Problems with 'flashing' sockets!

T

tom-the-sparky

Hi Everybody,

Has anyone encountered 'flashing' sockets before? A client has a problem with plug in appliances in that when the socket outlet switch has been turned off, and the item removed an electrical spark/arc occurs?

Any ideas about this oh wise ones?

Thanks
 
Ta...made me smile.



ive always wondered how electric goes up and down and around all those knots in the extention lead.




cheers for the giggle.



it will be interesting if the OP tells us what the prob was.
 
A hydrogen atom lost its electron and went to the police station to file a missing electron report. He was questioned by the police: "Haven't you just misplaced it somewhere? Are you sure that your electron is really lost?"
"I'm positive." replied the atom...............................................Just thought I'd post that before the nurse catches me out of bed ...lol
 
A hydrogen atom lost its electron and went to the police station to file a missing electron report. He was questioned by the police: "Haven't you just misplaced it somewhere? Are you sure that your electron is really lost?"
"I'm positive." replied the atom...............................................Just thought I'd post that before the nurse catches me out of bed ...lol

Haven't heard that before, very good! I like it, said florence hopefully (for all magic roundabout and Jasper Carrot fans).
 
[FONT=VERDANA,HELVETICA,ARIAL][SIZE=-1]The Sex life of an Electron by Eddie Current
One night when his charge was pretty high, Micro-Farad decided to seek out a cute little coil to help him discharge. He picked up Milli-Amp and took her for a ride in his Megacycle. They rode across the Wheatstone Bridge and stopped by a Magnetic field with flowing currents and frolicked in the sine waves. Micro-Farad, attracted by Millie-Amp's characterisic curves soon had her fully charged and proceeded to excite her resistance to a minimum. He gently laid her at ground potential, raised her frequency and lowered her reluctance. With a quick arc, he pulled out his high voltage probe and inserted it in her socket, connecting them in parallel. He slowly began short circuiting her resistance shunt while quickly raising her thermal conductance level to mil-spec. Fully excited, Milli- Amp mumbled "MHO...MHO...MHO" With his tube operating well into class C, and her field vibrating with his current flow, a corona formed which instantly caused her shunt to overheat just at the point when Micro-Farad rapidly discharged and drained off every electron into her grid. They fluxed all night trying various connectors and sockets untill his magnet had a soft core and lost all of its field strength. Afterwards, Milli-Amp tried self-induction and damaged her solenoids and with his battery fully discharged, Micro-Farad was unable to excite his field. Not ready to be quiescent, they spent the rest of the evening reversing polarity and blowing each others fuses[/SIZE][/FONT]
 
If it has always done it from new - then it is most likely reverse polarity (single pole switch only interrupting the neutral not the line). If it has only recently started happening it is not reverse polarity - more like dodgy socket failing. Either way the socket has to come off.
 

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