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You could point out to him that when the lamp fails, he will need to change it. Because he will probably be standing in front of the PIR at the time and blocking the natural light, the circuit will go live, the new lamp will light as soon as the pins make contact and he will burn his fingers...

Why don't you ask the landlord to turn his lights on and off again during the day, as a test, to see if your RCD trips then. It might bolster (or disprove) your case.

Whip the neutral tail out of the RCD neutral busbar, knock of all the MCB's and try again. If it reacts as is should, you're looking at the wrong circuit.

Is this to get the Guinness from your fridge to your glass? :D Surely you're not grtting lazy in your latter years? :innocent ;)

I've just been down to Lidl to get one of these. Arrived there at 7.15am and got the last but one out of twenty. Thanks for the heads-up, Sprocket. ---------- Post Auto-Merged at 08:47 ---------- Previous post was made at 07:59 ---------- Just been having a play with this and found a

Must have been a different Capri. The curry I had was called Volcano. :D

Back in the Eighties, I was interviewing for engineering workshop machinists. One particular lad with a really nice demeanour, I asked him if he'd ever used a pillar drill. He said, "No, but I borrowed my Dads Black & Decker and didn't break it". I thought, what the hell, give him a chance...

Sorry, was that your capri?

Now I'm really feeling old. :( I went to both the Weeley Pop Festival in 1971 and the Lincoln Pop Festival in 1972. Maggie Bells' performance at Lincoln was absolutely incredible considering her boyfriend had been electrocuted on stage about three weeks earlier. One of my fondest memories. :x

Which probably means that quite a few people like them! Never used them myself, though.

??? Nowadays I have a problem remembering what I read an hour ago, let alone a few years ago. Wasn't Google in "The Woodentops"? :Blushing :innocent

Never mind, jameseye, when the DNO or the meter monkeys comes to do their bit, it will probably be just a bit of old chipboard they found in the skip. Your backboard will positively shine, then. ;)

I think this is what most of us know and practice, but a very good link all the same. :Applaud

:^O LOL :^O And then it went "bang".

One of the disadvantages of modern digital testers is their high ohms-per-volt sensitivity. A good old fashioned analogue meter at, e.g. 1000 ohms/volt, draws enough current to kill any induced voltages. If I ever get unexplained readings such as yours, I root around in the van for the AVO and...

Keep in mind, you would only do this on an existing installation (PIR etc.) to save disconnecting everything. On a new install, you should do the full set of IR tests (L-E, L-N, N-E) before connecting anything.

Bit rough, mate, you could have got the board grain going the same way as the tin walls. :^O

If you look carefully at the top left, you will see a cable coming out of the isolator that has just been chopped off. Also, under the cobwebs, you will notice that the switch is ON. This used to be the feed-in from a generator set, long since gone. In theory, the genny input and the mains input...

I had a call from a customer last week to go and sort out the electrics in the barn. They had been the victim of a direct-hit lightning strike and the DNO had to come and replace the main fuse and the meter. The meter guy told the owner that the RCD wouldn't reset, and the changeover switch...

Nothing wrong with having a woman in charge. :coat