Something not quite right!?

[rolyberkin]

I think someone forgot to connect this in 1989? Found it poked down the hockey stick!

 

[snowhead]

OOps

 

[static zap]

Any temperamental RCDs fitted ?

 

[Andy78]

I've heard you only need the green and yellow ones in case there's faults. So if there's been no faults it wasn't needed. Maybe that's why it wasn't connected ?

 

[pirate]

Bet if you connect that something will go wrong!
All 44 LED lamps will flicker, there will be buzz and hum on the HiFi, and none of the intermediate switches will work

 

[rolyberkin]

Talking to the DNO operator was like trying to explain what was wrong with it to my to my wife I can see what has happened, someone has poked the earth down the Hockey stick, a stones throw from the cabinet is an earth rod for an outbuilding, when connecting up they have assumed that the cable went to the earth rod.
I think this just goes to show how important it is to have any work undertaken by a competent person, this was found as the result of a fitting a pendant light for a friend of the Mrs on my way home! Also goes to show how important it is to test however small the job!

 

[DPG]

Great find!

 

[PEG]

Good find,pal...it's just a shame the owner would think you more of a hero,if you had merely lifted their kitten down,off a moderately high tree...

 

[Silly Sausage]

I hope you put it back?
Earth wires belong in the ground.

 

[Rpa07]

Nothing surprises us anymore!
I was at a house couple of months ago and I connected a waggling earthing conductor that had been like that for 30 years eversince the woman moved in. TNS.
Zs went from 247 to 0.24 odd. Now that woman DID think I was a hero . . . Until I stood on the kitten!