Your posh oak floorboards- spiked on top of the original boards were they? Get your yellow pages out, get ringing round for a part p electrician to do you an EICR and price for sorting your meter cupboard out. And take it from there.....
AC series-wiring special dimmer switch/remote control, but lights no longer come on
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Nah this is in the spare room which still has the curtains and carpet that was left in when i bought the place 5 years ago
Just before I go to sleep.. would it not be far easier to replace that cable with bigger cable instead? It's only a short tail.. ?
Yep, that's what the Henley blocks, 25mm tails and DNO to isolate the power while electrician does the job would do. Up to you whether you replaced those 2 boxes at the same time but it would be an ideal opportunity, especially if they're doing all the power, to tidy the job up- an RCD in line wouldn't hurt either
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Yep, that's what the Henley blocks, 25mm tails and DNO to isolate the power while electrician does the job would do. Up to you whether you replaced those 2 boxes at the same time but it would be an ideal opportunity, especially if they're doing all the power, to tidy the job up- an RCD in line wouldn't hurt either
OK cool - thank you!
About that "tingle"... Well, I can give you something to compare it to now.
A neon screwdriver / voltage tester. When it's on a Live wire and glowing, move your finger around on the contact on the end.. that buzz/tingle, is exactly what I was feeling on the metal faceplate and backbox which had this unconnected earth wire loose in the ceiling. It can only be capacitive coupling can't it? It wasn't connected to anything, but had the live / switched running alongside it.
Please do yourself a favour and throw your neon screwdriver away, or stop using it as an indication of voltage. They are spectacularly unreliable and must never be trusted as proof that a circuit has been isolated. If you're going to do any more of this sort of thing, a cheap multimeter from anywhere will come in very handy (eg for working out which core in a cable is the one you want) as well as being a more reliable indicator of voltage
No qualified electrician would dare own one of those things...
Whilst I agree that they are of very limited usefulness (and potentially dangerous if used for the wrong purpose) I'm not sure that a survey of the toolboxes of 'qualified electricians' would necessarily confirm what you have suggested
Kind Regards, John
Dare to admit to owning one?! ( there are 3 or 4 here, but not in my van)
I do have one because they are supplied with other equipment but never use it.
I find the other type
useful for quick identification of, for example, a switched or permanent line and other things like that.
They are also very good for testing filament lamps and fuses and continuity.
I find the other type
useful for quick identification of, for example, a switched or permanent line and other things like that.
They are also very good for testing filament lamps and fuses and continuity.
I certainly have some - but I'm not a 'qualified electrician', so that doesn't really count!
However, to be serious, they do have their uses, in the hands of someone who knows and understands what they are doing, and I actually suspect that there are few electricians who, if they were honest, could say that they don't own one! The less one knows and understands, the more potentially dangerous they become - so I think it is, in general, very appropriate to strongly discourage most DIYers from using them
Kind Regards, John
Hi. I have 3 multimeters. an iso-tech, a uni-t, a lap clamp meter as of today, and I have a 4 channel DSO as well just in case
I found that the badly damaged round cable is feeding from the back of one of the kitchen double-outlets. It is live only *from* that socket, and whilst I can't follow it the other way as it heads under another room, it doesn't seem to go to anything that is present in the house any more. It's in the general direction of the fuse box, but isn't live from there. So I have cut and disconnected it both at the back of the socket, and where it is damaged by the CH pipes.
Other than what?
Indeed, as I've just written, they do have their uses, but only in the hands of people who know and understand what they are doing, and what are the limitations of the devices.
Kind Regards, John
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