I have recently taken on a lecture role at a local college. Their facilities are in ---- state. My aim to rebuild/build a comprehensive fault finding and testing and inspection rig. I cannot find a schematic anywhere. I have the city and guilds one for the test rig, however, I’m after building a...
Evening all,
I had a quick Friday afternoon domestic job that has turned into a PITA and I'd appreciate your help.
While adding some new lights to a circuit, I found that the switch where I was taking the additional line from was actually switching the neutral. After much swearing I checked...
Hi folks,
Quick query for this still practicing regarding bill payment for a job not complete.
My partner recently employed an electrician to do some simple work, post a a bathroom re-fit. Extractor, lighting fit along with resolving a problem relating to switching of lights in hallway. Whilst...
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Gone to look at a intermittent ground floor sockets fault today, the RCBO was tripping at random times with no pattern.
Nailed down a potential leg between 2 sockets ( 0.01 ohms on IR test) and temporarily replaced it to get the radial circuit (2.5mm on 20a B curve) to get it back on...
Hi I'm trying to find if I have a fault in these to brakers of in the lines. The 32A braker leads as far as I know only to a junction box that use to be used for the old boiler. It's been off for a long long time but want it back on again but it keeps tripping out for some reason. I've turned...
About 5 years ago during a full refurb on my house I re-wired the property myself (old aluminium wiring) in line with 17th edition. I had it all checked by building control and received the EICR certificate which passed on each part without any faults etc.
The earthing arrangement is TN-C-S.
I...
Fault finding- does any one know how many faults out of seven you need to find to pass the AM2S fault finding section ? any info would be helpful. Thanks
Hi everyone,
I need some help with an electrical issue I'm experiencing. I recently created a new circuit for an electric oven at my friend's place, and when I returned home, my friend called to say that the two water pipes connected to the boiler were smoking.
When I arrived, I first measured...
Hi, I’m just wondering what sort of readings I can expect for faults on a multimeter? I’ve only ever used a multifunction tester. What readings can I expect for a short cct fault or a polarity fault? I know that open cct will be 0L/1, cheers
Hoping someone can give some input on what could be possible causes of what happened here. I am going to investigate the situation next week but for the time being I am trying to get as much input as possible to possible causes .
The install consists of 7x 100kW Huawei Grid Tied Inverters ,the...
Failed AM2 Fault Finding 3 times!!! hope somebody can help me, I’ve spoken with the examiner, he said my fault finding itself is fine it’s just my writing/explanation. Can someone give me some examples of what to write so I can pass it this time!? Thanks
Hi all,
My first post here, thought I'd see if it was possible to get some advice or tips...
Basically, I had a large amount of block paving and large concrete base laid at the far end (25m) of my garden a few months ago. Under this I had 3 core 16mm SWA laid.
(I most definitely can't vouch...
It's nice to see a real world fault-finding video that at least aims to follow a logical process. As we occasionally get posts about how to fault find I thought I'd share it. It's also realistic that there a few head scratcher moments where nothing quite makes sense, and the value of keeping...
Regular poster on here now! Like getting the opinions of more experienced electricians, my times not long out. Still find myself when I have to find a fault diving head first in and getting caught up in it, end up thinking the worst and most of the time it’s a simple fix. Please tell me this...
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Majority of the work I've done over the past 10 year or so has been new build full rewires and rewires of existing premises and because of this there are very rarely any faults to be found when carrying out the testing of the installations.
In a very short space of time, I've had...
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