Recent content by BottleShopMan

the ring main and lighting circuit in that room are seperate. the confusion was the ring main had been wired back into the return for the lighting - when i changed it back the probs started. i have removed the whole lighting circuit for that room as its not used and was confusing things...

OK so pig of a day. we physically traced the cables out which meant moving lots of built in shelving. this meant we could be 100% the right cables were running to the right MCB we even disconnected all pre run cables for MCBs not yet in use. so im confident that the given ring main was...

So ive traced out the neutrals on bar 6 (the socket Breaker) they led to the crap joint. i repaired that. still tripped the sockets did all work when it was wired as follows; CU out -(6 back sockets) --- Sockets ---- (4 back lights) - return to CU the return wire to the CU after the...

Thanks i took the board cover off the main board just to see if i could see anything loose. the neutral bar had 2 terminations, so i took the main conduit off above the board.... and found that the 2 wires feeding that breaker - 1 of which had a double choc box / tape joint!!! (see pic)...

Hi Thanks for the reply - the CU Board is split via 2 RCDs RH and LH LH has the majority of sockets etc on RH only has 2 breakers (water heater + Glasswash) both biggies for added load. the board trips on both RCDS when load is applied to the circuit im having trouble with if it...

HI - wondering if you guys can help / shed some light. i took over an old shop in a really old building - i doubt much had been done electrically since the 70's and the prev tennant was a very bad diy'er! now in a previous life i worked on various different sites, telecom exchanges and the...