Recent content by dabaldie

Ok, new kitchen has arrived but in her infinite wisdom the other half wanted to get a sink from elsewhere as she didn’t like the ones they sold. She found one she liked which is a sink and drainer total 750 in width, sink is 550 including tap holes to side. The rest is draining board. Now I’ve...

I only used the pen to see if there was anything that was going live to give my wife the shocks such as the washing machine that I couldn’t get a good earth off without scratching paint. Useful to scan for voltages quickly I guess. The kettle didn’t actually go in the bin it went to work...

Thank you. Just isolated the cooker circuit and pulled the front off the socket/double pole switch and hey Presto… earth wire not connected properly in the switch! It just fell out if it was even in there properly. May have just been touching the common earth “bar” So that explains it all. Pan...

Yes. Zero voltage when isolator switched off. I’m sorry as she keeps telling me more things (the joy of forums)… she now tells me the trip went a couple of times, and then stopped failing. What you say makes perfect sense, something making the case live, but why isn’t this being discharged...

She just said it was both…. Like a pulsing then a crack. Do you think she was “live” and then when touching earth either through the earthed toaster or “ground” got the shock as it discharged? Ok. The plot thickens. She’s just told me that a pan boiled over a few weeks ago and tripped the...

Thanks. Laminate floor over concrete slab. Usually wearing slippers. Yep. Have a multimeter.

That’s what I thought too (static) , but generated by what? Washing machine adjacent? But back to my original question should the cooker light up the pen?

Ok. So a few weeks ago my wife got a shock off what she thought was the metal kettle we use plugged into the outlet which is also the cooker switch (a twin unit). She binned the kettle as thought it was faulty and plugged the new kettle into another outlet in the kitchen. This is now the same...

OK it happened again... after last time i spent 10 minutes trying to find a number to call... we are on EDF and the number just rang and rang (yes that was theer emergency number), so just turned off all high load kit and it was fine. Anyway last night it happened again so i rang western...

was just before christmas 2005, and yes the depot/shop is still there!..

ah that explains something. the pump would occasionally not cut out after 5 minutes of the heat going off ie overrun. as for parts. i should be able to get the part. i bought the pcb 2 years back for the servowarm depot in totnes for £20. they said then they had no plans to stop stocking the...

ok. i have an old servowarm elite 50 and the the pump seems to cut out occasionally causing the water to kettle and then this cuts off the gas through the high temp cut out.. (i'm guessing here from advice i have been given elsewhere). Anyway i called an engineer out who said the system is...

Is it normal for the cable that comes from the mains (SWEB) block to the meter to be hot. I've not touched anything in there in ages but i noticed this eve that theire was a "hot" smell. I touched all the cables from the dist board.. all ok. then worked my way back to the meter.. fine. but as i...

basically, only buy the premium console. the core is literally the unit and a single wire controller. the core has a hard drive, wireless controller and the high def lead. you need to buy all three anyway so save the money now and buy the premium. also the premium has a silver dvd tray.. so...

i know its old post (well a month) I have a 110 C5 HDi not a bad big car... just watch the following... (all failed within 18 months) but that was 75k miles.. car has now done 145,000 miles on an 02 plate! Gearbox refused to go into 1st and 4th... required rebuild.. (£2k) Replaced clutch...