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I think there is something wrong with this...
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this was a hidden spur causing shop front lights not to work
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new shopping center
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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.
Crikey! Did you have to take your own flask of tea? Wouldn't they make you a brew? ;-)
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 !
Is there a prize for spotting all the faults?!
Go for it
Just to add insult, it's a 1 way lighting circuit and there are 2 reds and 1 black at the switch, which, is actually a 2 way intermediate switch too...
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How irritating.
Is this an old fashioned way of doing things? (surely a 1 way switch is only ever 2 wires (live feed and s/w) or do we wonder if there was another switch hidden away somewhere?!
Well, it's a rewire job anyway...
low energy lamp keeps flickering after being turned off ?? this is happening on 2 lamps on 2 seperate circuits ?? The lamp on each circuit both happened to be 2 wayed.. i have replaced the strappers ...
Never assume anything, it could save your life!
You don't say where this switch is located. Sometimes you find bedrooms have been refurbished and a 2way cord pull switch has been left above the new ceiling.
I suppose it doesn't have to be a bedroom..... Perhaps the building has been ';worked on' and a switch has been 'bridged out' or plastered over? Or both???
Hi Just want to hello as I'm new to the forum & to say that this is good thread to read, cheers
Replaced a shower a few years ago, the punters told me they were in the shower and it burst into flames, their solution to this, point the shower head at the shower, whilst still standing naked in the bath.......lucky!
Found this last night, she's a beauty LOL
Found in a db
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ection i found this breaker supplying a single phase board.
yes Tony my mate got a -------ing doing same on Blackpool prom with bicarb I think it was, got fed up of them trying to knick his chips,apparently they are a protected species,the gulls not the chips lolI’ve had a 11KV board explode due to vermin getting in to the bus-bar chamber. Anything that gets rid of them is OK by be.
Got in sever trouble on a Norwegian north sea crossing. The crew didn’t like us squeezing calcium carbide into a ball of bread and throwing in to the air.
Not our fault the seagulls would swoop down and snatch it before it hit the water!
Do a bit of chemistry and you’ll work out the result.
Gets rid of vermin! QUICK!
When you say you are getting a live voltage on the cpc's of circuits, What voltage are you getting and what are you checking it against as a form of reference and what instrument are you using.This one has baffled me (doesn't take alot): I've been called to a house that has a problem with the upstairs light circuit's cpc being live, enough to detect a fault on my voltage tester but not enough to light a neon. The stair well lights, which are on the downstairs circuit are also cpc live. The rest of the downstairs light are good. There are also 4 sockets with the cpc live(non of these are adequate to shock nor trip the RCD). I have checked the wiring on all light switches and roses, Extractor fans and shaving points, I have checked all visible wiring in the loft and apart from some dubious use of some chock blox where the owner has changed light fittings(which I have checked and ensured they are now safe) I can not find the fault. I'm obviously missing something but don't know what. Any ideas? Also, the MET is showing no voltage.
Your still not saying what you are testing between, obviously cpc and...........?I'm getting between 60 and 70 volts at each earth terminal. I'm using my mft to determin this. I'm also checking with my led voltage detector. I've carried out continuity with readings ranging from 0.45 ohms to 0.6 ohms.
why are they protected? they're just rats with wings.
I was testing between live and earth.
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