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 !

 

[Stroppy]

Heheh, I 'dropped the bomb' in a customers house during the week (after Wednesday night's curry club), then they unexpectedly returned at lunchtime. My, it ponged...

This was the same place where in the loft I found a bulge in the fibreglass insulation which covered a melted plastic flower pot on top of an old spotlight. That did its job, then...

 

[STONEZZZ]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Central heating programmer tripping main 30ma R.C.D

 

[Outspoken]

I could list all my faults, but perhaps I should just give you the ex-wife's phone number as I am sure she has them written down somewhere

 

[Andy78]

Had a good un the other day. Tracing a fault on a socket ring, we were belling each leg out, line to cpc, to determine which cable went where. One piece only had continuity when my mate bounced up and down on the floor a metre away from the socket. Cable had been trapped between the floor board and a hot pipe.


After a few more faults were found and fixed, I connected into the new CU I had fitted after refusing to connect into this lash-up of a board that was in originally.



It did have a cover, but all the breakers were held in by the busbar connection alone. They were just flapping about with no way to hold them in apart from the cover.
In the second picture you can see the busbar hacked to fit into the terminal, and the piece of degraded plastic strip, no more than 0.5mm thick that separated the neutral bar from touching the busbar.

 

[Graeme Harrold]

After hunting down a lighting neutral fault, it was traced back to the CU....joy of joys when I opened it up....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o6jhnmryuqag2jt/2013-04-25%2010.40.55.jpg

 

[Outspoken]

After hunting down a lighting neutral fault, it was traced back to the CU....joy of joys when I opened it up....

https://www.dropbox.com/s/o6jhnmryuqag2jt/2013-04-25%2010.40.55.jpg

Don't you just love those really professional installs!!

 

[Graeme Harrold]

And it was a professional install by a large local contractor. Its like the guy pulled the odds and ends from the bottom of his box and threw them in, closed the lid and hoped for the best. This was only done 3 years ago, uncertified and blatantly dangerous......Still got to find where the 6mm cooker is joined to the 2.5!!!

 

[mselect]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

I got called to a house to rectify a cooker circuit that had tripped and stopped working. Traced the fault all the way back to inside to cooker only to find an electrocuted mouse between live and earth.........nice!

Believe it or not...This is quite a common one!

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

Only a minor one, testing a small proteus cu. the RCD wasn't tripping on the tests, so checked the test button on the front. Out of some form of instinct I opted to use my flat screwdriver as opposed to my finger. And boy was I glad when instead of tripping like it should, it went bang and filled the air with putrid smoke! Ugh! It'd been tested a year before and couldn't have been older than 3 years!

 

[Kate]

I've had that instinct loads...I call it my 'lucky' ! Maybe it's a sparky thing?? I had it just this morning!!

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

I've had that instinct loads...I call it my 'lucky' ! Maybe it's a sparky thing?? I had it just this morning!!

I think it was from all the proteus slamming that goes on here I didn't want to be anywhere near it haha!

 

[Kate]

I've never heard anything about proteus...although I've only ever come across two...ones in my own house. Is it that bad?? I remember I had to go on a major hunt to get a replacement MCB.

 

[MDJ]

I've never heard anything about proteus...although I've only ever come across two...ones in my own house. Is it that bad?? I remember I had to go on a major hunt to get a replacement MCB.

Standard kit from CEF Kate

 

[Outspoken]

Kate, try this LINK

(Viewer discretion advised, you may see things that frighten and cause you professional stress)

And for those afflicted with the rubbish above, there is a foundation to support you HERE

(Note, the above is a joke and in no way meant to mock those with a very unpleasant genetic defect that I would not wish on my worst enemy)

 

[Silly Sausage]

I'm ashamed to say, I fitted a Proteus CU once! :-(