How easy for the mind to be diverted when all is going well .
Try to put you in the picture without rambling on , my neighbour's kitchen lights keep tripping the MCB ....can I have a look .
2 gang switch with 6 downlights & 9 downlights ............9 downlights are tripping after around 1 minute...been working for years. Looked last week , thinking it'll be a melted GU10 lampholder flex .........no it was the T/E switchwire & N with a L to E fault ..under the bathroom floor , all tiled , no access , can't get to it .
I disconnected lights , tested the 9 lights loop all good , my only solution was to return today ..& feed lights from the other end.... fish cable from last light , down behind cupboard to a 3A spur feed it from cupboard lights spur ..fed from ringmain. How can it go wrong ?
I was reconnecting a downlight at the other end , whoever did them made it hard to get the cover on so I re-do it , from L- N-E to L-E -N ...just need to move one of the lampholder wires across............someone at the door calling ...looking for someone down the road ...sort him out , put the light back in the ceiling . I now have the lamp across L - E but am happily plodding on ......... switch on ...RCD trips now 'cos I'm on the ring main.......but why !!...I know these 9 lights are clear , its just a radial , I know !!...I must have re- connected the faulty sw/wire instead of the loop at the other end . No its correct. Still tripping ! I now have a L - E fault ...wheres that come from ? , I tested it all , it was fine , how can this happen to me , I'm Evans Electric FFS , I'm supposed to be a professional .....the lights should come on ...... they cannot fail to come on ....because I ...the Great Deke.... The one time Spark of the Year ....has proved the circuit to be OK ... ......has done this a million times.......
I break the radial loop in the centre and re-test .... those 5 are now clear , these 4 have a fault .......and then the penny drops , I was called to the door , memory span of a demented bluebottle ...Oh look I left that fitting hanging out .......Oh look , I created an L -E fault then spent 1/2 hour trying to find it !!!! :C Oh well , keep it to yourself or other Forumites will be pointing & sniggering . ....yes best say nothing .
Try to put you in the picture without rambling on , my neighbour's kitchen lights keep tripping the MCB ....can I have a look .
2 gang switch with 6 downlights & 9 downlights ............9 downlights are tripping after around 1 minute...been working for years. Looked last week , thinking it'll be a melted GU10 lampholder flex .........no it was the T/E switchwire & N with a L to E fault ..under the bathroom floor , all tiled , no access , can't get to it .
I disconnected lights , tested the 9 lights loop all good , my only solution was to return today ..& feed lights from the other end.... fish cable from last light , down behind cupboard to a 3A spur feed it from cupboard lights spur ..fed from ringmain. How can it go wrong ?
I was reconnecting a downlight at the other end , whoever did them made it hard to get the cover on so I re-do it , from L- N-E to L-E -N ...just need to move one of the lampholder wires across............someone at the door calling ...looking for someone down the road ...sort him out , put the light back in the ceiling . I now have the lamp across L - E but am happily plodding on ......... switch on ...RCD trips now 'cos I'm on the ring main.......but why !!...I know these 9 lights are clear , its just a radial , I know !!...I must have re- connected the faulty sw/wire instead of the loop at the other end . No its correct. Still tripping ! I now have a L - E fault ...wheres that come from ? , I tested it all , it was fine , how can this happen to me , I'm Evans Electric FFS , I'm supposed to be a professional .....the lights should come on ...... they cannot fail to come on ....because I ...the Great Deke.... The one time Spark of the Year ....has proved the circuit to be OK ... ......has done this a million times.......
I break the radial loop in the centre and re-test .... those 5 are now clear , these 4 have a fault .......and then the penny drops , I was called to the door , memory span of a demented bluebottle ...Oh look I left that fitting hanging out .......Oh look , I created an L -E fault then spent 1/2 hour trying to find it !!!! :C Oh well , keep it to yourself or other Forumites will be pointing & sniggering . ....yes best say nothing .
