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[hercule]

Found this just before lunch

 

[Guest111]

Found this just before lunch



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Hah wondered where that had gone may I have it back please? lol

 

[Strima]

So did you have it for lunch?

 

[mhar]

To cook it for lunch you need to do more than just connect the tail to the live, you must connect another part of the body to something of a different potential. Pretty basic stuff I would have thought

 

[benji]

is it my eye,s or is there a 2.5 & 4,0 in the same mcb?

 

[ackbarthestar]

Now we need to see the bottom half of the picture to assess the ratings of the breakers.

As it appears we have an 8 way board with 3 or 4 rfcs, 2 lights, a cooker and a shower with a little extra 'pilot' conductor or it is one of the rfcs.

I can't see a problem if we have a combination have 4 rfcs with radials. but I expect it is likely to be the cooker hob with the supply to the oven tucked in with it. IMO, I would put as many RCBOs into the largest DB I could find.

I would have now have a 12 way board with the possibility of adding another 4 circuits.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

we had one today......BS 60898 type B 32A feeding a ring final in 2.5mm...with a radial directly out of the top of the MCB in 2.5mm......needless to say the radial was done away with...lol...

 

[ipf]

Tail looks a little undersized to me!

 

[alarm man]

is that one of those new rcbo's ds was on about

 

[Guest123]

we had one today......BS 60898 type B 32A feeding a ring final in 2.5mm...with a radial directly out of the top of the MCB in 2.5mm......needless to say the radial was done away with...lol...

Was it supplyimg more than 1 outlet then???

 

[ackbarthestar]

we had one today......BS 60898 type B 32A feeding a ring final in 2.5mm...with a radial directly out of the top of the MCB in 2.5mm......needless to say the radial was done away with...lol...

I can't see a problem with that myself, as long as the radial (spur) feeds a socket outlet or sfcu with socket outlets.
Its not dangerous, but personally, I'd prefer the European circuit methodology and install all of the sockets on a large number of radials..

 

[RogertheBodger]

A few months ago I opened the door to a 3 phase fuse box and across the top of the fuses was the skeleton of a rat, must have gone for a quick nosy round and walked across the top of the fuses.
It was perfect, every detail clear, must have been incinerated instantly, the bones looked like charcoal does when it's alight.
Same consistency too, touched it with my screwdriver and it turned into talcum powder.
Wish wish wish I had taken a picture.

 

[ackbarthestar]

That must have affected the IR while the rodent dried out !

 

[londonlec]

That must have affected the IR while the rodent dried out !

Thats where the BS3036 'nail' saves the day

 

[RogertheBodger]

That must have affected the IR while the rodent dried out !

Yeah it must, don't know the res of a Rat body, but it must have been a brown out. Or it could have been a black out, anyway it was dead.

 

[ackbarthestar]

Well just imagine it......
Rodent, FLASH, starts to bubble and boil while the internal fluids spurt out across the breakers ...... nice !

or is that too much information ?

 

[Guitarist]

Yeah it must, don't know the res of a Rat body, but it must have been a brown out. Or it could have been a black out, anyway it was dead.

Depends whether it was a black or brown rat I guess....

 

[RogertheBodger]

Depends whether it was a black or brown rat I guess....

Stop pinching my jokes ( I was going to get a white out involved but couldn't do it, but, thanks to you - Is there a white rat? )

 

[RogertheBodger]

Well just imagine it......
Rodent, FLASH, starts to bubble and boil while the internal fluids spurt out across the breakers ...... nice !

or is that too much information ?

Didn't see any evidence of that - but the picture is quite clear, Rat bomb.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Was it supplyimg more than 1 outlet then???

yeah.....a 2 gang that had been feeding a fridge and a washer....with a 1 gang off it above that had (presumably) been for a microwave..lol...

 

[Guitarist]

Stop pinching my jokes ( I was going to get a white out involved but couldn't do it, but, thanks to you - Is there a white rat? )

Sorry mate... :shame:

Albino rats are white...with lil pink beady eyes.

 

[hercule]

is it my eye,s or is there a 2.5 & 4,0 in the same mcb?

That was just the start. Absolute mess, lights are on 20A mcb, spiders web of jbs coming out of the cu - mass of cables disappearing into the wall - fairly small house with nothing fancy. Called out becasue a light stopped working, but just the tip of the iceberg. Smallest mcb is 20A.

Told them they really need to have full eicr and quoted £150 (will take a week just sorting out what goes where). Family with young kids no rcd's. cracked sockets, switches etc everywhere. No chance they will pay for eicr - even when they thought the £150 included sorting all problems...

 

[Guitarist]

You quoted them £150 for what you think is a week's work?

 

[hercule]

£150 to do eicr. I was exagerating about the time it would take to do the eicr. They wouldn't pay this, then found out they had assumed this would include fixing all faults - and declined on that basis. When I told them it would give them an assessment of their electrics, highlighting and prioritising potentially dangerous faults and areas where their and their families safety could be increased, but not including the actual work to rectify the faults they almost laughed.

 

[Guitarist]

People like this are not worth bothering with. Likely that even if they agreed, they would argue with your bill afterwards.