Electrical problem with a lathe

[Machtool]

The sparky rocked up this morning and looked over everything. When he fitted the new 3 phase main switch, he placed 2 active wires for the shed main switch into the same active connector. Thus I only had 2 active phases in the shed.:

Are you happy about that? Seems to me, any sparky I've every known, would have had his gonads grow back in, if he didn't know where a phase was going too.

[glock40sw]

Yeah. It was no charge for yesterday fixing his error. And they are going to re-imburse me for the $92 it cost for the air con bloke to come out and "fix" the problem of the compressor running backwards too...

[eskimo]

Well. Mystery solved.
The sparky rocked up this morning and looked over everything. When he fitted the new 3 phase main switch, he placed 2 active wires for the shed main switch into the same active connector. Thus I only had 2 active phases in the shed. but when you placed a test light across the 3 actives in the shed it showed that they had power. but when the test light was put from active 1 to active 2 there was no light.
So now the lathe is operational again and turned up a few nylon spacers today.
Life is good with 3 phase.....

as I said above...if you had measured between phases and not to earth it would have been revealed that something was amiss
only 2 phases eg red to yellow and blue to red would have read 415V

blue to yellow would have been 0 V...but reading all phases to an earth contact would have shown 240V on the meter