Hi All,
A couple of days ago all the lights downstairs in my house stopped working. Upstairs are fine (separate circuits I know). I don't remember a bang, and I can't say exactly when it happened.
When it first happened I checked all the wylex fuses in the system, and all appeared intact to the eye and when I unscrewed one end of the fuse wire it was clearly still attached to the far screw. Although I haven't checked resistance in the fuses yet (that's next on my list, but I need power for my PC to write this message!).
I have checked for resistance between every switch and light rose, and between switch and neighbouring switch. What sort of resistance should I be expecting on a working system? Obviously a reading of "1" is no flow between the multitester probes, and "0" is no resistance, but where in between is still workable, as I get varying readings?
Another weird part is that the lights came back after I first checked, removed and returned all the fuses, now they are consistently dead! Dodgy wiring?
Help?
Thanks in advance!
Tom.
A couple of days ago all the lights downstairs in my house stopped working. Upstairs are fine (separate circuits I know). I don't remember a bang, and I can't say exactly when it happened.
When it first happened I checked all the wylex fuses in the system, and all appeared intact to the eye and when I unscrewed one end of the fuse wire it was clearly still attached to the far screw. Although I haven't checked resistance in the fuses yet (that's next on my list, but I need power for my PC to write this message!).
I have checked for resistance between every switch and light rose, and between switch and neighbouring switch. What sort of resistance should I be expecting on a working system? Obviously a reading of "1" is no flow between the multitester probes, and "0" is no resistance, but where in between is still workable, as I get varying readings?
Another weird part is that the lights came back after I first checked, removed and returned all the fuses, now they are consistently dead! Dodgy wiring?
Help?
Thanks in advance!
Tom.
