Hello, yank living in Chile. Electric is the same as UK...220v. I am installing a whole house ATS. The generator is a floating neutral. The manual states the neutral to ground bonding must be in the ATS. Being a yank I am used to working with 4 leads 2 hot 1 neutral 1 ground. Now I have...
I have an outlet in my home that is wired in a non standard manner. Its neutral and ground are connected together based on the wiring diagram below. Please note I have identified the root cause of the 40V and 17V and fixed it. So I got 120V between hot and ground, 0V between neutral and ground...
Just checking, what I think I already believe.
Doing a pre-install test of some outdoor sockets on a ring final. So far, confirmed bonding, incoming polarity, Ze and Pfc and RCD Test on circuit, everything fine and within regs.
However on testing Ring Final, Line came out fine (0.7), Neutral...
Hi people. On my AM2 they supplied black insulation tape with the letters L or N on for tails identification. Does anyone know where I can purchase these please? I also remember they had L1 L2 L3 tapes.
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I own a commercial storage unit where I keep my boat, trailers, etc. I went to install a Smart Switch in it, so I could remotely control the lights if needed (i.e. some times I will forget to turn them off when I leave). I bought a witch, took the cover off, and realized I don't have a...
Thoughts on this please, functional earth leads obviously showing signs of heat damage, the greenish coloured neutral leads compared to the blue ones are coloured throughout their length, maybe heat has caused this?
I took off my old ceiling rose in my garage to put up new lights and noticed that the loop in has two live wires and no neutral, I'm new to this so want to improve my understanding.
Where the two earths are sheathed together this is the switch and loop in, the wire with two lives is the loop...
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I have a MFT1553 Mega tester. Is there a feature on the tester to test 3phase RCBOs when there’s no neutral present? Pretty sure mot. Was wondering if i could temporarily connect a neutral on a Wander lead and use the three wire test method?
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John
There has been a stolen neutral incident in West London on Thursday morning, someone stole the neutral link from the substation and then it was quite spectacular inside 300+ properties and a Petrol Filling Station! At the start of the emergency the fire service had 8 fire engines and their...
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I have a site where they have some sockets fed via Three Phase and Neutral and others TP with no N. Rather than both types of sockets for both types of appliances, was looking at 'standardising' and upgrading all plugs to TP and N. And where the appliance did not need a N, it would be left...
I have just received a wifi switch that does not require a neutral. As far as I thought, it would then be a straight swap with the existing 2 gang switch.
However, I can’t seem to see an Earth on this new switch and looking at the current wiring I can’t see how it would switch over.
Any ideas?
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Doing an EICR, have come across a couple of DBs, where the neutral goes straight onto the bar on Single phase boards.
Whats your views on this guys?
Should it have a requirement to be isolated? Is there a reg for? If so then it can be coded.
My boss thinks its dangerous. I don't, but...
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I am after a bit of advice if anyone can help. I got called to a job due to RCD tripping. Ir circuits and fault was on cooker. Disconnected cooker and fault gone from DB. The landlord tried to get the cooker fixed , but appliance engineer couldn’t fix, so he brought a new cooker. Today he...
So up until this morning I thought I had seen most faults in an electrical installation, but this one today has me stumped and I’m not sure if I’m being stupid and the issue is staring me right in the face! long story short we went to a domestic property with a TNCS to install a supply to a...
Favour for a mate has turned into a nightmare. Really appreciate any comments on the below!
Was asked to look at some sockets which have apparently been "sparking".......
17th edition board. 100amp/30ma RCD as main switch and only additional protection for 11 circuits. Unsure if that conforms...
So I've seen some posts in the past about smart switches needing a neutral at the switch. I have a rewire coming up and was planning to use 3 core and earth as the switch line for some switches (2 gang switch will need just 1 neutral from a 3 core earth and the other SL can be T+E) as the switch...
For a lighting circuit, Do you consider it bad practice to have joint in neutral at a switch box instead of separate joint box or 3-plate ceiling rose?
Hi All, apologies for a long post I'm currently in my in-laws house abroad and while having some break I also fixing electrical issues as it seems to be quite few.
It's a farm estate and wiring quite old with some DIY involvement over the years in Ideal world I would rewire whole thing but it...
I have an Eaton 125 amp panel with a ground bus bar with 24 slots and 14 neutral slots. I have a 6 breaker Reliance 7500w transfer panel connected to it. The main panel has 4 unused breakers. I need to increase slots on my neutral side. Can I add an additional neutral busbar to the existing one?
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