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Yesterday, one of the flip switches on our electricity tripped. It is one of the RCD trips and switching it back on it just tripped every time. So I flipped off every isolating trip and one by one I clicked the one. Yay, yay, yay, *BOOM*.
So the circuit is isolated and and everything else is back on. My basic lecy knowledge says switch off all the plugs, then try again. Fwoooop, no workee.
Now I'm waiting for Sparky to come round and find the frogging fault. My bestest guess is that there's a earthing f'up.
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With all the rain we had over the last 24, maybe dampness has soaked in somewhere.
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It is very probable. The outside power to the shed goes off that loop.
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You do have that on a separate fuse / rcb, I assume?
So pull the fuse... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What under the influence of Gin, are you sure that's a good idea? 
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Of course!
He won't feel the pain... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I had the main 63A breaker go off, again thought it was a circuit, turned out to have just been the breaker gave up. Went to B&Q bought a replacement, all good again.
It tripped again about 3 weeks later, thought no, surely not, I was offshore and the wife's dad couldn't get it to reset. They hadn't thought about turning things off etc. Evenetually after a lesson on conducting fault finding, they narrowed it down to the kettle being spaffed. New kettle. problem solved!
One of the breakers at the front kept going, but it would reset. but after a while tripped again. Turned out it was the PIR sensor on the front gate, when someone walked past and activated the sensor, the circuit tripped. The terminal box at the sensor was full of slugs and spiders, cleaned that out and all good again.
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I /could/ try and find the fault, but as the house is rented and the landlord has to pay for running repairs of this type...
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Ive seen nails used as fuses - really ! - wouldn't recommend it, could black out the whole district, as well as burn down the premises
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I saw what happened after one friend used solder to wrap round the fuse holder in his car and that wasn't pretty either!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: Ive seen nails used as fuses - really !
My Granddad did that, could work out why his flymo work for a minute and then smelled like burnt toffee! Amazed it didn't zap him or cause a fire!
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I found one in a UPS (when the engineer was overhauling it) - shoulda heard the muttering and cursing from him - and then mgmt., when we had to shut down the ups, diesel generators etc to pull it - then surprisingly, once it was replaced with the correct device, everything worked as it should (it was actually preventing a proper switch over)
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never used a nail (or in the house anything but the correct fuse wire - I am not that stupid)
However I have on the bike used the foil paper from a packet of fags a few times (wrapped round the old cylindrical fuse) - well it beats sat at the side of the road in the rain for a couple of hours waiting for the AA
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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better than walking/waiting for 'AA" or such - pity I don't smoke  (would have been handy when I had a bike that required that sorta therapy, at 12MD one morning many years ago)
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Sometimes the breaker/flip switch just goes bad, rare but it does happen.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Stay where you are then, and I'll give you an eye witness description of this, intergalactic wanker!
Which movie?
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Debbie Does E.T? 
No, sorry that was a really poor joke. One could say that it was in very...
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Me, all the time
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One night in Alien
Tentacle p**n 
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Star Wars XXXIV - The Farce Goes On
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Star Trek: The Final Generation
They boldly went where no man has gone before - so they got cancelled 
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Humans in space ?
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Intergalactic Wankers.
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Aliens Vs Humans Part 1
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I'm sure most of you have seen this[^] in the last few days; but it's just Leslie with a few details changed[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Just wait till the eggs hatch...
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