Strangest Of Basements | Some EICR Testing | Electrical Life 

Thanks mate, yea I’d just spend way too long trying to get a full EICR on video or I wouldn’t be fully concentrating on what I’m actually meant to be doing. Thanks for watching David 👏🏼 appreciate the comments and views

That’s true, if I’d have thought about that I’d stick something like that as a recommendation to the client. Live and learn

@@Cablesmith it’s never too late Sean.

Have a good weekend mate.

@@pwaelectricalltd29 your right, I do a bit of work for the same landlord I’ll defo mention it in conversation next time I speak 👌🏼

needs a power failure alarm.

Thanks Pete 👌🏼 glad your enjoying them.

😂😂 glad I did anyway coz did you see how wet the underside of the wood was without the plastic lid 😄

Thanks mate appreciate that, I like his channel, bit different than most 👌🏼

Thanks buddy 👌🏼

Nice one 👏🏼 pretty ashamed I didn’t know that

Now Recommended to the customer👌🏼 but yea, it would make a lot of sense

Thank you mate 👏🏼

Thanks matey 👌🏼 appreciate you watching

Thanks Chris 😊

i had my boots on this day so about 5ft2 😂 💪🏻 thanks mate, sounds strange people saying DOWN Manchester 😂 were normally UP must be cold up there at the min ? 🥶

@@Cablesmith haha I’ve got a cheek I’m actually a short arse so always wearing 2 pairs of socks for that extra inch..they all count 👀 Yeah it’s always freezing here. I was out on Friday in the snow doing emergency call outs for the street lighting stuff. RTC’s and snapped overhead cables galore. Got some decent scrap out of it so not all bad I suppose 👌🏻

Thanks mate 👏🏼

excellent point, and well spotted 👌🏼 will be doing both from now on. Thanks mate

Surley if it came into contact you would have a short or at least the rcd would trip Am I missing something here assuming it not a fuse and your continuity reading should be low as there a parallel path on the earth

@@robertwilliamson3934 a dead short yes it would trip the MCB/RCD, but if there were a high resistance connection (eg such that it might arc across but at a basic resistance reading it shows no connection), it may not - this is why IR testing is done at 500V because it's more likely to find such issues

@@alexacb63 yes I see your point and realise why we test at 500v it is good practice but a bit of a what if scenario

@@robertwilliamson3934 indeed, particularly in a domestic setting it's very unlikely you'll have an issue like that which wouldn't be picked up another way (though obviously for new circuits as opposed to an EICR it's nicer to find it from an IR test than it tripping the first time you energise!). It's probably more important in a commercial situation where the cables might eg run through some metal trunking or conduit at some point...

Cheers basil 👏🏼

Thanks mate, think I get them from a website called cableties online but I’ve not ordered them for so long I might be wrong 😄

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Thank you 😊

Cheers brother 🐉 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Haha some weird and wonderful layouts that’s for sure, never gets boring. Its still bugging me where the footage went because usually I’ll know when I delete something by accident!!

@@Cablesmith Ain't that the way... put it somewhere safe, so safe you instantly forget. Ha Ha... Welcome to getting older but not wiser 😅

Not a bad shout 👌🏼

I thought it was so if the sump pump stopped working then the socket would still be ok when the basement flooded😉

@@SME_Ste 😂😂😂 the other 3 lower down, Sod them 😂

Hi Ray, I do indeed know this, it’s 216v minimum and 253v maximum However I’ve rang the DNO before when I found a voltage of 257v and they done absolutely nothing about it 🤷🏻‍♂️ but yea, that’s the tolerances anyway

Oh and no I’ve no idea why, it’s usually higher than normal if anything, very rarely see it below 237v ish

Thanks mate, I use electraform online.

yep that’s right mate 👌🏼 Thanks for watching too

@@Cablesmith nice one cheers for the confirmation 👍, what causes a high zs reading , when I say hi it shows as a fail on tester if got a good ze 🤔

@@garylatto4191 a high Zs would usually be caused by a loose connection, or extremely long circuit, What tester are you using that says “fail” ?

@@Cablesmith well like I say I still learning, daughter bought a cottage and thought whilst not living in it and before the sparks upgrades everything id thought I'd take advantage and practice my testing, Every terminal tight in socket outlets and not a massive rfc due to only a cottage , I'm using a calibrated metrel mft , it was on a old rewire able fuse bs3036 30amp and most failed the max allowed on that type of fuse 🤔. Interesting that when I changed it to a 20amp mcb all were with in max allowed for that type 🤔. Sorry for the lost message mate 😕

@@garylatto4191 I was going to ask did you have it set to a different mcb type by accident next 😂 strange then, do you have to zero the leads on the metrel ?

Ashamed someone had to tell me tbh 😐😩

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Tis indeed the black one, interesting to know about the pumps mate, I’ve not worked with enough to know any of that. Thanks for watching home slice 👏🏼😂

@@Cablesmith Nice mate the black ones look ace! Very smart pal! Yeah I’ve done a few in big London townhouses where the basement had been dug out so they require sumps and had to wire it in that way. We had to bell out the alarm for the float switch on one that had been in use 🤣My old boss dropped his cutters down there and was loads of Richard the third’s floating about I was pissing myself! 😂😂😂 You’re welcome pal, always enjoy your content. You’re right it’s an odd shape for a house isn’t it

@@JayTheSparky I’d have left them snips 😂 Who am I kidding, I’m tight, snorkels on

@@Cablesmith Ha ha funniest bit was they were brand new form the wholesalers that day 😂

@@JayTheSparky 😂😂😂😂

Bonjour

Also makes sense 😄 thanks for watching mate

You need another circuit on that RCBO to act as a flag in case the pumps develop a fault.

@@westinthewest seen them before with a contactor installed wired to a siren/strobe unit.

Yea, sorry didn’t explain it very well in the video, and I probably won’t do much better typing it 😂 So when you’ve cross connected a ring you’ve created one big loop, and when you test between l-e at any point your basically testing 2 half’s in parallel, which effectively half’s the resistance of half of the ring. That was dreadful, but it makes sense in my head 😂 sorry

@@Cablesmith 👍👍spot on explanation, cheers, big up from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 northern bants is on point always makes me laugh. No1 sparky Channel

@@kieranthomas8558 thank you mate 👏🏼 appreciate you watching too, really helps us at the same time

half as long and twice as fat , from the end to end r1, rn and r2 measurements

@@adrianmawby9009 if I didn't know any better i could've sworn my missus said the same about me 🤣

I do now after the comments 😩😂

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@@CablesmithI thought it meant gay orgy though...?? 😂😂😂

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