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 !

 

[martin74]

Hi,
Had a faulty wylex rcd that was sending 95v back up the neutral!

 

[vinny electric]

why was the lights on an RCD :clover:

 

[Kamikaze]

Make everything idiot proof and evolution will simply produce a more efficient idiot. There literally is no rest from the insane stuff one comes across. mg_smile:

 

[Richard Burns]

Make everything idiot proof and evolution will simply produce a more efficient idiot. There literally is no rest from the insane stuff one comes across. mg_smile:


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Hmm adequate insulation between line and neutral, but a bit too much exposed conductor I think!
Priceless! (must try it:nonod

 

[keniff]

Make everything idiot proof and evolution will simply produce a more efficient idiot. There literally is no rest from the insane stuff one comes across. mg_smile:


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This has taken more thought than putting a different plug on! Brilliant use of the tag to separate L+N I'd give it 8/10 for effort lol

 

[Kiers1970]

Make everything idiot proof and evolution will simply produce a more efficient idiot. There literally is no rest from the insane st
uff one comes across. mg_smile:
At least there is a 3 mm gap.

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at least there is a 3mm gap.

 

[Bobster]

This was still live when I got to it.

The bloke using the welder plugged into this had reported the welder to be not working correctly.

 

[Ohmyword]

Make everything idiot proof and evolution will simply produce a more efficient idiot. There literally is no rest from the insane stuff one comes across. mg_smile:


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Just when you think it's safe.........
Takes me back to the days of the 'chageover period' from 15A (round-pin) to the 13A ring main era. My Dad would bare the ends of flex back and push it in the socket using plastic rawl plugs. Oooppss!

 

[ash_s3]

Make everything idiot proof and evolution will simply produce a more efficient idiot. There literally is no rest from the insane stuff one comes across. mg_smile:


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Irony of the England key fob and foreign plug! Bet the occupiers of the property weren't locals!

 

[supasparxs]

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I think someone has lost a couple of screw

 

[Guest111]

got called over by the old lady down the road about a bulb beeping even when it was switched off,"never liked them fancy twisted things"(energy savers)she says "my old bulbs never beeped and this one has done it from day 1" turned out her battery was going in the smoke alarm next to the light fitting.so i replaced the battery,and the bulb as she wasnt convinced,as she said"well the alarms been in nearly 2 years and never done that before"didnt charge her,dont you just love oap,s they can really make me smile.

 

[wendyman]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Sounds very much like a disconnected/floating neutral. But this post would be better placed, and answered, in its own thread. This thread is intended for those 'I can't believe what I have just found that some numpty of an installer has done and that I just had to fix' type of faults.

anybody else had anything along these lines of strange voltages ??

 

[QSGAZ]

Got Called out to a some conduit being hit. How i got a surprise as i thought it might be some conduit had just been a little loose. The idiot had ripped a full DB off the wall and four stop start controllers!!!

 

[Mr.Si]

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Got Called out to a some conduit being hit. How i got a surprise as i thought it might be some conduit had just been a little loose. The idiot had ripped a full DB off the wall and four stop start controllers!!!

One word: D'Oh!!!

 

[Ringo]

Simple one this, and luckily it hadn't caused any problems or injuries. I guess it doesn't "look" like the worst of the worst, but there's absolutely no excuse for it being left like this. The scary thing is that it had just been this way for who-knows-how-long. How many more like this out there?

Story is that I recently started a new job as an engineer, but in the first few days had to keep myself busy so decided to check the electrics in the workshop. There were some mystery breakers on the board so after investigation I'd identified where everything ended up. Scarily, this was found under the workbench, being on the other side of a wall-mounted switch in the 'on' position. The cover was initially in place, so to the untrained eye there would be no need to suspect anything amiss. Basically here was a live cable sitting in metal conduit just waiting for the chance to bite. Lots of people use the workshop for lots of things. Needless to say it's all gone now!