Hi All
This is more of curiosity for myself.
in our house, in the downstairs and upstairs hallway, we have/had these very old fluorescent tube lights, always hated them. Other than changing a simple light switch, I dont do any electrical work therefore I employed my trusted electrician who has always carried out work for us.
the job was to remove both lights and replace with bog standard ceiling rose pendant lights, which will have some rather nice lightweight shades on.
The work was carried out and all is well, here is the strange issue and the electrician struggled to explain this to me.
on the upstairs light, someone (prior to us living in the house, pre 1995) had put a link wire in from the earth to the neutral of the light fitting (the neutral was also connected here) Initially the electrician thought it was a fault that someone previously was too lazy to find, however he removed the link and wired up the new ceiling rose as per how its meant to be done and all worked as intended with no faults.
The downstairs light was wired correctly in the first instance, as per his comment.
my question is, why would, or in what circumstances would someone connect a bridging wire from the earth terminal on the ceiling rose to the neutral connection to the light fitting. so in essence, both neutral and earth were connected together.
the next job is to upgrade the CU with all RCBO board following testing, he did comment that if the circuit was RCD protected that it would have tripped long ago.
This is more of curiosity for myself.
in our house, in the downstairs and upstairs hallway, we have/had these very old fluorescent tube lights, always hated them. Other than changing a simple light switch, I dont do any electrical work therefore I employed my trusted electrician who has always carried out work for us.
the job was to remove both lights and replace with bog standard ceiling rose pendant lights, which will have some rather nice lightweight shades on.
The work was carried out and all is well, here is the strange issue and the electrician struggled to explain this to me.
on the upstairs light, someone (prior to us living in the house, pre 1995) had put a link wire in from the earth to the neutral of the light fitting (the neutral was also connected here) Initially the electrician thought it was a fault that someone previously was too lazy to find, however he removed the link and wired up the new ceiling rose as per how its meant to be done and all worked as intended with no faults.
The downstairs light was wired correctly in the first instance, as per his comment.
my question is, why would, or in what circumstances would someone connect a bridging wire from the earth terminal on the ceiling rose to the neutral connection to the light fitting. so in essence, both neutral and earth were connected together.
the next job is to upgrade the CU with all RCBO board following testing, he did comment that if the circuit was RCD protected that it would have tripped long ago.
