pyro

[chris gray]

i'll set the scene:
were doing a rip out. theres hundreds of meters of pyro which im unable to find the ends of.
is there a means by which i can test to see wether they are live?

 

[pushrod]

carefully split the cable and use a clamp meter?

 

[Guest123]

carefully split the cable and use a clamp meter?

Seriously???

 

[pushrod]

should have said put on the biggest pair of marigolds that you can find first

 

[SEC-Tom]

This may sound stupid of me but would a clamp meter only give a reading if a load is being applied?

 

[Hawk81]

carefully split the cable and use a clamp meter?

clamp meter it? What? Sure thats hardly dangerous or a pointless excercise. Clamping them will only tell you if there is a load on it. What about it being live with no load. An approved voltage tester is what you surely meant.

 

[Guest123]

Come on gentlemen.....thats 2 **** poor, infact dangerous suggestions you've given him.

In short there isn't a SAFE way of doing it save for maybe one of them fuse finders.......

 

[AndrewMgan1976]

Next you'll be telling him to stick his tongue on the end to see if he gets a buzz

 

[johnboy6083]

i have given a reckless reply, that could be taken as proper advice. i was being hypothetical, and i wouldnt do it myself.

Lenny, is ther any chance that post can be removed.

Its comments/posts like mine that somebody could read without understanding and get themselves hurt!

foolish of me to even try and take the p***

 

[SEC-Tom]

Is the strip out of the whole building? Can all breakers not be turned off? Or even the main isolator to the building?

 

[pushrod]

Seriously???

sorry need to apologise was being flippant but wasn't actually thinking of MICC at all

 

[Guest123]

i have given a reckless reply, that could be taken as proper advice. i was being hypothetical, and i wouldnt do it myself.

Lenny, is ther any chance that post can be removed.

Its comments/posts like mine that somebody could read without understanding and get themselves hurt!

foolish of me to even try and take the p***

No probs.

 

[chris gray]

were doing a basement and theyre only routed through there and we cant gain access to find any ends.
guess theyre staying in then

 

[Des 56]

Not being racialist with this story,but the" bending the pyro" made me remember this yarn

Many many years ago,uneducated Pakistanis were working on a site
They had noticed the locals bending water pipes to stop the flow
One was asked to turn off a mixer,he duly started bending the cable and couldn't understand why it kept running

 

[SEC-Tom]

were doing a basement and theyre only routed through there and we cant gain access to find any ends.
guess theyre staying in then

Is pyro worth anything scrap value? Obviously it's made up of a lot of copper with the outer sheath but obviously with the mineral inside being hazardous.