Re: RCD keeps tripping
Worth paying attention to Judd, if you don't know what you are doing with electricity then leave well alone.
I learnt that as a young apprentice , another lad who joined the firm at the same time a me was electrocuted to death on a site we were on. Young Brian was working in a busbar riser chamber and had remove the fuse and left it on top of the switchgear. Some idiot from the firm we work working at decided he needed power on one of the floors So he put the fuse back in (not one of you domestic type but a big industrial one) ans threw the switch. No health and safety back then and the qualified electricians failed to teach about what to do or not. Something I will never forget and that was nearly 60 years ago.
even a 240volt shock knocks you back a bit having had a couple in the past while learning the trade.
What i learnt back then has completely changed ,even the wiring. I learnt on wiring before it went metric such as 7.029 or 3.036 size to name but 2.
So now ,even today I have called in a qualified electrician to check out our cooker circuit before the new oven comes. he said it looks ok but will do a proper check and give us a pass certificate
Yes what went on back then would horrify people now, but it was more or less accepted. Some of the things I have seen like a man on one site we were on saw another electrician and picked up a bit of conduit( metal pipe) and hit him over the head with it knocking him out, some friction in the past i found out.
Another was a guy falling into a lift several stories up shaft before the lift was installed and landing on the shock absorbing springs tha carriage would sit on, died of course. no barriers around the lift shaft hole
Me I have been lifted in a tower crane bucket to get conduit up to the top floor of a building and the crane driver though it was fun to have the bucket swing while I was hanging onto a couple of bundles of conduit.
Yes learning a trade was tough back then but you had to accept it . Just a couple of examples I will never ever forget and i was only 16/17 years old at the time