Can't find a consumer unit....!

[timhoward]

This is getting embarrassing - I've been looking for a sub-main consumer unit in a church for an hour now.
I've found the incomer. There's a nice old Crabtree board with black breakers, one of which is a 50A for "Hall DB". It's a split level site and the hall is downstairs, and the fat 10mm T+E cable goes off in this direction. Turning the breaker off isolates the rfc circuit I need to tap into and while it's looking unlikely it's RCD protected and I need to know and probably remedy this.
I could easily prove it isn't of course, a simple high current Zs, but either way I'm stuffed - if it is RCD protected I need to be able to reset it, and if it isn't I need to find the board and change it!

I've just swallowed my pride and phoned the guy that did the last EICR, who laughed and said "glad it's not just me, I couldn't find it either, and I put it down as an agreed limitation!" (so an entire floor wasn't tested....hmmmm!)

In desperation I've shorted L+N at the supply to it and measured the resistance of the lighting circuit downstairs, and narrowed it down to one corner of the building.
If I ever find it I'll report back...

 

[pc1966]

No mate surely Rev Green with the candlestick in the cellar?!

I though it was Miss Scarlett in the Basement with a strap-on snap-on?

 

[pc1966]

I suspect that if I could hear an answer, it would be something like:
1 Corinthians 2:5
"so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power"

More likely Job 5:7
"Yet man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward"

 

[timhoward]

News just in - the bloke with beard has located it. Don't know the actual answer yet! I'm back there next Friday.

 

[timhoward]

@snowhead gets the cigar - "Above false ceiling" was the final answer. I must have been very close to finding it!
Photo coming later.

 

[Lister1987]

Check that EFLI is exactly 666 ohms and let Lucifer do the rest

 

[Lister1987]

More likely Job 5:7
"Yet man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward"

Proof again that Electricians are Gods

 

[pc1966]

Proof again that Electricians are Gods

Or Devils?

 

[pc1966]

Check that EFLI is exactly 666 ohms and let Lucifer do the rest

The Zs of the Beast!

Or if it is 0.666 the Zs of the millibeast!

 

[DPG]

You can always trust blokes with beards.

 

[suffolkspark]

@snowhead gets the cigar - "Above false ceiling" was the final answer. I must have been very close to finding it!
Photo coming later.

In getting restless waiting for the picture

 

[littlespark]

You can always trust blokes with beards.

Yeah.... Rolf Harris, Gary Glitter, Joss Whedon, Johnny Depp. The list goes on......

Ok, a couple of the above names are alledged.... the other two... no doubt

 

[nicebutdim]

Yeah.... Rolf Harris, Gary Glitter, Joss Whedon, Johnny Depp. The list goes on......

Ok, a couple of the above names are alledged.... the other two... no doubt

Some of those beards are definitely alleged.

No idea who Joss Whedon is, but Glitter & Depp's facial hair would be more accurately described as 'whiskers'.


What happened with Depp in the end? I remember stories about him hitting an ex, but then also remember stories that it was the ex who was violent.

 

[timhoward]

Still waiting for picture myself!

 

[nicebutdim]

Still waiting for picture myself!

Surely the building is open on a Sunday?

 

[telectrix]

Some of those beards are definitely alleged.

No idea who Joss Whedon is, but Glitter & Depp's facial hair would be more accurately described as 'whiskers'.


What happened with Depp in the end? I remember stories about him hitting an ex, but then also remember stories that it was the ex who was violent.

morelike pubic hair in the wrong place. hence the term dick-head