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almac68

Decommissioned an old electric shower and bathroom heater circuit.

Get a call back this evening that the central heating hadn’t come on. Pop by to check and discover that the boiler man had spurred off the old circuit but made no note of it anywhere.

The circuit was left powering an old bathroom heater that I was there to remove, and the electric shower was long gone (and documented as such). So I disconnected the lot.

Fortunately it was easy enough to reinstate, and now there’s a 6mm cable supplying a boiler spur that probably needs about a watch battery’s worth of current. But hey ho.

Relieved that it was a quick fix, and ultimately my own fuck up. But for Christ sake, would it kill people to add “boiler” to the rest of the meticulously labelled fuse board.

this is shite @nefarious i've seen the state a qualified electrician was in after he got a full packet from an electric shock on site because some twat didn't disconnect and label the cables correctly at the fuse board. he was taken to A&E didn't return to site, not sure how bad his injuries were and i didn't look in the site accident book, nor any questions thereafter, but his boss was fuming for weeks...

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Nef in reply to @almac68

Fortunately I wasn’t at any risk during the whole thing, but it definitely wound me up how fucking lazy the bloke must have been. At minimum he would have needed to switch off the circuit at the board, so it’s not like he couldn’t see how thoroughly it was all documented and labelled.
Lesson learned anyway.

Today’s grief has been with combination PIR/daylight sensors. After adjusting for dusk, the motion sensor no longer works at all.

3 dials - time, sensitivity, lux.
From reading the instructions, the light should operate on the motion sensor until it gets to the light level selected for dusk, at which point it becomes a permanent floodlight, however, the client only wants it to be a motion activated. So I moved the lux dial to the lowest setting (ie flood light activating in pitch black/never), but now it’s not working on motion sensor at all.

I’ve left it until tomorrow (was still there at 9pm, bit of a disastrous day), as last time I had daylight sensor issues, it just needed a few hours being left alone to settle down.

Anyone got any experience with these things? Will ring the manufacturer/wholesaler tomorrow, but first hand experience is always more useful!

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TGR in reply to @Nef

My experience isn’t very helpful. We have had about 5 PIR lights - mine were very good. Opted for one which works off a switch - can’t be happier now and it’s LED so nice and bright. I realise that some people need PIR but I’ve only had bad experiences of them.

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