The joys of a commercial EICR

[Ian1981]

Amazingly this was deemed satisfactory at it’s last eicr 5 years ago! And this is just at the DB

 

[David M]

I'm not surprised. I was once asked to quote on doing a commercial EICR against 2 other electrical firms. I apparently was way off the mark. A month or so later I was asked back to quote on some work. While I was there 2 kids (well at least they had only just left school at best) were walking around randomly plugging in a multi function tester and scribbling some notes on a bit of scrap paper. I enquired at what they were up to. Turns out they were conducting the EICR, go figure.

 

[Octopus]

Do you have the previous EICR to refer to?

 

[SparkyChick]

Thats a mighty fine mess of distribution board spaghetti you have there @Ian1981

 

[Ian1981]

Do you have the previous EICR to refer to?

Yes!
What a load of bull plop!

 

[Ian1981]

I'm not surprised. I was once asked to quote on doing a commercial EICR against 2 other electrical firms. I apparently was way off the mark. A month or so later I was asked back to quote on some work. While I was there 2 kids (well at least they had only just left school at best) were walking around randomly plugging in a multi function tester and scribbling some notes on a bit of scrap paper. I enquired at what they were up to. Turns out they were conducting the EICR, go figure.

Frightening

 

[Ian1981]

I particularly like the 40 amp mcb which has 4x 2.5 mm conductors connected feeding multiple socket outlets randomly to the office and canteen areas!
Neither conductor forms part of a ring final circuit

 

[westward10]

Lucky man I am testing this lot

 

[SparkyChick]

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Is that an old lift controller in the first picture?

 

[Ian1981]

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I’ve just puked in my mouth!

 

[westward10]

Is that an old lift controller in the first picture?

Indeedy it is. You would be like kid in a sweety shop here.

 

[LeeH]

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Saddle top missing on the left, the rest looks fine.

 

[SparkyChick]

Indeedy it is. You would be like kid in a sweety shop here.

I'd like to see it working

 

[SparkyChick]

But maybe not too close to the nice fluffy edges of the asbestos arc shields

Or that resistor network behind it.