Re: Re: Urgent electrical help - solved

["Frank Mc Alinden" <fmcalind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stop playing with the toys and get back to the serious stuff
;-))...........

Frank



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 4:51 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Urgent electrical help - solved


> Thanks Dean,
>
> Just been trying out my new thicknesser/planer - serious bits of kit.
>
> Power is working loverly in there now - thanks for your help in the
> planning :)
>
> Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Barrett [mailto:dean@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 June 2004 16:55
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Urgent electrical help - solved
>
> 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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