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smartin1612
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Found it - short circuit!
7 frickin days I've lost to this, with the two main rooms upstairs in darkness, not great for home workers, the amount of meetings I've held looking like something on Halloween...
I made mention of my Asrock pc build back in 2005 - it was terminals:
My Asrock motherboard had a bit too much solder on the back of the circuit board.
It worked outside the case, but the moment I installed it, nothing. No power, no resistance, nothing. No CMOS, no BIOS.
Take the motherboard out, and the pc would fire-up.
Took me two days to resolve, and was only as I was about to send back did I discover it: the screw in the middle of the motherboard was pushing the board down just too much, it was contacting the case and shorting.
Double-checked the terminals of the lampholder and sure enough pushing the netural away a bit, the lamp fired up.
Netural was too close to live and was shorting, though not killing the rcd - gotta look into that.
7 frickin days I've lost to this, with the two main rooms upstairs in darkness, not great for home workers, the amount of meetings I've held looking like something on Halloween...
I made mention of my Asrock pc build back in 2005 - it was terminals:
My Asrock motherboard had a bit too much solder on the back of the circuit board.
It worked outside the case, but the moment I installed it, nothing. No power, no resistance, nothing. No CMOS, no BIOS.
Take the motherboard out, and the pc would fire-up.
Took me two days to resolve, and was only as I was about to send back did I discover it: the screw in the middle of the motherboard was pushing the board down just too much, it was contacting the case and shorting.
Double-checked the terminals of the lampholder and sure enough pushing the netural away a bit, the lamp fired up.
Netural was too close to live and was shorting, though not killing the rcd - gotta look into that.