Our caravan builder has found the problem. The old screw through the wiring trick.
Havent got it back yet but thankfully, right skills found the problem quickly. The RCD did its job.
thanks again for your interest.
Cheers Stuart and Dianne
KFT said
09:50 PM Oct 9, 2014
That'L do it every time
glad to know you have it sorted.
wasn_me said
07:59 AM Oct 10, 2014
Hi, was this from new or something that had been added?
Cheers Pete
gooba53 said
08:41 AM Oct 10, 2014
Added. But quite a while ago. The problem had been intermittent, but I guess the movement when travelling made it a constant?
Dianne
Phil C said
02:25 PM Oct 10, 2014
Great stuff...
oldbobsbus said
09:10 PM Oct 10, 2014
Just as an aside we put a new kitchen into the golf club a few years ago and put all the gas pipework in the walls, done a leak test and all was sealed..
Along came the sheetmetal workers and installed all the stainless required and then the friers and stoves went in...
come time to commission the installation and low and behold we had a leak...
You guessed it the sheetmetal workers had put a screw through the gas line and the whole lot had to come back out so we could weld up the gas pipe.
KFT said
09:19 PM Oct 10, 2014
Bob, at least with gas leaks they probably don't go intermittent like electrical "leaks" can and do
just a real pain having to undo all that work to fix it.
frank
gooba53 said
09:24 PM Oct 10, 2014
Our TV arm had come loose so Stuart put a longer screw in!! It was some 8 months ago. He must have just split the wire or something and the travelling did the rest. Just thankful they found it. We pick it up tomorrow.
Dianne
oldtrack123 said
12:21 AM Oct 11, 2014
gooba53 wrote:
Our TV arm had come loose so Stuart put a longer screw in!! It was some 8 months ago. He must have just split the wire or something and the travelling did the rest. Just thankful they found it. We pick it up tomorrow.
Dianne
HI Dianne
It is just as well you did have a RCD
That live screw could with someone having a serious accident.
It would not be the first time that a screw, staple, or nail has penetrated van wiring
PeterQ
PJK said
10:44 AM Oct 11, 2014
oldbobsbus wrote:
Just as an aside we put a new kitchen into the golf club a few years ago and put all the gas pipework in the walls, done a leak test and all was sealed..
Along came the sheetmetal workers and installed all the stainless required and then the friers and stoves went in...
come time to commission the installation and low and behold we had a leak...
You guessed it the sheetmetal workers had put a screw through the gas line and the whole lot had to come back out so we could weld up the gas pipe.
Reminds me of the time we installed a new hydraulic system in a ship being built. We had welded a piece of angle across the face of the tank for the sparkies to attach a cable tray for their wiring.
Came back to fill and commission the system, and the bl**dy sparkies had fitted their cable tray direct to the tank, and used hollow pop rivets to hold it on. Not a brain amongst them.
Peter
PJK
beiffe said
08:59 PM Oct 11, 2014
I had similar when the builders decided to cut a beam to make some alterations and cut through the coms cable to the production rooms further down the buildings.
L overly job splicing them all back together. Lost a days production as well, as we were not allowed to work without the computer system recording each event live.
Hi all
Our caravan builder has found the problem. The old screw through the wiring trick.
Havent got it back yet but thankfully, right skills found the problem quickly. The RCD did its job.
thanks again for your interest.
Cheers Stuart and Dianne
glad to know you have it sorted.
Hi, was this from new or something that had been added?
Cheers Pete
Added. But quite a while ago. The problem had been intermittent, but I guess the movement when travelling made it a constant?
Dianne
Just as an aside we put a new kitchen into the golf club a few years ago and put all the gas pipework in the walls, done a leak test and all was sealed..
Along came the sheetmetal workers and installed all the stainless required and then the friers and stoves went in...
come time to commission the installation and low and behold we had a leak...
You guessed it the sheetmetal workers had put a screw through the gas line and the whole lot had to come back out so we could weld up the gas pipe.
just a real pain having to undo all that work to fix it.
frank
Our TV arm had come loose so Stuart put a longer screw in!! It was some 8 months ago. He must have just split the wire or something and the travelling did the rest. Just thankful they found it. We pick it up tomorrow.
Dianne
HI Dianne
It is just as well you did have a RCD
That live screw could with someone having a serious accident.
It would not be the first time that a screw, staple, or nail has penetrated van wiring
PeterQ
Reminds me of the time we installed a new hydraulic system in a ship being built. We had welded a piece of angle across the face of the tank for the sparkies to attach a cable tray for their wiring.
Came back to fill and commission the system, and the bl**dy sparkies had fitted their cable tray direct to the tank, and used hollow pop rivets to hold it on. Not a brain amongst them.
Peter
PJK
L overly job splicing them all back together. Lost a days production as well, as we were not allowed to work without the computer system recording each event live.
Regards
Brian