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 !

 

[Mr.Si]

I think there is something wrong with this...



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[Rampage]

I think there is something wrong with this...

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[bigdaddy]

this was a hidden spur causing shop front lights not to work


new shopping center

 

[bigdaddy]

a recent call out to a fire started by the supply service head, spent the day there with fire investgators and supply company investgators. in the 3rd picture you can just make out the remains of the supply cable, luckerly it had had a new fire door fitted the month previous or the whole building probably would have gone up.

 

[bigdaddy]

found this this week doing a periodic test and inspection, had to do a tempory reconnection on it, just waiting on order to replace.

 

[bigdaddy]

this was at a job we were tendering for, yes thats a live service head three phase open the the elements, old building was just removed around it, glad we didnt get that one to sort out. btw it was fenced off lol

 

[Ohmyword]

this was a hidden spur causing shop front lights not to work
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new shopping center

Crikey! Did you have to take your own flask of tea? Wouldn't they make you a brew? ;-)

 

[Ohmyword]

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a recent call out to a fire started by the supply service head, spent the day there with fire investgators and supply company investgators. in the 3rd picture you can just make out the remains of the supply cable, luckerly it had had a new fire door fitted the month previous or the whole building probably would have gone up.

Ironic that the building's Fire Exit is immediately adjacent to this 'mains room'!

 

[bigdaddy]

Crikey! Did you have to take your own flask of tea? Wouldn't they make you a brew? ;-)

unfortunely not, this was done over night and couldn't start till the shop was empty at 22:00 all the staff dissappered leaving us with a security guard that followed us everywhere.

 

[Flyingsparks]

Got called out one new years eve many years ago - the customer said that her kids were getting shocks when climbing into the bath.
Checked the cast iron bath to earth and their was no voltage present.

I noticed that the carpet was very wet so put my volt meter probes between the bath and the carpet and found that there was about 75 volts.

I moved my probe across the carpet and the voltage started to increase as I got closer to the toilet.
Put my probe directly on one of the screws that held down the toilet, and bingo I got 240V.

Turned off the power, removed the screw, powered back up and the voltage had disappeared.

Floorboards came up next and I found that the screw which was about 6" long had gone straight through the cooker cable which was running through a hole in the joist below. Bloody plumbers !

By the time I got back home new years eve was almost over and I was the only one who was sober !

 

[Ohmyword]

Got called out one new years eve many years ago - the customer said that her kids were getting shocks when climbing into the bath.
Checked the cast iron bath to earth and their was no voltage present.

I noticed that the carpet was very wet so put my volt meter probes between the bath and the carpet and found that there was about 75 volts.

I moved my probe across the carpet and the voltage started to increase as I got closer to the toilet.
Put my probe directly on one of the screws that held down the toilet, and bingo I got 240V.

Turned off the power, removed the screw, powered back up and the voltage had disappeared.

Floorboards came up next and I found that the screw which was about 6" long had gone straight through the cooker cable which was running through a hole in the joist below. Bloody plumbers !

By the time I got back home new years eve was almost over and I was the only one who was sober !

Think of the money you saved AND NO HANGOVER ;-)

 

[Mr.Si]

Is there a prize for spotting all the faults?!

Go for it

Just to add insult, it's a 1 way lighting circuit and there are 2 reds and 1 black at the switch, which, is actually a 2 way intermediate switch too...



How irritating.

Is this an old fashioned way of doing things? (surely a 1 way switch is only ever 2 wires (live feed and s/w) or do we wonder if there was another switch hidden away somewhere?!
Well, it's a rewire job anyway...

 

[Wiredspark]

Last week I was changing a 110v DC Emergency light system over to a 230v AC. Here are some of the things I found.

1. The Battery cubicle was not connected via a phase monitor and therefor both Blue and Yellow could have gone down and there would be no Em Lts.

2. After disconnecting all the existing fittings (one circuit at a time) I IR'd the pyros and found them to be dead short. So I popped up every other ceiling tile in the place to trace the pyros to each besa box and eventually found that there were fittings that because a corridor had been built onto the place where the old exit was, the fitting had just been ----ed up above the ceiling tiles. So these were disconnected.

3. Ir'ing the circuits again found that they were still shorting so each leg had to be disconnected untill faulty pyros were found, disconnected, new leg run and and terminated and eventually Ir'd clear.

4. Once this was done I found fitting that had no key switch. Fittings that had a key switch but it had been disconnected by "the local guy" so he could fit a PIR in the room and several fittings which were fitted outdoors full of water with the pyro's entering through the top of the fitting. (I know this isnt against the regs but surely you'd bring them in the bottom to stop water lying on the fitting in and around the pyro gland lessen the chance of ingress)

5. When the additional buildings had been built they had forgot to fit Em Lts to the Em exits.



edit: was number 5

 

[kingficer]

I have to think more about this....

 

[timtomted]

low energy lamp keeps flickering after being turned off ?? this is happening on 2 lamps on 2 seperate circuits ?? The lamp on each circuit both happened to be 2 wayed.. i have replaced the strappers ...