Dead short between 3 conductors

[uksparks]

I just used two wy wagos just to cap the ends sorry, just one conductor in each.

 

[davesparks]

I don't see what advantage putting a wago on the end of it has?

If you want to make it safe then connect them all to earth

 

[se7aq]

If he chopped it back enough so it couldn't be re-connected and the customer's happy, sounds OK to me.
Why waste hours tracking down an irrelevant fault!

The house next door hasn't got power though..!

 

[JD6400]

I don't see what advantage putting a wago on the end of it has?

If you want to make it safe then connect them all to earth

I see where you are coming from , but personally if I were ever to leave a unknown cable without finding it's purpose .
I would do as uksparks has , this way it can be reconnected if found to be needed , and although banging down to earth is good practice for known circuits which are now obsolete , I would be very wary of doing so with one of unknown origin / destination .

 

[davesparks]

Well he knows the destination is a dead short L-N-E as that is what the thread was all about when it started.

 

[JD6400]

If you don't know what a circuit does or where it goes then how can you tell its origin or destination ?

 

[davesparks]

The cable originates at the point it has been disconnected, and it has been disconnected due to a dead short L-N-E.

 

[JD6400]

I know what you mean and would tend to agree with that , but what's to say it is not going to some form of micro generation ( PV / Wind ?) , against the regs granted ! But still possible .
Or it could even go out to a little generator which gets plugged in when the power is out . I have seen this on more than one occasion and the home owner just knocks the main switch off when the genny is plugged in .



Edit; Never underestimate the power of stupidity , and how a little knowledge can implement that stupidity !