On Monday, 2 April 2018 23:19:57 UTC+1, Steve wrote:
On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 12:21:20 -0700 (PDT)
tabbypurr wrote:
On Sunday, 1 April 2018 19:55:24 UTC+1, ARW wrote:
On 01/04/2018 19:36, tabbypurr wrote:
On Sunday, 1 April 2018 19:31:15 UTC+1, ARW wrote:
On 01/04/2018 19:23, tabbypurr wrote:
On Sunday, 1 April 2018 18:15:29 UTC+1, Steve wrote:

I had a call a few weeks ago where the customer said he'd been
taking meter readings and he was losing about £10 of
electricity a day. He thought it was something to do with his
boiler as sometimes he had some warm water coming out of the
cold tap. Sounded like a sensible bloke, even though what he
was saying was a bit odd, so I went for a look.

Supply was nominally a TT (no sign of a rod) with an old Wylex
rewireable box. Clamp meter on + tail 10.5A, clamp meter on -
tail 0.5A. Pulled the fuses an found the current was flowing
in the ring. A quick look around found a socket with a very
hot screw - the live had been nicked by the screw and was
providing a nice 24 ohm earth path to the incoming lead water
main. An expensive way to heat the water in the first few feet
of lead pipe and lucky not to have had a fire.

can we put that on the diy wiki?

Before or after homeownershub post it with replies in 2020, 2023
and 2525?

Only 7 years? They've done better than that many a time.

New blood here is no bad thing, but for some reason the hohers
are seldom capable of anything.


:-)

Yes it ought to go into the wiki.

Yup, but so far we've not heard back from Steve.

Hi, sorry - didn't understand that you needed my permission. I assumed
that you could do as you liked with a public post, my fault.

I'm fine with it being put in the wiki.

nice one, ta. Just need permission due to copyright.
http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/TT_water_heating


NT