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27th August 2023, 12:19 PM #1
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sign at front of complex tripping RCD
i have narrowed down to the sign at the front of the complex is tripping the break when ever i turn it on. there a switch in the office that turns the sign on and off, there is also a isolator switch on the sign itself.
whenever i turn the sign on it trips the breaker, even though the sign isolator switch is off.
i opened up the junction box under the decking at the base of the sign posts and found this.
i think i found the fault.
electrician coming monday.
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27th August 2023, 03:06 PM #2
Little bit f***ed.
Hugh
Enough is enough, more than enough is too much.
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27th August 2023, 04:26 PM #3
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27th August 2023, 07:44 PM #4
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27th August 2023, 08:19 PM #5
and also the holes in the base not sealed as well. Judging by the absolutely $hit workmanship of whoever did it originally they should find a new line of work
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
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Ray
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27th August 2023, 09:09 PM #6
It actually looks like condensation in there!
Cheers Matt.
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28th August 2023, 01:37 PM #7
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yeah it is a pretty job at the bottom and cracked, who know who did it, probably decades ago. hopefully getting fixed properly today.
was full of water from a burst pipe next to it but looking at it, been rusty for quite a while.
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28th August 2023, 05:37 PM #8
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29th August 2023, 06:17 PM #9
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this was a bit weird. the old rusty wiring in the fuked junction box pictured above on the sign post under the decking looked like the culprit but wasn't. it was another junction box 5 metres away at ground level, well slightly below, that fed this sign its power. this slight underground junction box had water in it as well, pulled the lid, lifted the wires out and dried it and turned power on, you could hear fizzing and a bang as the breaker blew from the conduit going to the sign.
so we worked out that a wire had a break in it down there or something similar and possibly the water was playing with it. because there were a few phases in this conduit the electrician took the power going to the broken wire and routed it to another one and it is now working ok.
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29th August 2023, 10:39 PM #10
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And what colour is earth, is it brown?
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30th August 2023, 11:10 AM #11
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30th August 2023, 05:03 PM #12
Is that a water line near the top of the box? How high are the tides around there?
- Andy Mc
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30th August 2023, 10:47 PM #13
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31st August 2023, 09:03 AM #14
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31st August 2023, 09:30 PM #15
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