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Ahh, good old water powered lights. Always remember to drill a hole in the bottom of the box. If the water can’t flow the lights won’t work!Opening an external lighting joint box.
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Ahh, good old water powered lights. Always remember to drill a hole in the bottom of the box. If the water can’t flow the lights won’t work!Opening an external lighting joint box.
Looks like a bit of a water feature you’ve got thereOpening an external lighting joint box.
You must have been like Billy the kid getting the camera out to catch that. Impressive. Or did you fill it up again for the photo?Opening an external lighting joint box.
Good point. You’de think the water would be running brown with rust.You must have been like Billy the kid getting the camera out to catch that. Impressive. Or did you fill it up again for the photo?
Street light column in someone's garden.Opening an external lighting joint box.
In this case it's male adaptors with lock rings both sides and there's another 5 of these fittings 2m apart probably all connected the same way, with singles for another lighting circuit running uninterrupted through all of it....Could be worse, could be all metal conduit, threaded into the fittings, and needing half a mile* of other stuff removing before you get back to that one. Of course, I'm guessing they've used male adapters rather than female adapters with bushes.
* Exaggerated for effect.
In this case it's male adaptors with lock rings both sides and there's another 5 of these fittings 2m apart probably all connected the same way, with singles for another lighting circuit running uninterrupted through all of it....
But yes, at least it isn't galv....!
Male pvc adapters are terrible. Badly designed with terrible lock rings and, for the most part, much less practical than their female counterparts. I dislike them intensely.
I think you two better meet up......for a chat, of course...I have a similar pair of strippers.
Funny thing...last week fitting some security gear outside .The lady enquired why i was drilling 2 tin holes into each connection box etc. I know many guys that wont bother ...madness . few seconds can save a lot of issuesOpening an external lighting joint box.
Classic dead short between live-neutral or live-earth. The fault is nothing to do with the motor, so its spinning freely.May I add this one (I had the offending sink waste disposal replaced by a plumber but I kept the old one).
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There was a big bang and a breaker tripped. The tenant found this blackened socket. Where did all this black deposit come from? The molded plug looks undamaged - the 13A fuse was fine - can anyone explain what physically blew up here? I'm just interested.
I plugged the unit into an extension cable in the back garden and it blew the fuse in the extension cable (and left the same black deposit). The disposal was free to rotate so I don't know where the problem was.
Thanks for replying.Classic dead short between live-neutral or live-earth. The fault is nothing to do with the motor, so its spinning freely.
The black deposit is powdered charred metal. If you can visually inspect the plug pins with a good plug, youll see damage on the pins. The metal has laterally exploded into powder. If not the pins, then the socket youre plugging into.
Best place for that appliance now is the council dump.
Thanks.My guess would be that a build up of dirt and damp eventually created a track which allowed an arc to form. Normally the distance is such that even when there's lightning induces surges about, you won't get arcing between L & N. But add dirt and moisture, and perhaps something sub-standard in manufacture, and you can get arcing. Once an arc forms, then the ionised air is a good conductor and the arc won't go out until either the power is cut off (the upstream fuse/breaker goes) or the arc is manipulated in such a manner that it gets broken. The energy in the arc can be "a surprising amount", and in all that black there is likely to be as least some it conductive material - so I'd be replacing the socket as well because it definitely doesn't have the arc resistance that it once had.
They must have thought about it for along time, I wonder if they ever tried to power it up?Must have taken considerably more effort than configuring correctly.
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