voltage readings at light

[salmo]

could anyone tell me why i am getting readings on my multimeter of 230v between live and earth ok 230v between live and neutral ok but 230v between neutral and earth and mcb not tripped and lights not on. Cheers for any feedback.

 

[1john]

you cant be. get someone to take some pictures of you getting these readings, try and get the meter face and the probes and connections in the one photograph.

what reading are you getting on the switched live cable??

 

[jaysean1]

If you get 230v between n-e you have a loose connection or a neutral cable has come out somewhere

 

[salmo]

If you get 230v between n-e you have a loose connection or a neutral cable has come out somewhere

Thought there might be a loose connection as 230v between neutral and earth did get me wondering.Cheers jaysean1.

 

[333rocky333]

If you get 230v between n-e you have a loose connection or a neutral cable has come out somewhere

You would not get Voltage L to N in that case though.
Unless theres more than 1 neutral and your not probing the same one to test.

230v between live and neutral ok .

 

[ColJack]

you asked this same question the other day.. why repeat it? we still don't know..
it's just not possible at least ONE of your pairs will read 0v between them..
a broken neutral means you would get 230V N-E with the switch on as you're reading the L through the lamp, but then L-N would read 0V

a broken earth would show up as some weird voltages L-E and N-E, but would show 230 L-N

 

[Taylortwocities]

Salmo, you are a TW@T. I asked you questions on your previous post on the THE SAME SUBJECT
http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1558072#1558072
and you did not give me any answers.

Why ask the same thing again??

I don't get paid to help you. Its done in my spare time, if you can't help me, with an answer to a simple question then I'm not going to help you any more...

 

[ColJack]

we need answers and pictures..

what are you using to test with?
where are you putting the probes?
we want photo's of the readings with the probes in all 3 cases. ( L-N, N-E, L-E )