Things you see but cant believe!!

[chiplard]

Can you spot the work of an idiot.

 

[malcolmsanford]

It's the old colour coding light green for neutral, used all the time back in when no one gave a ---- about colours.

or

I DIY TN-C system

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Line supplying neutral bar?

 

[Deleted member 26818]

I think you might want to adjust your colour balance.
Those neutral conductors look brown instead of black.

 

[LlandrilloSpark]

A link from Earth bar to Neutral bar in green 6mm?

 

[trev]

A link from Earth bar to Neutral bar in green 6mm?

beautiful work, whoever did that is a credit to our profession. Hope you're picking up the sarcasm guys

 

[Richard Burns]

A categoric YES I think.

Hey it is all fine, there are no RCDs so it wont matter! (oops!)
Pity he ran out of green and yellow sleeving and forgot about correct termination with no copper showing!
I like what I assume is the main earth going round the CU to the left.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

beautiful work, whoever did that is a credit to our profession. Hope you're picking up the sarcasm guys

I don't like the fact that not only has the order of the conductors in the neutral bar been interupted, but also the link will be interupted when the main switch is open.
Should have taken the link to the feed side of the main switch.

 

[Goody]

Green lead links the neutral bar and the earth bar, probably an attempt to make it a TN-C-S system, I guess.

 

[Knobhead]

and forgot about correct termination with no copper showing!

I would defy you or anyone else to terminate in one of those boards without any conductive part showing. Look at the terminal shrouding.
They were what we had available at the time.
MCB’s? Nobody trusted those foreign things in their house! I knew they were the way forward but after my mate’s house caught fire I didn’t trust them.

 

[Darkwood]

It all looks fine to me:nuke:..... il tidy and correct it when i get paid :icon1:

 

[Adam W]

It's all good and well nitpicking, but the question is "does it work?"

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Not with reversed polarity

 

[GLENNSPARK]

The worst thing about it n all is theres recent work gone on here (new colours but STILL no sleaving) whoever attempted to pull that new cable in to that shower of **** whants stopping as they should have either condemned it or sorted it all out first..........

 

[Guest123]

Not fed off a genny is it???:ninja:

 

[Knobhead]

Not with reversed polarity

Where’s the reversed polarity?

 

[robskiing]

Where’s the reversed polarity?

Have a close look at the mains tails that looks like brown live conductor fed into the neutral terminal of which them old wylex fuseboards are not DP isolated i know that because i once got a nasty belt isolating a shower switch some clown reversed polarity on the fuseboard

 

[Knobhead]

Wylex boards were DP isolated, I’ve stripped enough of them to know.
If you can’t tell the difference between brown and black then I’d start getting worried.

 

[netblindpaul]

robskiing,
I would say that the L/H sheathed tail is black, but my eyes and this computer do leave a lot to be desired, plus the white balance is all to pot on the pic, probably an old tungsten lamp to blame there!

 

[netblindpaul]

Tony beat me to it, looks like his peepers are not as bad as he makes out

 

[Adam W]

Not with reversed polarity

Wouldn't it?

 

[netblindpaul]

Mind if it was reverse polarity, with the DIY TN-C connection at the board, then the DNO fuse should have gone bang a long time ago, or else the link.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

My boss and i see quite a lot of these with no sleaving on cpcs...which tends to follow around the whole install........

 

[robskiing]

Ok ive been shot down with flames but you enlarge the picture that tail is not so distinctively black as the outgoing neutrals

 

[netblindpaul]

rob,
Not shot down in flames, just nicked on the wing mate!
The pic is not very clear I agree.

 

[Knobhead]

Tony beat me to it, looks like his peepers are not as bad as he makes out

I had to take it in to photoshop to be sure :sunny:

 

[GLENNSPARK]

The badly made off incoming tail in the photo is black.....very poor on the IP n all at the top of the board............

 

[netblindpaul]

All in all we seem to agree it's a rubbish install!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

All in all we seem to agree it's a rubbish install!

But what i cant get is WHY the hell would someone add insult to injury by pulling new stuff in to this..?............

 

[netblindpaul]

Because they don't care, or perhaps more worryingly they know no better because they have not been adequately trained...

I dare not say any more!

 

[UKMeterman]

Reminds me of the typical quality of a early 1980's barrats house, both phase and neutral from the 60A switch fuse to the consumer unit were wired in red.. The temporary fix when I discovered it was to check polarity and then use some black tape...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Mind you...been at the "joint box" house today (as we have christened it)...lol.....i think at the last count we have had about 20 odd out of there.....a poor install by any standards..........

 

[netblindpaul]

What you partake in as far as herbal remedies within your own life we don't need to know about! :rofl::tounge_smile:

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Where’s the reversed polarity?

Hello

Not sure if covered already but to me, the tail supplying the visible LHS of the main isolator on the old wylex board is....brown...? There are black cables to it's left and it looks brown (tail) to me. I also am assuming the LHS of the DP iso feeds the neutral bar-can't be sure from memory but makes sense.

That's where I see it but am always ready to take a good cuffing for being wrong....