Fault Finding

Fault finding.

Some electrician's hate it, me i like it (except when it's my fault)

This was a real challenge though. Could i sort out the communal lights in an old converted country house which got made into flats 40 years ago?

Hmmmmm, let's see. No circuit drawings, charts or cable markings and no previous experience of how these old contactor panels are even supposed to work and the whole thing looks like killer spaghetti.

This technology went out with the ark. Or at least moved to developing nations when the manufacturing industries did.

Burned a few brain cells (the smell of burning cabbage was overwhelming), counted on a few toes and did a few drawings in crayons working it out but work it out, i did.

I worked out how it was meant to work in the first place, worked out which bit of it was faulty (the timer relay), worked out that someone else had had a go at repairing it and had altered the wiring, worked out exactly how they'd altered the wiring, i put that right and finally i worked out how the fault had occurred in the first place (a faulty incoming cable to the building had caused a power surge weeks earlier).

Job done and between me, you and the internet, I spent the rest of the day looking very, very, very smug.