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Oh dear
What I am about to ask is called 'reflective learning' and is a very effective way of learning and implementing 'lessons learned' in the future:
a) what did you learn?;
and
b) what will be your practice in the future?
HHD, was your wiring in singles ? I only ask because I can't understand how you could mix up neutrals if using twin & earth as the neutrals would share the same composite cable sheath as the line conductors ?
There's a 19 core SWA going out to the pens and 12 twin and earths going to a 12 gang plate switch, so the neutrals in the RCBO's were from the 19 core and the line conductors in the RCBO's were from the twin and earth. Quite a bit of cable! But I still shouldn't have got them mixed up!
Hang on, you have the phase conductors going down the SWA, and the corresponding neutrals going back through flat twin & cpc's?
Well that makes it understandable, very easy to mix them up, and I'm sure you won't be the first or last to do this.
Usually when I'm trying to concentrate on something like that the customer decides it's a good time to start chatting away. :dizzy2:
a) I sometimes hold my diagrams upside down when tired.
b) To hold my diagrams up the right way and drink more coffee.
ps... and to perhaps take heed of my own threads!!!! http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk...55-odd-request-regarding-phantom-voltage.html
Still confused, it seems that the lines & neutrals to and from the rcbo's are down different cables?No that's the OPPOSITE to what he said- the switched line conductors would be in the SWA too but via the T&E to and from the switches.
Still confused, it seems that the lines & neutrals to and from the rcbo's are down different cables?
OK...?
It follows a general method of installation work which is all the rage these days. It's called 'bodge it and scarper'
That's out of order inferring that HHD is a bodger, the bloke seems conscientious to me , and there's absolutely nothing wrong with the method either !
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