Thread: Got a shock today! cowboy electricians fault

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Well, you are very lucky. My second thought is: why didn't the RCD trip? Did you test its up to spec? __________________ TTC When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - F.D.R.

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the RCD is fitted after the breaker in the panel, the extra wire was connected on the permanent live side of the breaker so the leakage would not have been detected by the RCD! the panel is poor, the circuit is over complicated and wrong. i will completely rewire the panel this week to simplify everything as a lot of the wiring is not necessary.....and dangerous. i just cant ...

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I don't mean to sound harsh, but it is not the cowboys fault. It is your fault for not properly testing for dead. I expect you have probably learnt this the hard way now, but you must never ever trust anything, including switches, drawings etc, and you must test every single wire or connection before working on it, including retesting both wires if you split a connection incase ...

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Quite often, parts that should not be live , become so in fault scenarios, As well as like you found, due to incompetent work previously done. Always test both inputs and outputs as standard practice. In the last 2 days I have seen 3 different companies work in a 415 v and a 11 kv panel, without carrying out standard test procedures and I was quite shocked, as it's there ...

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yes i agree with you...it is my fault too. i assumed that because i isolated the supply that it was enough. as for the 415 volt shock it was whilst i was at work. i work in a pharmaceutical factory with alot of electrical process equipment. a forklift truck had reversed into a column on which a 3 phase cable was attached to. it had penetrated the cable and exposed 2 cores. i came ...