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[Darkwood]

Right ... Just been nudged to set this up by Paul.M and sounds a good idea following recent threads I've done in the Arms..

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Anything to do with the trade or in and around it ...H&S pic's welcome.



I've posted this a few times and this is at a mates house following a kitchen refirb several yrs ago. mg_smile:

 

[Raptor0014]

I would also be looking at that oven again as that leakage is way too high, Should be around 1 mA or 1 mA/kW of rated power

RCD with a rated operating current of 30 mA, the maximum leakage current is 9 mA

I am unsure of what else to test on it.

The element is fine both resistance wise and visually inspecting it. The bulb housing is also fine (had this once before where the ceramic holder had deteriorated and the light contacts would expand when heating up and cause a trip). Checked the leakage and it seemed the main culprit was when the temp was set. But all the connections are fine and nothing is loose.

I genuinely mean this, if you have anything further I can test/check then please let me know.

 

[mainline]

I am unsure of what else to test on it.

The element is fine both resistance wise and visually inspecting it. The bulb housing is also fine (had this once before where the ceramic holder had deteriorated and the light contacts would expand when heating up and cause a trip). Checked the leakage and it seemed the main culprit was when the temp was set. But all the connections are fine and nothing is loose.

I genuinely mean this, if you have anything further I can test/check then please let me know.

Why not try with the element disconnected to rule out everything else.

 

[mainline]

There was a bit of a discussion on here the other week about elements and the way they fail etc.
Did you IR test ?.

Oven Replacement - RCD?

Afternoon all. Apologies if this is a stupid question. I'm currently half part way through completing 2391 (second exam tonight) - so may be getting myself in a tiz overthinking things. Either way, thought I'd put it out to the group. Task is: Straight swap of existing x5 ovens with new -...

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[freddo]

In my own house! It was cold so I put on a 3kw downflow heater I misuse as a portable heater. Plug went bang and tripped socket rcbo. Perhaps I should have put more effort into wiring the plug, 2 cord clamp screws would have been a start. Left a blast mark on the socket plate too.

 

[Raptor0014]

Well this is a new one.

I was there to quote for another job. Moved the cables to see the entry to the building and they sparked.

Bit of investigation and found 244v down the armour….. What is worse is it’s feeding an outdoor socket with no RCD!

I’ve disabled and made it safe for now. Customer is weighing up wether to get the other ‘electrician’ back or just get me to sort it when I sort the other job I’m quoting for.

Switched off MCB is the supplying OCPD. No RCD protection, yet they use a RCBO for the other socket near the board.

 

[mainline]

I would have thought the armour would have been earthed at some point, otherwise no sparks.

 

[Raptor0014]

I would have thought the armour would have been earthed at some point, otherwise no sparks.

I’m guessing that the armour of the other cable (which was an old generator supply) being lay on the concrete floor where the generator used to be was making the route back to physical earth.

 

[mainline]

Get the other spark back, so he can have a slap.

 

[Raptor0014]

Get the other spark back, so he can have a slap.

Might ask him back and then ask him to grab the cable and move it….

 

[ipf]

Burned out socket with an extra hole drilled for a woodscrew?



Fixed to chipboard wall without backbox.







That's a water pipe with an extra 2.5 t+e, by passing that original plastic back box, spurred off to somewhere.
It seems the plastic pipe's been shoved down the cavity and gone through the cable bunch.

 

[Raptor0014]

A few different jobs for these.

Office complex. Been asked to add additional sockets. Network engineers had just finished their work. Guess they don’t pay attention to 528.1.

I wouldn’t mind but the dado trunking has seperate compartments to keep data and power seperate. Especially when it’s standard unshielded cat 5e cable.

This next was a call out. Owner was putting up a curtain rail and drilled straight though a light cable.

This last one is a brand new near £600k house. Owner got the keys from the developer a week ago. Seems the NICEIC approved contractor likes to use impact drivers. Video shows 2 of the 6 MCBs with broken terminal screws

 

[brianmoooore]

They did make a nice neat job of the outer sheath of the tails.

 

[freddo]

This last one is a brand new near £600k house. Owner got the keys from the developer a week ago. Seems the NICEIC approved contractor likes to use impact drivers. Video shows 2 of the 6 MCBs with broken terminal screws

Perhaps they normally install Merlin panel boards and thought the MCB screws were shear bolts...

 

[ipf]

They did make a nice neat job of the outer sheath of the tails.

Way over stripped the blue outer....

 

[ERFspark]

These breakers on the right supply a 400V heater and the local lighting to an area housing a compressor and a load of conveyors. The main breaker is supplying the compressor.
Lovely work piggybacking off the live side to feed those. I’m at a loss why this is appropriate. The guy who installed this lot was South African, is this a way of doing things over there? There are multiple instances of this across the site.
So when the compressor is isolated in the switch room for maintenance the local light and heating is lost
There’s a perfectly good fuseboard about 20m along the wall he could have used. I’ve never understood people doing things like this