smoke alarms tripping rcbo

[davidgreene]

15 way wylex 3+6+6 rewire

 

[sparkwright]

So the 3 are unprotected.

And when the smokes are connected to the RCBO on the unprotected '3' it trips?

And you have the right neutral bar (there are three)?

Is the consumer unit itself assembled correctly?

Have you checked other circuits at the board have their neutrals in the correct neutral bar?

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Is this a problem that has just started from an existing installation or is it a new circuit and started tripping straight away?

 

[riveralt]

My concern is that you are purporting to be an electrician, who from previous posts is doing work on council property, apparatently under the supervision of a 'gaffa' and yet you are coming on this website and asking for help.

Surely you should be asking your 'gaffa'!

Furthermore, your description on the work you are doing suggests that you are conducting work that requires Local Authority Building Control notification - which competent persons scheme do you belong to?

You talk about IR tests and that they are okay - what does okay mean - what were the results for continuity - do you know how to wire more than one smoke alarm together - have you wired the circuit properly - if so how have you wired this one?

To be honest in your questions and answers so far you really don't have a grasp of what you are doing. If you are just starting off then someone should be supervising you and answering these questions for you.
If you are a 'qualified electrician' then I respectfully suggest that you are far from being a competent person.

Until you can answer some if not all of these questions I would be really be concerned that the answers we give you could make you more confused than you are now.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

My concern is that you are purporting to be an electrician

That's a wind up surely.
I would also be interested what the test results were and how the IR tests were performed?

 

[davidgreene]

forget it, thought i may have got some insight into the problem, of course they are wired correctly, we are with elecsa, ir test greater than 200 all around, 1.5 twin from 6a rcbo to a heat, from here to other smokes in 3 core grey sleeved black interconnect, cant believe i am answering these questions....you talk about being competent well i am competent to wire and test houses and my work is always neat and to a high standard which is why i always have continuing work and contracts cheers

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

But your stuff don't work!

 

[davidgreene]

it was the rcbo as put a replacement in and all working fine, my stuff does work

 

[EFLImpudence]

But your stuff don't work!

No, but otherwise it's very good.

 

[RF Lighting]

it was the rcbo as put a replacement in and all working fine, my stuff does work

So why are you wasting all our time if you knew it was a faulty RCBO?

Troll

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

But your stuff don't work!

No, but otherwise it's very good.

Fair enough then, I may have some work for him on a job that I don't want to work but look pretty!

 

[EFLImpudence]

it was the rcbo as put a replacement in and all working fine

See here

 

[davidgreene]

it wasn't faulty really, in the end i had to cut the earth inside the sleeving and put the end in the bar just so it looks the part,,,,thay are plastic after all and i didnt have all night, gets dark early now....

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Jestem quailified electricain i wiedzieć, jak badania, kontroli i jazdy ciągnika

 

[davidgreene]

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