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Urgent electrical help needed


  • Subject: Urgent electrical help needed
  • From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:10:47 +0100

Dean / any other electricians?



I've just finished wiring up power to my workshop but have some strange
problems. All the sockets test OK with a little 3 lamp tester (tests for
shorts, simple earthing problems etc) and using a multimeter shows 240V.
However, connecting any kind of load (light bulb, dremmel etc) causes
the house RCD to trip (on a separate circuit - the workshop has it's own
earthing rod and RCD) and the voltage drops right down to 150V or so.
The Dremmel barely pulses on/off and a light bulb doesn't light.



Any ideas? Could it be an earthing problem? Or something else?



Help!



Paul







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