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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    Got upstairs all done, up. Must been a fault in the shaver light or too much power from my bedroom.
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    Yeah ive got smoke machines thanks, ive done loads of lights, ovens, because i use to redo kitchens and showers years ago. Its just finding a wire fault is a new one for me, ive never had it before. Think because the house is on 1 big circuit the halogen lights must have been too powerful 200...
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    Ive managed to get the ground floor lights working (apart from lounge?). They started working since I disconnected a junction box in the loft. Next step I suppose it to put back the bathroom light to see if it lights.
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    which nob do I turn it to? And which one do I plug the red and black cables into, example 10A, COM, VmA
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    thansk for your help. he said the first light that should come on thats closes to the fuse box is the hall light and it wont go on. So that would mean I didnt mess up the bathroom light, but then if the closest light doesnt go on what could be the problem then? He said theres a L/E problem...
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    The previous ceiling light had the grey to the earth. Is it possible to test each wire to check the fault?
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    Ive taken up floor boards in loft and separated all the wires and still fuse doesn't go in. There also no damagae the wire and its clipped in so i havent pulled all the wire only the bit i can see. Im really puzzled. I found some nuts so maybe a squirrel has cut the wire and when ive pulled it...
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    Yeah he had a Insulation Resistance meter and said its a live>earth fault.
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    TOday Ill go in the loft and try and swap the wires over. BEDROOM One he said I may have wired wrong but it worked for a month. In the pic you can see red, neutral, grey, I connected it live>live, neutral>neutral, grey>earth. But theres a hiden bare wire cable which must be earth and the...
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    When he looked at the bedroom light he said ive connected it wrong, thats why the bathroom light went. And yeah when I did the bathroom like I pulled on the wire to cut it so the wire was not damaged and that is when the big problem happened. So it must be there. Guess tomorrow ill cut up...
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    he said its on one big loop with no beakers and we get away with it because theres just two living there so we dont use up lots of elecritc.
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    thanks for your reply. im in a village in liverpool. what happened was when I changed my light in my bedroom the light in the bathroom went pop. Although after the bedroom worked fine. I changed the light in the bathroom incase it was the fitting. And all the lights in the house went...
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    HELP - live to earth fault - where to begin?

    I put new spotlights in my BEDroom and when i turned on the bathroom light the shaver and main bathroom light went, ive changed the bulb 4 times, changed the main bathroom light, changed the wall switch, changed my bedroom light and still my bathroom and shaver will not come on, whats happened...
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