Called out this evening
"I have no power in any of my sockets, but the trips are all on"
Opened splitload cu & was greeted by a rather sooty interior (forgot to take a piccy) & the melted rcd.
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/DSC00006.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/DSC00001.jpg
Not to clear from the picture but the neutral terminal (nearest my thumb) has been tightened right up missing the neutral tail, so the tail looks like it was probably sat loose in the socket behind the terminal clamp & not making direct contact.
The neutral tail had dropped out & ended up resting on the bussbar......pir label on the cu said it was tested last in 2007 & customer said they've had nothing done since the cu was changed Feb 2007.
How lucky were they.
I'm back tomorrow to put replacement MK rcd in, have fitted a merlinG as a stopgap.
"I have no power in any of my sockets, but the trips are all on"
Opened splitload cu & was greeted by a rather sooty interior (forgot to take a piccy) & the melted rcd.
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/DSC00006.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/DSC00001.jpg
Not to clear from the picture but the neutral terminal (nearest my thumb) has been tightened right up missing the neutral tail, so the tail looks like it was probably sat loose in the socket behind the terminal clamp & not making direct contact.
The neutral tail had dropped out & ended up resting on the bussbar......pir label on the cu said it was tested last in 2007 & customer said they've had nothing done since the cu was changed Feb 2007.
How lucky were they.
I'm back tomorrow to put replacement MK rcd in, have fitted a merlinG as a stopgap.