Tell us about your faults!

[Kiers1970]

Make everything idiot proof and evolution will simply produce a more efficient idiot. There literally is no rest from the insane st
uff one comes across. mg_smile:
At least there is a 3 mm gap.

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at least there is a 3mm gap.

 

[Bobster]

This was still live when I got to it.

The bloke using the welder plugged into this had reported the welder to be not working correctly.

 

[Ohmyword]

Make everything idiot proof and evolution will simply produce a more efficient idiot. There literally is no rest from the insane stuff one comes across. mg_smile:


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Just when you think it's safe.........
Takes me back to the days of the 'chageover period' from 15A (round-pin) to the 13A ring main era. My Dad would bare the ends of flex back and push it in the socket using plastic rawl plugs. Oooppss!

 

[ash_s3]

Make everything idiot proof and evolution will simply produce a more efficient idiot. There literally is no rest from the insane stuff one comes across. mg_smile:


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Irony of the England key fob and foreign plug! Bet the occupiers of the property weren't locals!

 

[supasparxs]

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I think someone has lost a couple of screw

 

[Guest111]

got called over by the old lady down the road about a bulb beeping even when it was switched off,"never liked them fancy twisted things"(energy savers)she says "my old bulbs never beeped and this one has done it from day 1" turned out her battery was going in the smoke alarm next to the light fitting.so i replaced the battery,and the bulb as she wasnt convinced,as she said"well the alarms been in nearly 2 years and never done that before"didnt charge her,dont you just love oap,s they can really make me smile.

 

[wendyman]

Re: Tell us about your faults !

Sounds very much like a disconnected/floating neutral. But this post would be better placed, and answered, in its own thread. This thread is intended for those 'I can't believe what I have just found that some numpty of an installer has done and that I just had to fix' type of faults.

anybody else had anything along these lines of strange voltages ??

 

[QSGAZ]

Got Called out to a some conduit being hit. How i got a surprise as i thought it might be some conduit had just been a little loose. The idiot had ripped a full DB off the wall and four stop start controllers!!!

 

[Mr.Si]

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Got Called out to a some conduit being hit. How i got a surprise as i thought it might be some conduit had just been a little loose. The idiot had ripped a full DB off the wall and four stop start controllers!!!

One word: D'Oh!!!

 

[Ringo]

Simple one this, and luckily it hadn't caused any problems or injuries. I guess it doesn't "look" like the worst of the worst, but there's absolutely no excuse for it being left like this. The scary thing is that it had just been this way for who-knows-how-long. How many more like this out there?

Story is that I recently started a new job as an engineer, but in the first few days had to keep myself busy so decided to check the electrics in the workshop. There were some mystery breakers on the board so after investigation I'd identified where everything ended up. Scarily, this was found under the workbench, being on the other side of a wall-mounted switch in the 'on' position. The cover was initially in place, so to the untrained eye there would be no need to suspect anything amiss. Basically here was a live cable sitting in metal conduit just waiting for the chance to bite. Lots of people use the workshop for lots of things. Needless to say it's all gone now!

 

[Mr.Si]

I think there is something wrong with this...



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[Rampage]

I think there is something wrong with this...

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[FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Is there a prize for spotting all the faults?![/FONT]

 

[bigdaddy]

this was a hidden spur causing shop front lights not to work


new shopping center

 

[bigdaddy]

a recent call out to a fire started by the supply service head, spent the day there with fire investgators and supply company investgators. in the 3rd picture you can just make out the remains of the supply cable, luckerly it had had a new fire door fitted the month previous or the whole building probably would have gone up.

 

[bigdaddy]

found this this week doing a periodic test and inspection, had to do a tempory reconnection on it, just waiting on order to replace.

 

[bigdaddy]

this was at a job we were tendering for, yes thats a live service head three phase open the the elements, old building was just removed around it, glad we didnt get that one to sort out. btw it was fenced off lol

 

[Ohmyword]

this was a hidden spur causing shop front lights not to work
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new shopping center

Crikey! Did you have to take your own flask of tea? Wouldn't they make you a brew? ;-)

 

[Ohmyword]

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a recent call out to a fire started by the supply service head, spent the day there with fire investgators and supply company investgators. in the 3rd picture you can just make out the remains of the supply cable, luckerly it had had a new fire door fitted the month previous or the whole building probably would have gone up.

Ironic that the building's Fire Exit is immediately adjacent to this 'mains room'!

 

[bigdaddy]

Crikey! Did you have to take your own flask of tea? Wouldn't they make you a brew? ;-)

unfortunely not, this was done over night and couldn't start till the shop was empty at 22:00 all the staff dissappered leaving us with a security guard that followed us everywhere.

 

[Flyingsparks]

Got called out one new years eve many years ago - the customer said that her kids were getting shocks when climbing into the bath.
Checked the cast iron bath to earth and their was no voltage present.

I noticed that the carpet was very wet so put my volt meter probes between the bath and the carpet and found that there was about 75 volts.

I moved my probe across the carpet and the voltage started to increase as I got closer to the toilet.
Put my probe directly on one of the screws that held down the toilet, and bingo I got 240V.

Turned off the power, removed the screw, powered back up and the voltage had disappeared.

Floorboards came up next and I found that the screw which was about 6" long had gone straight through the cooker cable which was running through a hole in the joist below. Bloody plumbers !

By the time I got back home new years eve was almost over and I was the only one who was sober !