Section E - Fault diagnosis and rectification - AM2 pre assessment manual 

If you don’t want to buy the XS training videos for the whole AM2 prep course then this guy is your best best bet

I don't ever comment on RU-vid videos but I had to send out a massive thank you to Adrian. I failed my fault finding the first time. I found this channel and it has been so helpful. I passed it on second attempt. No nerves at all going it as your explanation of how to fault find was on point. Thanks again

love the whole series of AM2 videos your doing massive help :)

Brilliant video, very helpful! Thank you Adrian!

Great informative video Adrian. You explain things very well! Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. Keep up the good work mate 👍🏻

Sitting my Am2 in afew weeks, Great video! 👍

Awesome content! AM2S next week, glad I found these videos. Thank you!

Thankyou for this video Adrian it was an awesome video and helped massively with me passing my AM2.

Very good video. Thank you very much for taking the time to run through those important points!

This is the most informative video I've seen on electrics, its the night before my inspection and testing/fault finding am2s day, so thanks mate

Thanks for your video found it so helpful I failed twice watched your video put me at ease helped me stop getting confused under pressure thanks again Easy to remember on the day under pressure many thanks

Passed the Am2s, had to resit fault finding - your videos helped a ton, thanks!

Very good roundup. Thank you mate, top job

Smashed my fault finding re-sit, your video was a lot of help thanks mate, keep up the good work.

Another fantastic video, this will help with setting yourself up for the AM2 exam and applying the knowledge you should already have. I am currently watching this video series through first, and will then watch the series again from the begininning with paperwork and reference textbooks as advised. My only other comment is the books have now changed since these videos were recorded to the BS7671 2018:2, (brown book/brown flash), so the page numbers are different to what is said in the video. Top job Adrian! Thank you. (Brent).

Great video nice one, passed all AM2 apart from fault finding, just re sitting in a couple week and found this has eased some pressure🤝

Super informative and helpful videos, as my am2 exam is coming very soon. Probably best preparation you can find on youtube! Highly recommended to all learners and for people who are working already, to be sure they doing it in right way. All the best of luck Adrian!

Never comment on videos but this is top tier 👍🏻 cheers

Great vid mate... very hard subject.. very very hard subject.. got my fault finding tomorrow and will almost certainly fail. Difficult subject well explained... but it doesn't change the difficulties!!! Damn it ! 😪

Passed everything on my AM2S first time and only failed just my fault finding section by 2 bloody marks, right now is sunday late evening, got my resit tomorrow (monday), just watching your video to recap has helped me alot. Everyone wish me luck! Thanks Adrian!

Excellent presentation so much to take in.

Thank you for your videos, help me a lot !!!

Great video! Thank you for sharing 👍🏻

This video helped me so much in my AM2E 🙏🏼 and I have Smashed it 😍.

I’m actually in the middle of my am2s now. Practical was yesterday. Fault find today and inspection, testing an online exam tomorrow. Thanks for the videos! Great help!

Cheers Adrian, very helpful video.

This is a great video, Thanks

I was told simple things like using the wrong words in some test centres can fail you so, instead of cross connection it has to be cross polarity and things like that. Good video though really helpful got my am2 coming up 👌

Brilliant.....

This is hands down the best video ive seen for the AM2. I have mine next week. I have two questions dude. 1, can you open the accessories on the am2 fault finding section? 2, can you use the long lead test for polarity on ring final? Cheers.

Very helpful

Nice chap

Thank you 😊

Your video is so good and im currently revising for my AM2 fault finding that i need to resit at the end of the month. Personally this has been very good for my learning of fault finding especially with the boiler breakdown and also intermediate switching and ring finals, my only thing that i tend to struggle with at the moment is going with what test to start with ( IR or Continuity) would you tend to go straight for the IR test if you was for example getting an MCB tripping? with an MCB tripping it could also be a misconnection as well as a short circuit, im interested to know what route you would take first in regards to what test you would do as i struggle with this if im honest and want to obviously find the fault in good time to enable me to have more time on those more difficult faults, thank you for your video very helpful. Jamie

Got my reset for section E, failed it by 2 marks, gonna smash it today, cheers.

Tanx for the upload i bet it's not that straightforward and easy in the real world,especially if your going into smelly and dirty customers house's.

one thing to consider is that the same board has been used for fault rectification several times by several people. If I find a fault that was left by a previous person but its not the fault they expected me to find in the exam, Do I get marked down or do I still get a mark? Because people are racing against the clock during the exam and they may leave some points loose or misconnected when they put staff back together and move onto the next fault. Some people have across this.

good vid 10/10

Wicked video👍🏻 not sure if you know but you get bonding faults and D.O.L motor faults too just wondering if you can cover these aswell. Cheers

Lovely

Got my AM2s coming up soon. Just a quick question….. I was told on the pre-assessment that we would have to fault find on a piece of CAT-5. No problems there, but….there was no mention of testing the continuity of the CAT-5 during inspection and testing. As we are testing our own installation, and CAT5 being part of that installation, would the CAT-5 circuit need to be tested during the continuity stage of inspection and testing?

Great video, Would an open circuit on earthing conductor be classed as earth fault or open circuit ?

Great video , I’ve failed my fault finding twice now, out on site I can do it no problem but not on am2 , I can’t get my head around the heating fault they do it says programmer calls for heat but doesn’t work I messed it up both times , how would I find it would I just start with basic testing

When you spoke about the mis conection with the continuity tester, would it pick up short between L-N too? Or does it just beep on continuity of conductos? Meaning if i had a fault and i thought it was a short, but i use the tester and it beeps on L/N then the short is now ruled out and now it is a mis connection? Hope this makes sense!

I sat my am2 quite some time ago!!! Has the wording been changed from reverse polarity to mis-connection? Great video btw👍

I had my am2 last Sunday and I have been out of the tools for a long time due to personal reasons . I have six month to complete the NVQ and the Am2 . I have not received my results yet but I really struggled and I didnt complete two sections of the installations due to some mistakes that I made. I didnt complete the fault finding because I got stuck on a fault and I took too long on it. I would like to ask you when your testing for a fault and you get a reading how do you know which fault it is ? Sorry it may sound like a stupid question. If you get no reading between a conductor than I take it s its an open circuit but what about the other faults ? is there anyway you can practice fault finding ?

Hey, would a cross connection give you the same reading on a IR test as a short circuit ? Eg cross polarity live and neutral ? Thank you.

When you say test the pump, how do you go about doing that would that not be classed as sensitive equipment?

Hi do you have or know of a video helping with the professional discussion, just after a bit of advice.

Hi Adrian, Sorry mate me again :) something has been bugging me ever since i've contacted you a day ago and i just wanted to see if you could clear it up for me as i know you'll have the simple answer. during the AM2 there was a number of fault finding situations where the circuit breaker had tripped, as we discussed in my previous post i would initially look at an Insulation Resistance test for a short circuit etc however IF the IR test was good and all cables were fine, would you then start to look at a potential misconnection/polarity fault? If were going by the 4 faults they have in the AM2 (Open Circuit, Short Circuit, High Resistance and Misconnection) am i right in saying the only other fault it could possibly be is a misconnection due to the MCB operating? Thank you Jamie

If a socket has wrong polarity L&N does it cause a problem if an appliance is plugged in ? Does anything trip etc . Would the customer have any issues ?

Will there be a fault that “light always on “in AM2?

Does anyone know if C&G 8202 is the first step to becoming an electrician? This is the only college course I can find that does part time.

I have to sit this in the next few weeks, fail last time on rectification

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