Recent content by JIMBO1

Many thanks felix ! I checked the consumer board and indeed found that the earth connection had broken off. I remade the connection and now no live fittings & no voltage earth-neutral. Everything safe again !

The neutral is definitely not live - i've tested with a neon screwdriver. Live & earth are both 'live'.

Thankyou - excuse my ignorance, but even if the earth cable is not a good earth, the light fitting should not still be live (unless the fitting is faulty). The 'live' earth runs through the switches as well. I will check the earth at the consumer board later.

I changed some wall lights at the weekend. After wiring in, realised that the light casing was live. On testing found live-neutral was 240v, but earth-neutral was also 120v. When testing connections above the ceiling found the same, even with the earth cable disconnected. I presume there is...