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Any advice would be greatly appreciated on this.

Visited a job the other day where the light circuit had blown at the board. We Isolated the mains and tested but neutral bar remained live. Found that a rogue twin and earth with its neutral was on the bar and was live however the line conductor had been disconnected previously.
Could anyone's experience shed some light on what might be going on that although the mains was isolated this had happened.
 
What are you measuring the voltage with. The rogue neutral may still serve a purpose for a circuit from another source so you will get potential from neutral to earth with your board isolated.
 
It's a Duspol Voltage tester which I use to make sure the mains was isolated before getting my fingers stuck in. I did think the rogue TandE might be from the communal stairwell lighting
 
Are there any UPs on the insatllation, safe isolation, also includes backefeeds from other sources, could be worth checkng.
 
Brendo said:
No UPs on site at all. I've disconnected it now and all communal lights remain functional. Begs the question why it's there to begin with
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Need to find out where it goes/comes from, or find out what doesn't work when it's disconnected.
 

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