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Apart from the excessive number and tinned or possibly ally conductors, what's wrong with piccy #1?
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Sorry, eyesight's not 100% at the moment....
It'll turn out to be something blindingly obvious to everyone else, I'll bet!!
It'll turn out to be something blindingly obvious to everyone else, I'll bet!!
I'm not a spark, but I wouldn't sleeve a red conductor with green/yellow...
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What did I say?
Wouldn't expect you to spot that SS when you can't see the hole in a flex outlet plate for a bathroom fan!!!What did I say?
Best bit is in piccy #1 looks as though whoever did it went out their way to get a wee piece of larger sleeve as the other (normal) wouldn't fit. Like to know where/what it goes to!
I reckon they nicked the red and so sleeved it. I don't think it is being used as an earth.
The sleeved red conductor was the live and was not nicked, so I have no idea what the reason to sleeve was, and with G/Y
This cable is from the lighting circuit - 5a 3036
It did feed the sockets to 3 rooms!
This cable is from the lighting circuit - 5a 3036
It did feed the sockets to 3 rooms!
I found a great one, went to take a Zs on a socket, Megger said 'have fun with this one!', took the faceplate off, brown and blue cables were the correct way in Live and Neutral, tested them and found the polarity was swapped.
Took every other faceplate on the circuit off to find where this was fed from (all other sockets black & red)
After some headscratching realised there must be 2 incorrectly wired (inaccessible) JB's somewhere.
Very frustrating
Took every other faceplate on the circuit off to find where this was fed from (all other sockets black & red)
After some headscratching realised there must be 2 incorrectly wired (inaccessible) JB's somewhere.
Very frustrating
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Found that on a brand new rewire.
Everything in blue/brown. No JB's to be found. All browns in L terminals and all blues in N terminals.
DNO had fitted new cutout & swapped polarity by mistake.......... uh oh....
Everything in blue/brown. No JB's to be found. All browns in L terminals and all blues in N terminals.
DNO had fitted new cutout & swapped polarity by mistake.......... uh oh....
what was done first, the rewire or the cutout?
That is now classed as a severe disciplinary event in a lot of the DNOs and MOPs (where polarity is crossed at a meter)
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