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 !

 

[rbelecserv]

Had to change a load of sockets in a customers house to chrome ones a year or so ago, isolated the downstairs ring and checked with tester and it was still live, isolated the upstairs and kitchen ring and was still live?? With no more socket circuits left on the cu i turned the whole board of at the main switch and it was still live. So I took the cover off and the ring main had been connected into the top of the main switch with the tails! I tested the circuit and there was a nuetral to earth fault on it so instead of finding the fault they just took the rcd and the mcb out of the equation. Dont know how somebody can walk away and leave something like that!
Ross

 

[Carnegstar]

 

[bigbaddave]

I have piles

 

[bigbaddave]

Recently been carrying out some emergency light replacments, can you spot the errors?

I see it, They have put the sticker on the wrong terminals. lol

 

[Geordie Spark]

I have piles

I'm intercontinental and have to (Part) Pee every 10 minutes.

 

[tidyboiler]

I have too many to mention.

 

[DJ Ovengloves]

I'm addicted to drinking braking fluid.

It's OK, I could stop anytime!

 

[telectrix]

went to a nightclub once. they wouldn't let me in without a tie. " go see if you've got one in the car" says the head bouncer. all i could find in the car was my jump leads, so i put these round my neck. bouncer says " yoiu can come in now, but don't start anything"

 

[Andy78]

There's always a reason for low IR readings....

 

[Stroppy]

Yikes!!! Let me guess: downlights?

 

[Andy78]

Nope, kitchen sockets. Had been frying for a while and emitting occasional bangs that blew the 15a fuse wire protecting the rfc. :S.
I suspect it was either damaged during building work, or a rodent started the rot. Was so charred and degraded it was impossible to tell.

Scary thing was that power to a spur that fed an outside light was gone because of this fault. The elderly customer said the light hadn't worked for a couple of years !
Never seen a burnt downlight circuit ......yet.

 

[Stroppy]

No? I've not been in this game long and I've seen loads.

Usually this sort of thing:

and

 

[monkeyelectric]

Kitchen fitters!

 

[andyd55]

Re: Tell us about your faults !









Check out this install!

Nothing was labelled either so nightmare trying to find everything!

How many faults you can spot!?

Plus this was how I found it too, no covers on!

 

[Kamikaze]

This beauty took six hours to track down, baring in mind all the pipes were lagged. The works electrician was busy one day, so in his infinite wisdom the works engineering manager decided that the works painter and decorator should carry on with the installation of some trunking and SWA’s on the roof. That decision will cost the clown dearly.