Hi all,
my mate rang me and said some of his sockets stopped working so i went to have a quick look and for someone inexperienced like me it's got me stumped, so i was wondering if someone with some expertise could help.
all the sockets are working except 1 downstairs and 2 upstairs, one in...
Hi all. Im scratching my head a bit with this one (even though i am a kind of novice electrically speaking).
I have a Citroen Dispatch van 2007. All has been fine until recently the indicator icon on dashboard started flashing faster than normal (which indicates a bulb gone normally?). I changed...
Ive stripped and rebuild most of my 1998 nissan 200sx over the last number of years and will hopefully soon be finished but i have ran into an electrical problem and im an idiot when it comes to auto electrics and no idea how to read wiring diagrams
atm all the wiring is connected bar a section...
Hi everyone.
I have come across a problem on a job that ive been on today.
Ive installed an additional C.U which supplies the new extension on this house, therefore i have had to split the tails and put new tails in to the old and the additional CU. Therefore ive had all mcb/rcbo turned off...
First of all hello I'm New to the forum :) I have a Diplomat hob it would seem separate from the oven For some reason after last night's cooking session it'd no longer powering up. At first I thought it may be a fuse so I've tried all of the fused switches by the oven to no avail. They all turn...
Hi all, I'm a newbie to site so please be gentle with me on this query! I attended a house recently to repair a damaged socket/back box on an upstairs ring main. However after isolating and repairing the socket in the bedroom concerned, the householder said that none of the sockets had worked in...
Hi all
Had a bit of a bad day.
Went to diagnose a "no hot water" issue in a Tk maxx cleaner cupboard and found there was no supply to the fused spur.
Went to the plant room and no mcb down or one labelled for the water heater. Bms panel contactor not pulling in. Not even sure it's the...
Went to a job just a minute ago, there was no power in the shop, checked the service cut out all ok. The meter light is on, tested the the main switch no power.
What happened is that the bloke that owns the shop tried to add a second ccu he went from the existing ccu to a henley block but put...
Called out to a 1st floor flat in 3 storey 9 flat council block.
Leaseholder was getting shocks of the shower and the shower room floor.
Suspected either static or insulation fault. Lifted saniflo cable and got a shock (just a nip but definitely not static!) when my hand brushed against the...
One of my local shops sells fruit and veg, halal meat and other dry goods that are common on foreign lands, they have been extending the shop over the last 3 months with extra stuff including more fridges installed.
So I pop in there on my way home to get some salads and the power is out...
Hi all,
Hoping someone can shed some light on this as I can't work out what's going on. We moved into the house a year ago and was told the power to the detached garage was disconnected at the house, but as far as I can tell it's still connected at both house and garage. There's a cable running...
Hello, I have just updated my bathroom and I have put six spot lights in, electric fan & a electric mirrior in. When I installed the lights and mirror I also put a dimmer switch on and they seemed to work ok but three of the transformers to the spot light broke, I don't know if that has anything...
Morning all,
I changed a bathroom light yesterday and not sure what happened but when the light was turned off the MCB tripped. Regardless of that I put it to a late Friday job and had a brain fart.
Regardless of above the MCB no longer allowed current to pass through. I remember as an...
Hi Guys newbie here looking for advice.
I have a Mira sport shower some years old but been working ok.
Last year the pull switch broke so replaced with new one and everthing was good.
This morning however I have no noen light coming on at the pull switch,the fuse for the shower in the RCD...
Can anyone perhaps give me some direction here as i don't have too much experience with heating and this is baffling me somewhat :rolleyes2: .
I've got 4 panel heaters, two of which are fan assisted. The latter two which are in the lounge & dining room can't be switched off. the other two, in...
Hello everyone,
I shall start that I had some works done yesterday involving wiring and somebody will come over to check but I wanted your advice.
Yesterday I turned on the oven, after a couple of minutes lights started flickering, then off, no electricity in the whole flat. Nada.Niet...
One of my customers had two of these Grafik eyes dimmer controls and one of them is not showing any power on screen, and i have checked it has 240 going in.
Does anyone know if they have any internal fuses?
hi guys anybody come across this before, got a call from a landlord to go look at a socket in a rented property,the socket had been working but suddenly stopped.I automatically assumed loose connection or socket faulty nips out with new socket just in case.Got to house whipped the socket front...
Domestic CU garage unit. Power is incoming at 237v and registers Live on input and output of RCD. It supplies 3 MCB's on a busbar feed all of which show Live on output as well. Earth is TT and Neutral is on a common bar. Its been fine for 10 years but all of a sudden the lights and ring have...
Seriously!!
"Customer put PEN in consumer unit it exploded now customer has no power"
I didn't go to this job......Shame!!
Turns out plumber had removed the immersion, cabling and trunking to consumer unit. Left a nice hole in the side.
The guy thought that cables were sticking...
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