Arrrrrr help!

[paul b b]

Evening Chaps,

ok, job today, move socket from left had side of wall to other and disconect 2 fuse spurs that are no longer needed.

firs find out that 1 spur is needed, then find out that the ring is not a ring and is fed via jb from somewhere ( customer did not want me to chase the cable back) so i put the existing spur cable into a new fcu nr ceiling where customer asked, all ok, test first socket all ok, test second socket revers polarity, check wires all ok, test again, check wires again, still the same all looks ok first socket works fine second not, though all wiring looks ok.

any ideas?

paul

 

[Tooold]

I have seen reverse polarity on some fcu's before, check to see L & N connections at spur. Cant think of owt else

 

[Apache]

There's not a JB hidden somewhere with a LN reverse between the first and second socket?

 

[Badger]

thats what i thought on reading this pache

 

[matt.leung]

when u checked the socket polarity did u take the socket plate right off, as different manufactures 'L' and 'N' can be different...

 

[Lurch]

I'm still struggling to decipher the first post tbh. Is this fault on wiring you've installed?

I think all of this wiring is a radial of some sort between a couple of sockets and spurs on a wall, and if the feed into this part of the circuit is correct then all you need to do is strip everything apart, get a meter out and find out between which 2 points the polarity changes.

 

[paul b b]

I'm still struggling to decipher the first post tbh.

yeah sorry, it was late and after a long hard day.

the job was supose to be easy but the ring was not a ring and the kitchen socket that was on this supposed ring was feeding the socket in the living room and sockets on a island in center of the kitchen, so some new wires some old, well looks like a strip down job then, and searching for more jb,s

thanks

paul

 

[Nicky Tesla]

you said the wires all looked ok but did you check the voltage on them.

i dont think so, otherwise you would have said that your neutral wire was mysteriously live. :|

 

[paul b b]

i put croc clips on the cable and it said all was fine ( wrong polarity was with plug attachment) but i swaped them over and it said all was still fine??? just out of intrest i swaped the live conductors around in the socket and gor 45v or something with the plug attachment.

any other tests i could do before a compleat stripdown?

 

[Nicky Tesla]

45v prob induced voltage