unbelievable

[Smugley]

Was doing some work in a flat today and found someone had wired up three electric heaters, with two flexes coming out of each. One flex connected to a fused spur off the E7 board. The other flex to a plug, in a socket off the main board. Unbelievable! So, the heater could be run simultaneously off both, and when pulled out, the pins on the plug are live!! Didn't look like a DIY job either.

 

[Sintra]

Are you sure that this heater isn't meant to have a dual supply. E7 for night time storage and normal supply for either a boost fan or convector heater.

 

[migspat30]

what was the point of the E7 if it is plugged in 24 /7

 

[Smugley]

Both flexes were terminated in the one and only terminal block. I think the installer wanted to give them the option of running it in the daytime but using the E7 tarif at night. Just didn't think of the consequences if the plug was unplugged.

 

[Hawk81]

As sintra says the E7 heats the storage heater at night and the mains is for the boost fan during the day.

 

[Hawk81]

Both flexes were terminated in the one and only terminal block. I think the installer wanted to give them the option of running it in the daytime but using the E7 tarif at night. Just didn't think of the consequences if the plug was unplugged.

Well that is a different matter and very dangerous. If someone was working at the E7 board it would have been back fed too.

 

[Smugley]

Exactly. Yes, they are combination heaters but not designed for dual supply.

 

[Smugley]

Oh, and to top it off, two heaters were on the ring and the third spurred off the immersion heater circuit along with a shower pump.

 

[nikmet]

Reminds me of a job i went to a couple of years back, the house had lost power to about 10 13a socket outlets on the ground floor, so the husband had repowered them up from the first floor sockets by using a long flex with a plug on each end!! I was VERY lucky not to kill myself that day as i had unplugged the live pin plug before discovering it :-O

 

[Geordie Spark]

Reminds me of a job i went to a couple of years back, the house had lost power to about 10 13a socket outlets on the ground floor, so the husband had repowered them up from the first floor sockets by using a long flex with a plug on each end!! I was VERY lucky not to kill myself that day as i had unplugged the live pin plug before discovering it :-O

I found a very similar thing on an upstairs lighting circuit which had an intermittent fault.

The householder "fixed" it by connecting a bit of flex into the landing light ceiling rose and plugging the other end into a 13A socket outlet on the landing.

It meant that when the plug was removed the pins could have been live if the intermittent fault wasn't present at that time.

There was a 2 year old toddler who played about on that landing .........