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Marky83
Hello,
Im new to this website and would be grateful of any advice.
Im a fully qualified electrician and got called to an early 1800's property this week to attend a socket that didnt work, well at least thats what i was told over the phone. Infact once i got there, the customer had 3 sockets not working. After a visual inspection and checking the sockets are fully functional i proceeded to test the circuit as they proved to be sound. Now i tested through live-earth and got 240V neutral-earth and got 0V but live-neutral i got 216V to the reason why the RCD trips out once there is a load on it.
There is an upstairs and downstairs ring circuit so i tried the voltage at the fuse board and on the other sockets round the house (including the ones on the same circuit) and all possible outlets and circuits came up L-E 240V N-E 0V and L-N 240V. As you can imagine i have tried everything possible i could think of at the time so if anybody can shed some light on this situation or if anybody has been in a similar situation, i would be very grateful of any help.
P.S I was meant to add in there, the property had a full rewire in 2003
Cheers
Marky83
Im new to this website and would be grateful of any advice.
Im a fully qualified electrician and got called to an early 1800's property this week to attend a socket that didnt work, well at least thats what i was told over the phone. Infact once i got there, the customer had 3 sockets not working. After a visual inspection and checking the sockets are fully functional i proceeded to test the circuit as they proved to be sound. Now i tested through live-earth and got 240V neutral-earth and got 0V but live-neutral i got 216V to the reason why the RCD trips out once there is a load on it.
There is an upstairs and downstairs ring circuit so i tried the voltage at the fuse board and on the other sockets round the house (including the ones on the same circuit) and all possible outlets and circuits came up L-E 240V N-E 0V and L-N 240V. As you can imagine i have tried everything possible i could think of at the time so if anybody can shed some light on this situation or if anybody has been in a similar situation, i would be very grateful of any help.
P.S I was meant to add in there, the property had a full rewire in 2003
Cheers
Marky83