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I'd call a spark but the guys in my area consider the job too small to come out to. Unless its a job that will take a few days, they won't bother. Maybe in 6+ weeks time, somebody might call. The guy that does the big/out of my scope jobs for me is away for a while and I would be safer wait...

I knew the danger before starting but it answered a question for me. I used a mm and I had pondered its limitions in tests such as this with regards to the voltage sent down not being strong enough. I might be able to get hold of a proper insulation tester but if not I'll probably buy one...

This morning I checked the resistance of the cable and I didn't get any resistance. From the test, the cable seem fine. Leaving the end of the cable open with a plug+rcd adapter on the switch end, the rcd trips when power is turned on. Now as a test, I disconnected the earth at the plug...

The load on this cable is 600w. 1x500w floodlight and 1x100w wall mounted light. Cable size is 1.5m² and its mine.

Like I said previously, I had the lights disconnected leaving just the bare cores connected to nothing. Still trips. I'll do a resistance test tomorrow which should hopefully tell a better story.

Yes this is a large outbuilding and my thoughts were the rodents at fault but I checked the cable well for marks that could have been chewed but found nothing. Yes its t&e and its well tacked to the timber. If the cable is damaged from the outer shealth, its a pinhole. This is a real...

The lights have worked without fault for the past 6-7 years. From the switch is about two metres of conduit which takes the cable up a steel girder to the roof rafter. From there it goes along the timber for nearly 30m to the first outside floodlight. From switch to first light is a...

I have a light circuit which is about 30-40m long with two lights near the end of the run. As soon as I turn the light on via the Gewiss weatherproof switch, the RCD trips. I thought it was one of the outside lights at fault but it seems its not. I disconnected the circuit at the first...

When you guys are wiring extentions, do you use chocblock to split/create the extentions. Just tonight I was at a house were the owners are having problems with ADSL sync problems and after expecting the phone extention wiring, the sparky who wired the house used chocblock to create several...

Ah right. If running water from the path was getting into the box after a good down-pour, would this not cause problems or would it help in the earthing keeping the ground around the rod wet? I thought damp was better than wet wet.

Are sparks using earth pits these days cause the last few house I've seen built including the house next door to me which has just been built, the connection part of the rod is cover with a galvanised earth electrode Box which is cemented flush into the patio/path around the house. The 16mm2...

I've decide to change the master socket for an unfiltered one and then filter the socket at the computer and where ever there is a phone connected. He wants to use a phone there also, so its better to have the voice/adsl coming through the one socket than the hassle of running a new cable just...

Cheers for that. I'll have to check the cabling out tomorrow but my guess would be I'll end up having to send an unfiltered signal around the house.

That's one way of doing it but cat5 doesn't look too pretty along a hall wall.

My Uncle has the filtered version of the NTE5 Master socket. His computer is beside it hence he just runs the RJ11 cable from modem to the filtered side of the master socket. Since the computer is being moved to another room in the house, he would need to run a length of RJ11 cable from the...

I thought the thread title would have answered that and from previous posts in this thread. Anyhow, no I haven't got 3-phase.

It's a pole mounted transformer and for a milk tank. I'll do my best to get some pics when I steal my camera back tomorrow. I've noticed last night and tonight, the power drain isn't happening as often as it should. It seems like every half hour or more now. I wonder if the major drop...

I'd better clear a few things up. I have two seperate 100A service fuses with one for the house and the other to the outside electrics. The cooler units outside all run of its own 100A supply fuse. But from the transformer, I have the two overhead cables that run to the 2x100a supply...

Well it looks like 3-phase is out of the question if the CU has to be changed cause I only got the outside CU changed from an old type cartridge cu as alot of wiring was needed for the new system let alone the cooling system. The two individual coolers kickin together which causes the power...

These units are part of a cooling system which kickin to keep pressure built up. It was a guy up the road from me that mentioned 3-phase. No very little about it to question if he was talking bull or not.