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  1. M

    cause of shock

    An electric shock due to inadequate fault protection can only be caused by? a. accidental touching of a phase conductor b. class 2 equipment c. touching conduit under fault conditions d. SELV terminals I know the answer just wondering your thoughts on the question.
  2. La Poste

    Shock off the earth bar

    Greetings. I was at a friends house today who has a TT system earth rod. I am helping with the wiring. All bonding is in place he has a 17th edition dual RCD board. I was wiring in a standalone RCD unit for his garden shed and got a shock off of the earth bar. I am concerned because he wants to...
  3. R

    Just took a big shock off fridge wire!

    Hi fellas, Still a bit shook up from before, but please excuse me if i sound like i dont know what im talking about regards electrics, truth is, i dont. Our fridge freezer cut off before, as in it stopped making any noise, and started to defrost. The light was still coming on though when i...
  4. S

    shock from shower

    just had a call from a customer, saying she is getting a belt from the metal hose part of her newly installed electric shower. she has recently had a new bathroom installed, and as part of the work she had an existing electric shower moved, new spots installed and a bathroom fan installed, all...
  5. T

    Protection against electric shock to off grid enclosure

    Hi, New to site so forgive any clumsiness. I have a problem and I wonder if anyone can help. Basically I am bringing in AC Voltage from a wind turbine into a steel container. The container houses the inverter, batteries and a 230v AC Installation - lights and sockets as well as an external...
  6. N

    Electric Shock from Shower

    Hi All I have a customer reporting getting a shock from their electric shower, I have to go there tomorrow to investigate. Can anyone give me a heads up on what tests to carry out to prove if this is the case. Thanks
  7. S

    I got a shock today...

    ...when I was poking around in the spaghetti of my mate's CU. My little finger happened to brush across the two screws holding the incoming cables above the main switch (see photo). Just wondering why this happened. Shouldn't there be some sort of protection against accidentally touching live...
  8. D

    Static shock call out

    Had a call out today Client said they are getting static shocks from a laminate floor :eek: Between the floor and alloy frame forming the offices Found that the floor had been laid on top of old carpet with nylon in it Client so peeved with flooring contractor Advised to lift flooring and relay...
  9. J

    Electric shock

    Hi All, l have been pondering this in my head for absolutely ages and need an answer, if possible, to help me grasp this subject. I understand that a person receives an electric shock when touching both a live conductor 230V, and an earth/neutral conductor 0V at the same time, because the live...
  10. C

    If I touch the neutral wire, will I get a shock?

    Just wondering if I would get a shock if I touch the neutral at a switch point, if the live isn't connected to the neutral? Thanks:p
  11. J

    Shock off shower

    Hi, a customer of mine phoned me the other night to say she had just touched the water inlet pipe to the shower and had a shock off it (she was in the shower at the time!) I've been and looked at the job today and can't work out what is going on. I get a reading of 1 - 2 volts off the pipe...
  12. M

    elctric shock

    hi everybody. I'm new, so please excuse me if i do any thing wrong. My daughter had electric shock in the shower. I switched off the consumer unit., but it was still alive. so we had to pull her off the chrome hose which she was grabbing. we had a shared loop from our next door neighbour. He...
  13. E

    electric shock in shower

    Hi can any one help. Was called to a job where the glass shower curtain had become live (230V) . this was caused because the person who fixed it screwed through the old 6mm shower cable which was running up the wall into the loft where it was terminated into a JB because it was no longer...
  14. A

    Hot Tub shock

    Hot Tub shock :confused:Been to look at a customers hot tub today to assure him it was protected by an RCD which it was. This installation was done a couple of years ago, with a dedicated 20 amp supply, and ran in armoured. Its a PME supply. No earth to water which will be sorted asap. He has...
  15. A

    Hot Tub shock

    :confused:Been to look at a customers hot tub today to assure him it was protected by an RCD which it was. This installation was done a couple of years ago, with a dedicated 20 amp supply, and ran in armoured. Its a PME supply. No earth to water which will be sorted asap. He has informed me...
  16. B

    Caution risk of danger and electric shock

    JUST A WORD OF CAUTION AND POSSIBLE DANGER. Although I have not tested the 'KEWTECH KEWCHECK 103 MAINS WIRING TESTER Ii have tested a variety of similar testers including an earlier version of the Kewtech tester and the similar Martindale tester. In my experience they all have a fundamental...
  17. P

    Why Did I Get A SHock Today??

    Hello People I Started a rewire today connected 6 lights and switches in different rooms when I connected the circuit to c/u I noticed I had a fault removed the fuse to change sw/live with netural and got a belt the system is single phase tt the only thing I can think would it be a borrowed...
  18. D

    wot a shock

    Last weekend I saw something at the local second hand Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized taser. The effects of the taser were supposed to...
  19. M

    Electric shock

    Got a call out today from a woman who said she is getting shocks of some of her kitchen sockets, She lives in a block of flats and when i checked her cu's (she has 2) Nothing protected by rcd (told her she needs upgrading) one cu was wired with micc which just happened to have the sockets on...

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