telephone wire - lighting circuit

[canduit]

Went to look at an aquiantance's problem today because lighting circuit MCB keeps tripping. The MCB is f---ed, 2 lighting circuits line conductors have been taped together, connected with a blue piece of phone wire type cable, and shoved in the 32A MCB Is this something I expect to see as I proceed towards a career as a sparx?

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• canduit
• 24 Nov 2009
• 2

 

[martinxxxxxx]

I think it is quite special, you should track down the installer of the blue cable and ask him to log onto this forum and explain exactly WTF he thought he was doing when he put it in

Martin

 

[Adam_151]

... You see all sorts, and it stops supprising you after a while...

 

[barcelona]

Went to look at an aquiantance's problem today because lighting circuit MCB keeps tripping. The MCB is f---ed, 2 lighting circuits line conductors have been taped together, connected with a blue piece of phone wire type cable, and shoved in the 32A MCB Is this something I expect to see as I proceed towards a career as a sparx?

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• canduit
• 24 Nov 2009
• 2

Add things like.. Speaker wire supplying 240V wall lights either side of fireplace. Old cloth sheath wires, taped together with selotape, supplying sockets and storage heaters, on one radial circuit, partly fed by 2.5 t+e.
At least this is what I found under my floorboards when I moved in.

 

[slup]

That is one of the more impressively bizarre things I've seen posted on here!

 

[slup]

That is one of the more impressively bizarre things I've seen posted on here!

 

[londonboy]

 

[Johnmelad502]

Has that picture been doctored?

 

[Johnmelad502]

Has that picture been doctored?

 

[bongos]

Quality pic.

Incidentally, why would there be three line conductors in both the 32A MCBs?

 

[RF Lighting]

That's beautiful. So simple, yet effective.

Everyone knows that hager MCBs fit just right into those CUs

 

[mikhailfaradayski]

blue wire? isn't that 5A?

all looks good

 

[TicklyT]

This one came up again recently too:-

 

[AndyPRK]

I expect the blue wire is some sort of attempt at a fuse !

 

[sparkwright]

Quality pic.

Incidentally, why would there be three line conductors in both the 32A MCBs?

two ring circuit cables; one spur cable.

two ring circuit cables; one spur cable.