No earth - 2

[pjcomp]

Booked for a CU change, the customer rang me up today. When I do their change can I do a job for her neighbour. The neighbour has recently had a new CU but the "electrician" who did it said he could only give her a partial certificate because the property wasn't earthed. WTF???

The message may have got garbled in the retelling so I'll find out for sure what's going on when I get there.

PJ

 

[tony mc]

Whats a partial certificate I can't find one in any of my books ?

Joking aside I would imagine this is a lot more involved if it is correct!

 

[telectrix]

sounds like a Electrical Trainee has managed to fit a CU without checking earthing.perhaps he was sleeping through the 10 minute lesson on earthing and bonding. how the hell has he managed to get any testing done then? see what the crack is and let us know.

 

[Tridentsystems]

Is an earth really necessary ?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

sounds like a Electrical Trainee has managed to fit a CU without checking earthing.perhaps he was sleeping through the 10 minute lesson on earthing and bonding. how the hell has he managed to get any testing done then? see what the crack is and let us know.

cack is more like

 

[GLENNSPARK]

tell you what...if this `electrician` has left an install he carried out works on and energised with no earth then he needs taking out of circulation.....

 

[Sharpend]

That's why it's a partial certificate, he's filled out the circuit designation for you too fill the rest.

 

[AdieB]

Had a high ZE on a job I was doing . Reported to DNO guy came out within an hour checked and confirmed out of speck made report to office. Week and half later guys came out dug up road and so say improved Ze from 1.7 Ohms to 0.7 Ohms. Went back to job to complete tests disconnected 16mm earth from earth block and cable fell out of clamp. Phoned them up again and had a guy out in half hour who fits new clamp with lug. Says there you go I test with my 1730 and reading is 1.02 Ohms, I say still not right. He then speaks to his office and two days later another hole in the road and this time bonded across the joint and 0.2 Ohms was able to finish the testing only took couple of weeks with client on my back.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Had a high ZE on a job I was doing . Reported to DNO guy came out within an hour checked and confirmed out of speck made report to office. Week and half later guys came out dug up road and so say improved Ze from 1.7 Ohms to 0.7 Ohms. Went back to job to complete tests disconnected 16mm earth from earth block and cable fell out of clamp. Phoned them up again and had a guy out in half hour who fits new clamp with lug. Says there you go I test with my 1730 and reading is 1.02 Ohms, I say still not right. He then speaks to his office and two days later another hole in the road and this time bonded across the joint and 0.2 Ohms was able to finish the testing only took couple of weeks with client on my back.

and this is why (and i`v said it before and i will say it..yet again) that a Ze should always be conducted upon being given the contract to carry out the works.....not during or after the install has been completed....
this gives time for any dodgy Ze to be dealt with....

 

[brucelee]

a Partial eic eh! has he cut it in half lol

 

[telectrix]

maybe it's partial in english and partial in either text speak or bulgarian.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

maybe it's partial in english and partial in either text speak or bulgarian.

aye...the front half though tel or the back half?...

 

[Geordie Spark]

Is an earth really necessary ?

Oh yes definitely .............. otherwise we'd all be floating aimlessly about in space.

(come to think about it ....... )

 

[monkeyelectric]

I don't know why no earth is so bad, just take a wheel barrow with you dig some up from the garden and dump it on the cu! Plenty of earth then

 

[Deleted member 72666]

I don't know why no earth is so bad, just take a wheel barrow with you dig some up from the garden and dump it on the cu! Plenty of earth then

You could get a job teaching those Electrical Trainee!