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This appeared on our fault system today. And I couldn't go as I was on another job!!

This is one we should all know! We got a call about a customer that had been laying a new water pipe to his house, saw a pipe in the garden and thought it was the one he wanted So he cut it! And it went bang and he got an electric shock! It was phoned into us as it was thought to be the...

Some from today The barn that was reported to us by the police as a cannabis farm and wanted checked for safety. To get power someone had illegally installed a new un-metered service to the barn by live jointing onto a 3 phase 95mm2 main passing by!! The service alteration where a builder...

[/URL][/img] I mean it's fed from here [/URL][/img] and it's only used to grow & dry a few plants [/URL][/img] Found in a nice 6 bed house in a local town that had been rented out while the owner was working out of the country. A couple of hours in there got me feeling a bit...

If you've ever wondered on the sort of explosion you can get from the DNO system http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-33006500 That is an LV underground connecting box failing! And on the overhead system this still happens...

Whilst investigating a query from a house that has solar panels relating to the voltage I came across some interesting facts in an ENA document. The document is the Electricity Network Association recommendation (GS 83 Recommendations for the Connection of Type Tested Small Scale (Up to 16A...

http://www.kelvatek.com/summary_brochures/Restore.pdf It should get us out of a problem from time to time

Reports on our system on a death whilst trying to move a washing machine this morning. Further looking at it also reports a flood in the property as well. Looks like the machine flooded and the incident occured whilst trying to move it without switching power off first.

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But we found the cause (sort of) So on Friday we got a job appear where an electrician had been called to a group of three holiday lodges. Each of these lodges has a hot tub and voltages of about 66V were being measured between the water and the surrounding tiled floor, on each one. The...

So this appeared on our fault log yesterday. We had to put a complete new service into the property

A colleague was called to a loss of supply this morning, attended soon after our starting time and found a house with the 100A cut-out fuse blown, and no evidence why. Customer stated they had gone to bed last night with the supply OK and got up this morning to no supply. So being a careful...

With music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ePilqnsLs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_uCN1jn8bw

Now we can't figure this out, a few of us at work and those affected (an electrician & an electrical engineer). Late yesterday a colleague was called to a case of high volts with 800V AC being measured at a customer's premises (an ex-job centre now taken over by a safety advice firm that...

This is a single phase service probably with a 315A fuse at the substation which did not operate Rare but it does happen!!

This report is interesting and possibly something not really thought through. Even disconnected from the mains the output of any solar panel will always be live (except when it is dark) and needs consideration...

Two of our neighbours had conservatorys built last year, both with an electrical system. One Wiring was an extension of the existing downstairs RFC from a socket in the kitchen, 1980s wiring so no RCD, no work on CU to fit one Cable run in cavities that were filled with insulation Cable in...

Of all the forums I use this is the absolute worst for the time taken to load pages, the failure to fully load pages and reject photos because of file size. Come on Admins you should be able to do better given the size and popularity of the site

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I answered a question about Caravan site Electric Hook Ups (EHU) on another forum, which got me thinki8ng about the permissible voltdrop on a site Now BS7671 has two different permissible figures, 3% for lighting and 5% for power I think. Given that the designer of the site installation...