Evening all,
Went round to a clients house and did some tests on an outdoor socket. At the junction (in an IP rated wiska box) between the cable coming in from the house and the SWA running to a single outdoor double socket down the garden, the IR test between L-E fails at 0.05 Mohms. When...
Wondering if anyone else has had this, getting 24v between live and neutral at pendant when dimmer is off, which means the light isn’t fully going off it’s still sort of glowing. When I replaced this for a regular switch it sorted the issue, just wondering if anyone else has had this and if just...
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We have installed 2 meters (each meter is a 3 phase meter) for sub-metering in a residential house (1 phase installation per apartment). One of the meters, after correcting installation, works fine now. The other one, in my opinion measures strange voltage values. We had since the begining...
So I completed a CU change on Friday, (It was a bitch btw) and once I was done, when I turned the power back on, switched the pendant on above my head in the hallway and heard a crackling sound coming from the pendant.
I switched the power back off and took the lamp out, to see that it was...
rcd tripped today wouldnt just reset so dropped all mcbs then one at a time put them back on , problem is so far 3 different mcbs have tripped the rcd each time i reset ,can get all on except one of these 3 each time i reset them all , it is raining here today if thats anything to do with...
Hi all,
Had my downstairs ring final circuit trip the B32 MCB today. The missus was in the kitchen cooking and had apparently put the kettle on and as it was close to boiling the MCB tripped.
I therefore assumed it would be due to the kettle so I checked the 13A fuse in the kettle plug but it...
Hi there. I'm dealing with a difficult to locate problem with our 120V landscape lights. My first thought was there was a short somewhere in the run, but there seems to be something additional going on at the circuit breaker or closer to it. The circuit (one bundle of white, black, green)...
Had a quick call out to attend this evening. Currently closed but call was from a mum in need So I popped past with only my call out (light tools) in the car boot.
4 lights, one bathroom fan and a smoke alarm fed by a B6 MCB Protected also by an RCD.
Fault = no lights on the circuit working.
I...
Morning everyone, this is my first post - although i had an account years before that seems to have been lost.
Can any of you shed some light onto a situation I've come across.
I have a newly installed RCBO which is failing the x5 test with a reaction greater than 40 mS.
Now, I don't have a...
Hi all,
Hope you are all well.
I went to do an EICR at a small domestic property supplied by a TN S today, it is wired in singles using the conduit as CPC, however, there are no lugs for fly leads to sockets or light switches. In itself, what does this warrant, C2 / C3, there are only class 2...
Installed some new floodlights/pir and switches today. All tested fine, however on power up it was evident I had got something wrong. Upon investigation I had the neutral in the switched live of the PIR. Kicked myself but mistakes happen.
Corrected the mistake but still nothing was working as...
Hello everyone.
I'm getting a bit desperate, as my car has been at mechanics 3 times already and nothing really helped.
Here is the problem:
My 2009 Citroen C2 has an electrical/electronic fault which no one can find so far. The car sometimes starts with no issues whatsoever, and sometimes...
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I live in a one bed apt. We've got a utilities cupboard with boiler, fuse box, and a large maybe 2ft x 2 ft sealed unit which is linked up to the fusebox, so excuse my ignorance but presume thats something electrical..
Anyway, maybe one a week for a few hours strange noises come from it...
I've been living in an apartment for a month now and there is a strange multi-toned humming and beeping noise keeping me awake at night. The noise is multi-toned ranging from a low hum to a high beep in very random patterns, randomly coming and going every few minutes or seconds. It ranges in...
Fault finding. Good to systematically and logically investigate the problem, then the culprit has been staring you in the face...
phone call from new customer- no power.
get there, split rcd board. “It’s that big switch that won’t stay up”, says the woman
Ok, the rcd. Unplugged everything I...
Hi Everone, i have a small lathe i've been using for the past 10 years or so and never noticed todays problem before, today I got a small electric shock when i touched the bed of the lathe and a scaffold pole I have situated next to the lathe which holds up a scaffold lean-to roof.
After this...
I'm not even sure if I can properly explain this one. When the shower is switched on the RCD (1) on the other side of the board trips. The shower continues to work fine and when they come out they reset the RCD until the next person needs a shower.
When the hoover is switched on and plugged...
Hi all , been a mad day and last thing I needed at 6pm was this phone call ! Anyway cut it short. Signed off new extension 3 weeks ago . New ring .60 .60 1.12 >500 so all good . Had to go back today customer woke up socket ring off , went to reset ( RCD still up ! ) mcb made a pop ! I went and...
New member, DIY homeowner here.
I bought a new in-ground 1HP 120v Harris pool pump (online) and had it installed by my pool maintenance company. A few weeks later it appears blown -- it hums when the power goes on -- but I removed the back and the shaft turns easily so I suspect wiring issues...
I need to run power from a basement to a shed, approx 30 mtrs, customer already has 40 mtrs of swa on site, lights couple of sockets and electric gates to be powered from the shed, normally I install an isolator as a single point of isolation an them split the incoming through a Henley and then...
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