Recent content by hawkman

Hi everyone, my house is equipped with Lutron Rania dimmer switches throughout and after a lot of research, I have learned that these are incompatible with LED lights. Technically you could put a "dummy load" in the circuit but I don't want to do that as it removes the primary reason to put in...

Luck. Yes. I bought a multimeter on eBay and the seller threw in a plug tester. I laughed and thought nothing of it. Until it arrived and I used it. The rest you can see above. I know there is a lot of hate about these testers but if I hadn’t used it, I wouldn’t have found this issue. And...

That is exactly what happened. I just had a professional NAPIT registered electrician come to basically swap the L and N wires going into the CU. The previous "electrician" neither did any testing NOR did he even mark the wires with blue/brown. Two grey wires are VERY easy to confuse. This...

Just tested with my Fluke 117 true RMS multimeter and I’m getting 238v from E to N. That’s not right. I’m thinking something has been done by the electrician that installed my consumer unit in the garage - after he installed it, two of my low voltage lights weren’t working properly and I...

I had another consumer unit installed during a garage renovation. I checked the outlets in there with the tester and they all registered as "correct". I've got a Fluke 117 multimeter, would I be able to diagnose this situation better using it? If so, what would be the recommended approach...

I recently received one of these RCD testers as part of an eBay purchase. I hadn't really thought to test the wiring in my house before, but when I plugged it into the first socket in my house, it showed "incorrect" with L and N reversed. Thinking this might just be one outlet, I tested others -...