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I love this bit: Of course it has nothing to do with shops/stores not selling fake goods.

Exactly that. But with or without a load connected I certainly didn't expect to be explaining how a RCD works but I'll start here. Let's put some figures in place and assume our L&N are 1Ω from the sub and somewhere along the line we have a solid 1V betwix N&E, something resembling this:How...

Of course it does.

Oh I can imagine exactly how this can happen: No power in properties, all the dead testing is done (if any). DNO/supplier arrive and apply power, all the live testing is done in the houses - then in the garages en-mass then the house CU's reset en-mass. A little while back I did something...

The situation in my case has been RCD tripping, it's a fairly standard 5+5 2 RCD board and each time it tripped it reset okay, until the other day when it was raining, snowing etc. Near me so I was called to see If I could localise and isolate the circuit. N-E has over 1V so some potential for...

Sadly it's not quite that easy in the situation I've just been in. The title deeds clearly show which garage is part of which property, roughly: There are maybe a coupleof dozen garages in a row with houses backing onto the garage area both sides plus a few footpaths forming a back ally behind...

The thing is many accesses to a system are by a system admin who will input your name and a notional 'password' with the instruction to change it immediately on first use. The same thing it true for some software as I mentioned above. Many people didn't bother. When working for BT it was like...

Has there been any progress on this?, I have encountered exactly the same situation today.

Don't bank on it. On those ocassions I find myself trying to gain access to something - usually a lighting control desk, radio programming software etc - password is more common than 1234 or 0000.

Unless the new lights wires reach the connectors

No, just a PC

as I have no imagination, I'm stuck with reality, it takes me directly to a a 4 bulb gold fitting.

I think you will have some slack in the wires in the new fitting, can you post a pic of that too. Did you get any replies on Redit?

Such as a block of garages behind a previous house I lived. Late at night the fire crew drank plenty of our tea while the chief decided it 'must have been children smoking' as it was known the garage where it started was not locked and furniture was stored in there. They even said 'no electric...

At least the price had dropped since the unobtainium price hike, I see to remember paying more like £30 for the last one.

What he shows is correct, unless the original switch failed at the same time as rewiring it it'll be wired incorrectly. the switches are generally laid out in a triangle with the common on it's ownand the matching physical locations should be 'matched' Earthwires not shown for clarity The...

It probably has 2 AA or a PP3. I'd get that rectangular big out of the way to see the situation before binning. I have replaced 'non replacable battery' before now - in 2020 when replacement detectors were not available and they are required in my rental properties with gas.

Well I'd like a fiver for everytime any one of the above trades were happy to cadge a loan of my Homebase, 7.2V Bosch, B&D when theirs went flat :) certainly be plenty to buy a number of the above more expensive products:ROFLMAO:

I believe so. Additionally I have never looked at why some RCDs and RCBOs have earth wires. But I feel a Mr Google coming on.

Yes correct and has historically been used to detect and shut down unbalanced phases. Yes but my comment was based on the days when the solenoid was a 240V coil and effectively connected between L1 & N to trip. Well yes the whole point about an RCD is to detect any imbalance across all of the...