Bathroom fan wiring mystery

[hvendlor]

yep will do, think I might have to get a bigger back box as well

 

[ban-all-sheds]

FFS, Is there an english version of this advice.

Yes.

Here it is.

hvendlor - please get an electrician, you don't understand what you are doing, therefore you are unsafe and what you are attempting to do is illegal.

 

[hvendlor]

Change the record.

Thanks to the *other* helpful people here it will be sorted tomorrow, asked question > got help > problem solved. Brilliant.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The mistake you made shows, quite clearly, that you do not know what you are doing, or how things work.

You removed the neutral from the fan, and couldn't work out why it stopped?

Derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

The law requires you to be competent, and you are not competent.

If you think that doing electrical work on the basis of following instructions from other people without a 100% sound, genuine UNDERSTANDING of it is brilliant then you're an even bigger fool than you at first appeared.

 

[hvendlor]

Why are you here, serious question?

Just seems like you repeat the same boring reply to every person who asks a question, and you could say everyone who asks a question isn't 100% sure in what they're doing or they wouldn't be here on a DIY electrics forum asking a question in the first place would they??. derrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[yorkspark]

Which bit don't you think is in english? or understandable?

The fcu is isolating the neutral when turned off. This install needs rejigging to work as required.
You need to take the 3core to a new switch/pull switch and from load side of fcu take a twin and earth to new switch and connect as follows :-
Brown from twin to common of switch
Neutral connect to grey of 3 core with connector
Brown of 3 core to common
Black of 3 core to L1
At fan put brown to p live, black to sl and grey to neutral

Also please don't just connect brown of 3 core to supply side of fcu as suggested above as this will be fused at 32amp which will offer no protection for the 3 core and could be dangerous

FFS, Is there an english version of this advice.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Why are you here, serious question?

Just seems like you repeat the same boring reply to every person who asks a question, and you could say everyone who asks a question isn't 100% sure in what they're doing or they wouldn't be here on a DIY electrics forum asking a question in the first place would they??. derrrrrrrrrrrr

There is a world of difference between asking about things you are unsure of, as part of learning process, which you undertake before you start any work, and which you do not stop until you genuinely know and understand everything that is involved, and just blundering ahead when you must realise you don't know what you're doing and coming here after you've screwed up and asking questions because you don't understand the most basic things about electrical circuits.

• //www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics
  
  
• //www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:books
  
  
• http://web.archive.org/web/20080213151445/http://www.kevinboone.com/electricity.html
  
  
• http://web.archive.org/web/20080213151445/http://www.kevinboone.com/domesticinstallations.html
  
  
• http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Book/1.1.htm[/list]I suggest you get stuck into the last link right away - it won't give you design ideas, and unfortunately it doesn't refer to the current edition of the Wiring Regulations, but it's free, and will still give you a good grounding which you can augment with more up to date publications.
  
  
  But until you know what you need, don't fiddle with things you don't understand.

 

[IJWS15]

The problem here is many people don't know that they don't know what they are doing.

Sometimes Darwin strikes.