Hello All, just looking for a bit of clarification of possible please.
I retiled our kitchen and fitted metal faced light switches at the same time. These are all correctly wired including the earth.
Wife noticed "tingling" a while back when touching the switch but I never experienced it so put it down to the brushed suface of the switches. Anyway she has mentioned it again so I had a quick look tonight.
There are two ceiling lights in the kitchen on a switch each (seperate walls). I got the multimeter out and checked between the two switch faces, it showed continuity. I then checked between these and the plug socket earths expecting the same but it was open circuit!.
After puting the multimeter in voltage mode it's showing 60v ac between the plug socket earth and the switch face which is not good at all!.
Reading up it seems I should have an earth coming out of the consumer unit, and on each ceiling rose there should be a total of 3 earths (earth in, earth out to switch and earth out to next ceiling rose) all connected together.
My plan is to drop all the light fittings and switches and try and find the problem.
The house has been rewired at some point and on twin and earth cable.
I noticed the lighting circuit is not protected by an rcd, just an mcb is this ok with metal faced switches?.
I retiled our kitchen and fitted metal faced light switches at the same time. These are all correctly wired including the earth.
Wife noticed "tingling" a while back when touching the switch but I never experienced it so put it down to the brushed suface of the switches. Anyway she has mentioned it again so I had a quick look tonight.
There are two ceiling lights in the kitchen on a switch each (seperate walls). I got the multimeter out and checked between the two switch faces, it showed continuity. I then checked between these and the plug socket earths expecting the same but it was open circuit!.
After puting the multimeter in voltage mode it's showing 60v ac between the plug socket earth and the switch face which is not good at all!.
Reading up it seems I should have an earth coming out of the consumer unit, and on each ceiling rose there should be a total of 3 earths (earth in, earth out to switch and earth out to next ceiling rose) all connected together.
My plan is to drop all the light fittings and switches and try and find the problem.
The house has been rewired at some point and on twin and earth cable.
I noticed the lighting circuit is not protected by an rcd, just an mcb is this ok with metal faced switches?.