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Where is the fusebox ?
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<blockquote data-quote="SPECIAL LOCATION" data-source="post: 503319" data-attributes="member: 250"><p>Perfectly sensible if you have absolutely no idea where a cable is fed from,</p><p></p><p>and you have exhausted most other avenues of investigation. </p><p></p><p>Go back and read my point 2/ i.e prove the circuit is dead first...</p><p></p><p>Now if this unknown circuit happens to be off a board with a shared RCD supplying other circuits..</p><p></p><p>It is quite possible the RCD would trip if you were "Working Safely" cutting the dead cable and the N-E shorted during this normal Safe working...</p><p></p><p>So to simulate an already proven cable being cut by touching N&amp;E is hardly going to endanger anyone....</p><p></p><p>Any more than what happens quite frequently if you were say cutting into a ring cable fed from a split -load board to extend it...</p><p></p><p>But it may just give an indication of which board the cable connects to if it is RCD protected with other circuits.</p><p></p><p> Guinness</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPECIAL LOCATION, post: 503319, member: 250"] Perfectly sensible if you have absolutely no idea where a cable is fed from, and you have exhausted most other avenues of investigation. Go back and read my point 2/ i.e prove the circuit is dead first... Now if this unknown circuit happens to be off a board with a shared RCD supplying other circuits.. It is quite possible the RCD would trip if you were "Working Safely" cutting the dead cable and the N-E shorted during this normal Safe working... So to simulate an already proven cable being cut by touching N&E is hardly going to endanger anyone.... Any more than what happens quite frequently if you were say cutting into a ring cable fed from a split -load board to extend it... But it may just give an indication of which board the cable connects to if it is RCD protected with other circuits. Guinness [/QUOTE]
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