I wouldn't worry about that. As even EFLI himself more-or-less admitted, that is the word which virtually everyone other than electricians would use.
Kind Regards, John
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Kind Regards, John
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I'll stick with live, I always thought line was a bit silly!
Except he didn't do that. He said -
which is correct, if he meant only the lines.
However, that made me wonder how the N and E were being tested.
Well, if you are looking for 'silly' (in general public 'common sense' terms), the main reason the electricians use "line" is that they regard neutral, as well as "line", as being "live".
Kind Regards, John
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My apologies, I was simply referring to live as line. I wasn't aware of another meaning.
Yes they were also separated and tested, they do show a reading.
As I said, nor are 99%+ of the population (I presume that electricians make up less that 1% !).
Kind Regards, John
One solution I did read on here is the below, from ban-all-sheds (it was a while ago though!)
"FWIW, I'd probably start by connecting one leg, and finding which sockets still worked, then ditto with just the other leg.
And hope that I wasn't going to encounter a real-life example of why there is 526-04-01...
When all the pros get back from the pub you might get other ideas..."
I suppose the only issue is I don't know the run ring fully!
"FWIW, I'd probably start by connecting one leg, and finding which sockets still worked, then ditto with just the other leg.
And hope that I wasn't going to encounter a real-life example of why there is 526-04-01...
When all the pros get back from the pub you might get other ideas..."
I suppose the only issue is I don't know the run ring fully!
That would certainly be a very useful start, but you would have to disconnect one leg, then the other leg, of the circuit at the CU, and I don't know how comfortable and capable you would be to do that safely, and hence how advisable it would be for you to try it.
I guess there is a typo in their somewhere - could you clarify?
Kind Regards, John
Well, neutral is officially a live conductor, and has been defined as such for many years.
Sorry, I meant I don't know the run of the ring. Probably alot easier to trace on a newly installed circuit!
If you were able and confident to do as BAS suggested, you wouldn't really need to know about the arrangement ('run') of the ring in order to get some useful information- in fact the exercise might well actually reveal a certain amount of information about that.
Kind Regards, John
Maybe you are confusing me with someone else because someone else "assumed the worst about the situation or the person who wrote it (and sometimes subsequently be proved wrong in their assumptions)" and you will not rid yourself of the fiction that I'm someone who does that.
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No confusion - merely poor memory on your part, perhaps ...
FWIW, I'd probably start by connecting one leg, and finding which sockets still worked, then ditto with just the other leg.
And hope that I wasn't going to encounter a real-life example of why there is 526-04-01...
When all the pros get back from the pub you might get other ideas...
Or not spotting the post with the copy&paste in it...
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