Fitting new consumer board - no part p?

[SPARTYKUS]

Take them out and stick a double pole switch in of course :biggrin:

Or even worse, I've seen the RCD installed but unresponsive, some nugget had actually cracked it in half along the seam of the casing and bodged a piece of 16mm cable to bridge the top and bottom. And TAPED it together.

 

[empress]

crack on m8 every tom dick or harry is having a go anyway ,Part **** is a joke.
we,ve all see the thousands of prosecutions for failing to notify building control.
every year i wonder why i bother paying for this shambles

 

[Skimpy Wan]

I'm interested to know what "pre-checks" you undertake (rather than a full test), prior to replacing the board - Ze, Polarity, IR each circuit, check main bonding etc?

 

[spark 68]

I'm interested to know what "pre-checks" you undertake (rather than a full test), prior to replacing the board - Ze, Polarity, IR each circuit, check main bonding etc?

In addition to above I like to whip the upstairs/downstairs passage landing light switches off for a quick look to see if I am likely to face a borrowed N situation, plus to see if there are CPCs present on the lighting, a quick visual as you can tell early doors if the wiring has been hacked about/bodged DIYed etc. plus a quick clamp of the tails with my earth leakage clamp meter to see if I am likely to face RCD tripping problems, oh and I don't usually IR test every circuit at this stage usually just a quick global L+N to E.

I usually spend no more than say a half hour doing this at the quoting stage, this has paid off every time and being well worth the time and effort spent, this tells me if it is going to be fairly straight forward or a complete ball ache of a job, and I can quote accordingly , I never "formally" record anything at this stage just a few notes for myself, and never give the client any of the results at this point either.

I learnt the hard way lol, only the once though!

 

[Engineer54]

Suitable tests to give you an indication that you don't have any pre-existing faults or a shared neutral situation between up and down stairs lighting circuits. Failure to do pre-testing can lead to a whole lot of problems on a CU change with RCD's tripping etc.

And typically just as you were thinking of or looking forward to going home too... lol!!

 

[Octopus]

I normally stick my earth clamp meter around the tails to get an idea of the "general" leakage

 

[Skimpy Wan]

Agreed. I just wondered what others do as I do a quick I&T before I commence the work, but I know others "gamble" on it being all okay.

Just out of interest what is meant by "global L + N to Earth"? Are you merely meaning you only do L + N to E 250v IR rather than also doing L to N on each circuit?

 

[spark 68]

Agreed. I just wondered what others do as I do a quick I&T before I commence the work, but I know others "gamble" on it being all okay.

Just out of interest what is meant by "global L + N to Earth"? Are you merely meaning you only do L + N to E 250v IR rather than also doing L to N on each circuit?

Installation isolated, link L+N linked at the dead side of main switch or where ever convenient, all fuses present or MCBs on and test to E, 250V soft test first if ok then 500V, thus testing the whole lot in one, this will show anything major up, I switch all of the lights on first.
Sometimes I link L to N with my test plug (rest as above) plugged into a S/O and do it that way, depends on whatever is easier.

Sometimes I will do more or less tests depending on what I find, no need to start stripping the whole lot down or go on major fault finding exercises at this stage, I forgot to add above that I also do a quick Zs test at a random socket both up and down (if separate ).

This combined with a visual and you can usually tell pretty quickly if you are going to have major problems or not.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Suitable tests to give you an indication that you don't have any pre-existing faults or a shared neutral situation between up and down stairs lighting circuits. Failure to do pre-testing can lead to a whole lot of problems on a CU change with RCD's tripping etc.

And typically just as you were thinking of or looking forward to going home too... lol!!

There speaks the voice of (bitter) experience!!

 

[telectrix]

here is a postcard from your signature.

sent to my ipad via RPG.

 

[Geordie Spark]

here is a postcard from your signature.

sent to my ipad via RPG.

View attachment 27813

You mean it's being held hostage???? mg_smile:

 

[telectrix]

just send an email. tell it to keep it's head.

 

[Geordie Spark]

just send an email. tell it to keep it's head.

I was thinking of sending a ransom - One well knackered Scouse Spark and a very nice hardly used Canon 40D camera.

 

[Guest77]

crack on m8 every tom dick or harry is having a go anyway ,Part **** is a joke.
we,ve all see the thousands of prosecutions for failing to notify building control.
every year i wonder why i bother paying for this shambles

Calm down, it is only a rugby match :biggrin:

 

[richy3333]

Or even worse, I've seen the RCD installed but unresponsive, some nugget had actually cracked it in half along the seam of the casing and bodged a piece of 16mm cable to bridge the top and bottom. And TAPED it together.

At least they made an effort. I've seen a few times an RCD in the board just bypassed because 'they' didn't know what to do!