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Probabily had them, the cooker and shower on all at the same time
Ah ! must have been one those environmentally friendly 10 Gigawatt garden fairy-light set-ups lol.
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Probabily had them, the cooker and shower on all at the same time
The extension was full of wateri'm struggling to understand how garden fairy lights blew the service fuse ?
surely theres a plug top fuse and the ring main device fitted downstream of the
dno cut-out ?
being outdoors. Was it rcd protected?The extension was full of water
which is yet another nail in the coffin of the dreaded 3036 fuse. not only do they sometimes not blow when required, but the arrangement is open to fitting unsuitable wire in the fuse holder.
I had a 60A DNO fuse blow feeding a storage heater beard which was drawing 83A (according to the engineer who replaced the 60A), and he said it is common for slightly overloaded 60A's like this to work happily for a few years then eventually give out, so it is quite possible that adding fairy lights pushed a 'worn' fuse over the edge.
would (should..lol) show up on an ECR.....which is yet another nail in the coffin of the dreaded 3036 fuse. not only do they sometimes not blow when required, but the arrangement is open to fitting unsuitable wire in the fuse holder.
well...aye..i suppose...how many home owners are there in the UK with 3036 rewireables, that wouldn't know a EICR if it jumped up and bit them in the arse? ( the home owners, that is, not the fuses )
just scrollin through some of this....
seen some beautys n all....such as
someone goin on about pullin bullits under load.
quick fixes with 30A fuse wire in parallel (2)
just thought i`d mention that the service head is DNO property.....so get them to come and sort it...
at least someone bothered to ask the obvious: why did the bullit operate in the first place?....
i think someones been buggerin about with that cutout myself......
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Anyway happy customer (with my service) lesson learned by them.
Would that be "In future ring the supplier" lol
If you read it I think you'll see the fuse was blown when I arrived and it was because there was a extension lead outside full off water!!!!!
There only 2 reasons for pulling that fuse. 1 for isolation 2 because the customer has no power and the rest of the road has so I think it should be removed to check.
Or should I just walk away and tell them to call the dno.
I can't believe some of the crap you guys post.
I turned to you lot to ask for some help at 11 o'clock on a Sunday night realised they'd blown the main fuse. I didn't have a 60a, only a 100a.
Something that could have been sorted fairly swiftly.
I though u lot might be the type to help a fellow spark.
Maybe not
Anyway happy customer (with my service) lesson learned by them.
All back and running by 8:30am
If you read it I think you'll see the fuse was blown when I arrived and it was because there was a extension lead outside full off water!!!!!
There only 2 reasons for pulling that fuse. 1 for isolation 2 because the customer has no power and the rest of the road has so I think it should be removed to check.
Or should I just walk away and tell them to call the dno.
I can't believe some of the crap you guys post.
I turned to you lot to ask for some help at 11 o'clock on a Sunday night realised they'd blown the main fuse. I didn't have a 60a, only a 100a.
Something that could have been sorted fairly swiftly.
I though u lot might be the type to help a fellow spark.
Maybe not
Anyway happy customer (with my service) lesson learned by them.
All back and running by 8:30am
Why didn't you just use you voltage tester on the DB?
Good luck with explaining to the DNO why you replaced one of there fuses.
If you test for voltage across the main terminals at the cu(or at the isolator if fitted) and you have non then anything before this is a DNO problem,I think the posters who were against pulling the main fuse were trying to warn you in case anything went wrong and you were injured,think about it this way you remove the fuse and something goes wrong and you get hurt then you have no claim against DNO as you should not have been tampering with their equipment.I was in a pub over in yorkshire some years ago and the lights were flickering,the landlord said it had been going on for a while and would I take a look while I was there,I diagnosed a loose connection in the cut out and rang the dno,The flash was quite spectacular as the unit went bang as he tried to remove the fuse.Ended up having to fit a new cutout and repair the cable,hate to think what could have happened if I had tried it myself that day,maybe I could have got the bill.If your happy to test a fuse by just measuring a lack of voltage
Good luck to you
If your happy to test a fuse by just measuring a lack of voltage
Good luck to you
The point been the dno would have replace the fuse but not found the fault.
If I just left it to the dno then they still would have had a fault.
I personally like to be their to make sure once the fuse was replaced they had no problems. So For me this was worth it.
Due to the day and the fact the customer was a fair distance from my home, and the customer was planning to up root the family to have christmas at a family members, waiting for the dno seamed a second option to picking up a fuse and replacing it.
the point being robert that youThe point been the dno would have replace the fuse but not found the fault.
If I just left it to the dno then they still would have had a fault.
I personally like to be their to make sure once the fuse was replaced they had no problems. So For me this was worth it.
Due to the day and the fact the customer was a fair distance from my home, and the customer was planning to up root the family to have christmas at a family members, waiting for the dno seamed a second option to picking up a fuse and replacing it.
Are you really a donut. It has nothing to do with being a rogue trader. There are clearly 2 issues, a fault in the customers property, which you can work on and the main fuse/cut-out blowing that the DNO should attend too.That could have been a possibility but you know what they say about assuming things like that, but I found the fault. I think telling a customer the fuse was probably warn call the supplier and going home would look very rouge trader.
Had this been not so close to Christmas it could have been left to try but I know like leaving a job not knowing the outcome. As I would have to return for no cost.
Which in this case I would have had to
get a grip of yoursen Biff and wake up!!i've got to hand it to Mr. Turnbull , he's made a robust and staunch defence of his business practices in the face of alot of flack over the pages of this thread and hats off to him.
its no bloody concern of anyone else as to how he earns a living , if i could earn £100 an hour at xmas or any other time of year i'd take it and anyone who didnt like it can jog the f*** on.
some of the posters on here would be better off time travelling back to 1950's soviet moscow where the state can decide how much we all earn.
I have no concern how people earn there money along as they are not trying to ripoff me or anyone else I know.
But he came on here asking about doing something illegal, the problem could have been solved alot quicker though as I have pointed out previously.
The two things were related, I personally wouldn't be happy till I saw the customer up and running.
If I had missed something I would have to return, a 60 mile round trip which would have been Christmas Eve evening or even Christmas Day. For free
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