Tell us about your faults!

[kung]

Hi ALL
Just thought id put this one up for all those faults we find.
heres one to kick it off !
Domestic RCD tripped and wouldnt reset cause was a blown low energy light bulb.
There you go now for yours !

 

[telectrix]

ier and a lump hammer. gentle taps till it moves. mmersion heater spann

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

ier and a lump hammer. gentle taps till it moves. mmersion heater spann

Been at the ol peculiar this Monday eve tel? :jester:

 

[telectrix]

bloody laptop scrambling text. wrist touches on board mouse pad and bollox to my typing.

 

[dan86]

your wrist touches the on board mouse and your bollox. TMI

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

your wrist touches the on board mouse and your bollox. TMI

Hahahaha!

 

[telectrix]

big bollox.

 

[dan86]

Now you're just speaking bollox

 

[MDJ]

big bollox.

Yours or clean ones?

 

[telectrix]

well, mine ain't been close to a sheep. that's 4 sure.

 

[chcnorris29]

No one with new faults?

 

[telectrix]

women, they have many faults:

men have ony two:

everything they say, and everything they do.

 

[sarky spark]

A few years ago I was conducting a PIR inspection in a small joinery premises. There were two DBs in the building one being on all the time and fed the office small power,all lighting and alarms etc.
The other DB fed the machinery in the joinery workshop,this DB was supplied via a 3 phase RCD.
Heres the good bit, the emergency stop buttons in the workshop were wired so when one of them was
hit it created an N to earth short and thus tripped the RCD supplying the machine DB.
Apparently it had been like that for years.

 

[Andrewr3]

No one with new faults?

Makes a change to have a nice and easy one, a busted electric kettle trips RCD and takes out ring circuit and few other circuits with it.

 

[sajeel]

Had one the other day a live phase wire arching to metal backbox only when voltage applied remove excess wire fitted correctly did continuity and if tests before powering up and all good. According to client it has been like that for years.

 

[Andrewr3]

Makes a change to have a nice and easy one, a busted electric kettle trips RCD and takes out ring circuit and few other circuits with it.

Incredible, today had a fault almost the same. But this time it was faulty Coffee Peculator that tripped out the RCD and took out half the lights and power to the kitchen.