RE: Re: Urgent electrical help - solved

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Glad you got it sorted Paul



Dean.


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 June 2004 16:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Urgent electrical help - solved

So 10 mins after posting, I sat down and had a think - turns out I'd wired
the workshop neutral feed to the house RCD neutral side causing these weird
problems.

All working well now :-)

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gale" <groups@s...> wrote:
> Dean / any other electricians?
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> 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.
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> Any ideas? Could it be an earthing problem? Or something else?
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> Help!
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> Paul
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