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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..

Rules....No Offensive material... edit if required before posting as this is the public arena.
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:

 

[ruston]

Troubled with duplicate posting so gave up.

 

[NDG Elecs]

Why isn't the electric falling out of that board, is this a new technology that defies gravity?

My seven year old lad said to me last week that if you cut through a cable then the electricity would pour out everywhere ( he thought it would be similar to what water would do). Technically he could be right with a HV cable I suppose...

 

[Richard Burns]

My seven year old lad said to me last week that if you cut through a cable then the electricity would pour out everywhere ( he thought it would be similar to what water would do). Technically he could be right with a HV cable I suppose...

A very common thought when electricity was first introduced into homes, "if there is not a plug in the socket the electricity will leak out"

 

[campo]

My neighbour was one of the first electricians to install lectric on Dartmoor. One woman said he was an idiot because he put a bend in the cable "how's the lectric suppose it go round the corner?"

 

[Had8Lives]

Hmm I wonder why this ring has no earth continuity? I don't think face plate screws are meant to be used as a connector?!

 

[Pete999]

Not sure what you mean

 

[Richard Burns]

The ring cpc should have been continuous if the face plate was in place. I am not sure I agree with earthing a circuit through the face plate screws but earthing the back box is just acceptable.
What is the extra cable skulking at the bottom of the box?

 

[SparkyChick]

The ring cpc should have been continuous if the face plate was in place. I am not sure I agree with earthing a circuit through the face plate screws but earthing the back box is just acceptable.
What is the extra cable skulking at the bottom of the box?

I think it's an SFCU, so load side cable (based on the tiles, probably on a kitchen ring).

I can just about accept the CPC of one leg in each of the two earthing terminals on two terminal plates, certainly wouldn't accept one leg in the backbox and one on the plate unless the leg to the backbox carried on (and was continuous) to the plate.

 

[Had8Lives]

I think it's an SFCU, so load side cable (based on the tiles, probably on a kitchen ring).

I can just about accept the CPC of one leg in each of the two earthing terminals on two terminal plates, certainly wouldn't accept one leg in the backbox and one on the plate unless the leg to the backbox carried on (and was continuous) to the plate.

You are correct. It is an SFCU. I think the CPC of one leg of the ring somehow ended up too short to reach the earth terminal of the SFCU, so instead of extending it, it was put in a convenient nearby back box earth terminal with no thought for continuity of the ring.

 

[Had8Lives]

The ring cpc should have been continuous if the face plate was in place. I am not sure I agree with earthing a circuit through the face plate screws but earthing the back box is just acceptable.
What is the extra cable skulking at the bottom of the box?

The face plate is a SFCU supplying a fan oven. The skulking cable runs to the oven.

 

[Pete999]

Not sure what you mean

Ah reading all the other post, it's all clear now, agree, not a good install method

 

[Toneyz]

Not sure what you mean

Nore do I?

 

[Zdb]

Perfect fit

 

[freddo]

Fitting a load of lights at the moment, many were supplied like this, we had to cut off and ferrule the wires on all of the lights. Not what you would expect from lights costing more than £150 each.

 

[westward10]

How to extend cables into a consumer unit.