    2 Way MEM board melted

    Hi, Just wondered if anybody could tell me the possible cause of this, is from a block of flats and I guess each board here is a distribution to each flat. Also, where can I get one of these? Thanks.
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    LV Downlighters & melted choc blocs

    Hi, just been to a customer who has some LV dowlighters in the kitchen and playroom not working, replaced the bulb, no luck, pulled it out and found the connection in the choc block between the transformer and bulb had melted, not seen this before, there are four in total and they are all the...

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