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Thanks Adam I try the theme from Deliverance. That should scare it!

Many thanks chaps. I am qualified but only recently and painfully aware of what I don't know thanks for the help and I thin I'll go for driving in a new TT earth rod

I took a loop impedance reading before starting and it was very high which I took to be due to the TT earth at the time. Haven't done anyything except local R1+R2 and IR tests (which were fine) but I didn't want to connect it up until investigating further. I haven't done a lot of external work...

Nope No earth rod. I didn't realise at first as I just assumed (dummy!) that there was a mains earth connection in the CU but nothing! It's odd because the installation, although quite old, seems to have been done quite competently in every other way. That's what made me question whether thi...

Hi there I a question which is vexing me relating to an outbuilding and I can't suss it our from the regs (16th edition block!) When replacing a consumer unit and putting in a couple of radials in the outbuilding recently I found when I opened the existing CU that the armoured cable was...

Ah now I get it. Might have to wait until tomorrow as I don't have a web site to post it from as yet. Thanks for the advice chaps

That is exactly right and I will carry out that check. Thanks very much

I am struggling to get the diagram posted. Is there an easy way? really appreciate you all trying to help me out here. I haven't used the forum before so I am a bit slow[/img]

That's what I thought should happen but it isn't tripping. It looks for all the world as if all the lights have blown but i checked that one first. Will try and knock up a quick diagram

Sorry. It has been a long day! I meant to say that phase to neutral is showing as very low, a few volts

i did initialy but then got the megger out. I measured a steady 240v phase to earth as you would expet but got low readings of a few volts phase to earth. Hence my query about whether using the wrong neutral block mightg be the problem. I havenb'y wired to a split load before

Yes it does. The configuration is the cable is that the cable goes from the cu to a 3 way jb where the switch connects the power to another jb that has the six lights connected straight through

Hi there In need of help in a big way. I have put in a new lighting circuit. It's on a 6A mcb in a split load CU. It is currently feeding one block of 6 downlights via a pull switch over 1.5mm t/e. I have power on the phase entering the switch junction box and the switch seems to correctly...