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Ok I still have an electrical problem I need assistance with.
This thread has been closed twice due to trolling, but as this is a potentially dangerous situation I would like the forums help.
Mods: if someone tries to troll this thread again, please just give them a slap and stop closing the dam thread!!!!
Parents live in an old farm house with a few conversions, due to this there are lots of overlapping electrics.
The current point of contention is an SWA feed.
This feeds 3 sockets in the kitchen (3/5 counter level sockets on one wall).
Why these are fed separately is beyond me, but irrelevant.
The SWA is 2 core, and although the SW is now glanded with an earth tab, there is no connection from this earth tab to the bar.
There is no apparent dedicated CPC for this circuit. I originally assumed that it passed on Zs due to parallel connections.
However last weekend I brought my multimeter over (could not bring the fluke for a Zs, long story).
I cont checked the earth pins from 2 adjacent sockets (but on different circuits).
I assumed I would get a reading of almost 0 as was expecting a borrowed earth.
What I got was a reading of over 1000Ohm.
To me this seems to indicate that there is no earth connection at all!
The house is on TN-C. Which frankly I know nothing at all about, it is on my to learn list =-)
Have sent the spark an e-mail, he says it is safe, any further question e-mail again. Have done to no response.
So to be clear I am not complaining about the lack of dedicated earth (parents house, their call), I am worried there is no earth connection.
Parents believe their spark, so do not want me messing around with stuff and doing tests that might knock the power off (parents house, their call, no matter how much it makes we want to scream)
So what on earth am I overlooking, or is there no E?
This thread has been closed twice due to trolling, but as this is a potentially dangerous situation I would like the forums help.
Mods: if someone tries to troll this thread again, please just give them a slap and stop closing the dam thread!!!!
Parents live in an old farm house with a few conversions, due to this there are lots of overlapping electrics.
The current point of contention is an SWA feed.
This feeds 3 sockets in the kitchen (3/5 counter level sockets on one wall).
Why these are fed separately is beyond me, but irrelevant.
The SWA is 2 core, and although the SW is now glanded with an earth tab, there is no connection from this earth tab to the bar.
There is no apparent dedicated CPC for this circuit. I originally assumed that it passed on Zs due to parallel connections.
However last weekend I brought my multimeter over (could not bring the fluke for a Zs, long story).
I cont checked the earth pins from 2 adjacent sockets (but on different circuits).
I assumed I would get a reading of almost 0 as was expecting a borrowed earth.
What I got was a reading of over 1000Ohm.
To me this seems to indicate that there is no earth connection at all!
The house is on TN-C. Which frankly I know nothing at all about, it is on my to learn list =-)
Have sent the spark an e-mail, he says it is safe, any further question e-mail again. Have done to no response.
So to be clear I am not complaining about the lack of dedicated earth (parents house, their call), I am worried there is no earth connection.
Parents believe their spark, so do not want me messing around with stuff and doing tests that might knock the power off (parents house, their call, no matter how much it makes we want to scream)
So what on earth am I overlooking, or is there no E?
) Shhh!, You have the details of the electrician, check his NICEIC registration is not a forgery, pay for and get an independant electrician to do an assessment - at the end of the day its potentially lethal so what a few hundred quid when its your families safety, yes some parents are stubborn but tell them its your mate and hes looking at it for free... im sure you could sort it somehow!
