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I recently installed about 10 (user supplied) Trendi Switch 2-gang sockets. When tested with a socket tester, 4 of them reported an earth fault on just one side only. I told the customer to take them back, which he did. However, when he replaced one of them with a new item, he got the same fault. After a bit of playing around he discovered that if you tighten down the unused earth terminal, the problem seems to go away. Haven't measured Zs yet to see if there is any difference, but this is the first time I have come across this requirement in a 2-gang socket.
 
I'm sure there was a similar post on here recently where the earth terminals had to be linked, may not have been a Trendi.
It sounds like the Trendi may have an internal link which needs the terminal tightened to make contact.

Update,

This is the back of a Trendi from their website, looks like the brass terminal which presumably is the earth pin on the front, is not directly connected to the link across the back and to the screw holes.
I'd guess the bar drops down slightly when the screw is tightened

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Looks like you need to link the lives and neutrals as well?

silly design.

Indeed you do according to their own "technical" information - no continuity between L, N or E of 2 gang sockets.


Can think of one place these ought to be fitted and it certainly isn't on a wall.
 
Indeed you do according to their own "technical" information - no continuity between L, N or E of 2 gang sockets.
Thinks… if you use one of these “double” sockets as a spur from a ring final, then if you have to link in the second socket that will be a spur off a spur.
or am I being unduly pendantic??
 
Thinks… if you use one of these “double” sockets as a spur from a ring final, then if you have to link in the second socket that will be a spur off a spur.
or am I being unduly pendantic??
? maybe not unduly pedantic....
....but pedantic enough for me to be pedantic back and say "show me a reg which prohibits that anyway" ?
 
don't start all that again!
Don’t worry I have bigger issues on my plate - last night my wife said “would it be complicated to get a hot tub?!”
I did a forum search and left her reading….
 
Don’t worry I have bigger issues on my plate - last night my wife said “would it be complicated to get a hot tub?!”
I did a forum search and left her reading….
Getting one is easy, making it safe to use appears to be the issue.

Did you point her to the recent ones of Hot tubs apparently being connected correctly, yet people are still getting shocks?
 
Saving money by only producing a single socket, then different plastic mounting frames to make it a 1 gang or 2 gang....

They seem to have done the same with the intermediate - coupled two 2-way switches mechanically but left the job of interconnecting them electrically to the installer.
 

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