Checking electrics of a FLOODED HOUSE ... | Thomas Nagy 

He's asserting his dominance in the market

I am just worried tom is gonna burn out by the time he's 40... it's easy to do :(

@D HJ fairly sure he’s 35

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Genius

That's neat with desk grommet 😀👍

I think it is a TN-C-S, with a bond to the extraneous earth of the original TN-S.

You would think with all the brains in these modern vehicles that the computer would throw a code for unmetered loads draining the battery.

@@jeffclark5206 How dare you sir! Stop using common sense at once, if not sooner! 😁

Im not sure about this as in the coachbuilders manual for this van is an unfused 30 amp plug direct from the battery under the drivers seat.

Not on the Renault's, it does rely on the main battery (cos it's cheap). Trust me I have a one year old Clio with the same problems!

Not sure about over there, but in America you can turn off the start stop manually each time you start the vehicle, or buy a module that does it automatically for you.

Cheers, appreciate it pal!

good call on the old sheath being an extraneous conductive part now... very good way of explaining it

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Thank you, really appreciate it :)

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Knew as soon as I commented some one would've beaten me too it

@@nathansurrell9436 Haha! I’m sure someone had already beaten me to it but I find it’s a food way to neaten it all up.

That's a really good idea, thanks.

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In this instance its making the body of the metal trunking the neutral and earth path?

Does make you ponder on why tails have to be 25mm coming off 6-10mm incomers. Love to know what regs DNO get to use and get away with.

Saything that then why can't the tails be the same at ether 25 or 6mm but I'm not 100 percent sure on the regs but yeah.

@@UberAlphaSirus that is a question I have asked on a couple of video’s. I am just a DIY’er and would never touch fuse box wiring but I have often thought 6 to 25mm is the wrong way around. We have 6mm coming into the house and asked the sparks why the tails were so big? ‘Regs’ I was told

@@dougsaunders8109 My guess is, that is for the day they'll update their lines, and the customers installation is already prepared for that...

@PETER WILSON 😅 😅

+1 for CTEK chargers. You can get 12V cigarette lighter adapters for them so you can plug into the 12V socket instead of having to pop the bonnet. Convenient for trickle charging especially if all your vans are going to be in the unit overnight.

Still not ideal if the plug top fuse goes.

Also too many fcu above the worktop looks horrendous

I’m glad to hear it pal !

Interesting, do you find things are better when things like that are owned by the council or privately?

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So the earth at the cu would have originally been fed by a water pipe? Making the whole system tns, but at some point the earth at the cu was swapped over the the micc neutral. It really confused me when he started saying it was tt as the earth was clearly coming from the neutral. Then at the main intake the earth cable coming from the armour of the supply cable is essentially earthing the cable from the installation tncs earth taken from the supply neutral. Would there have been a separate neutral conductor in the trunking feeding the micc cladding? Otherwise the trunking becomes a live conducter.

@@felixmoran1 Yes I don't know why he said TT or why they didn't correct themselves on the edit but it's TNC-S conversion not TT. You're correct on the main intake, the armour ring at some point back to the local transformer has been damaged and rather than dig up the road it has been converted to TNC-S. It was probably damaged long ago but no one would have noticed as the main water incomer at the main intake is bonded to it, but as is the water boards remit all old metallic pipework changes to plastic and then you lose your earthing conductor completely. Yes from when we have worked on them the MICC has been glanded at both ends and kept separate from things like metal trunking and wrapped in something a kin to denzo tape. Having note seen inside that trunking though I couldn't say for sure, though the badly done connection in the flat gives me a horrid feeling that which ever engineer did the conversion was not informed how to go about doing it safely. Though if everything in the building is connected to that trunking be it CPC or neutral the theory states the potential voltage difference is 0 volts and no shock risk. Not being there to test it I wouldn't like to say it's 100% safe in the current format though.

@@effervescence5664 thanks for the reply, why would the earth at the cu need to be swapped over for the conversion though? If it was a water pipe or conduit taking the earth to the flat originally, it wouldn't matter that the intake supply changed surely?

@@felixmoran1 I see some unused conduit below the CU in the flat, but normally the earthing arrangement up to the CU wouldn't have changed unless it had to. So you're right in that regard, supply characteristics changing at the intake shouldn't have effected the earthing arrangement to the flat. So possibly the earthing arrangement was an issue (missing after conduit disconnected or water pipe removal) hence they changed it to TNCS at the CU, or I am starting to think more is more likely they realised they had made the trunking live and have converted it all to reduce the potential to 0 volts.

Kudos for a youtube reply comment that is extremely long, and has not ONE point i can disagree with... have a beer!

or just turn it off...

Scorcho!

Yes baby ;)

Totally unnecessary "feature" to have to reset the ECU on a battery change. I wonder if you can fool it by connecting the two batteries in parallel while changing them over. Either way, the correct answer is to just not buy one. Support manufacturers that aren't there purely to force you to go to the dealership and harvest as much data about you as possible with their "connected cars".

Devices are available that are basically a timer - about a minute after switching the ignition on they will pulse a relay or optocoupler once - the "contact" of which is connected across the auto stop start button to simulate a press of the button so you don't have to do that every journey.

@@jimmyb1451 No, the charging voltage and current profile is changed over the life of the battery. Fitting a new one with or without disconnection will result in overcharging of a new battery and cause it to fail sooner than expected. Having a leisure/auxiliary battery connected with an old school big clunking relay/contactor split charge is a sure fire way to end up with both batteries failing sooner than expected. They need to be charged using a specific DC-DC converter, sometimes known as a battery-to-battery charger. Modern vehicles disable charging under hard acceleration to give you more hp at the wheels, and increase the charge rate during deceleration (sort of regenerative braking) but all that is very hard on the battery. I say modern, but some Ford vehicles have had smart charging for 20 years.

@@simonparkinson1053 Yeah, that's not how battery charging works at all. It's also not the reason the ECU needs to be reset. I haven't seen the systems, but I have heard of newer cars connecting through a shunt resistor to monitor current in and out of the batter (meaning a careless connection of a battery charger can put the vehicle into limp mode because the measured SOC doesn't match the computer's idea of where the battery should be in it's charge cycle, which is utterly ridiculous.) At any rate, if indeed a split battery system can in any way end in both batteries failing due to overcharge, that's far from what I would consider "smart charging". Either way, none of this is necessary, let alone required.

He could just not relearn the new battery to the ecu and start/stop would be disabled permanently

The same reason I left the industry as well, absolute w***ers as bosses. Work u to the bone, constantly on your back to bash out as many houses as possible, then adding insult to injury not paying u properly. I didn't think bosses like Nagy exsisted, if I lived in London I'd gladly apply to work in his company. Class boss 👌