Great video. Nice to see something other than EV. Your a brilliant electrician and its nice to see you use your skills on these faulty finding jobs. I look forward to watching the remedial work.
Carried a little tub of Coffee Mate for years. Got sick of carrying milk that then got forgotten about and went sour. Also tea carried in a flask never tastes right either. So, small flask, tea bags, coffee mate, and another tub for my waste tea bags. And an enamel mug that looses heat, and makes it drinkable very soon after it’s made. That’s my system, and I’m sticking to it! Cheers for the video.
A few years went to a large estate to locate a fault in the buried power supply to a partially underground shooting gallery. The equipment suggested a fault about halfway along the run - which often means a location error. Looking at the armoured cable we could see that the cable embossing (marking) was a different style at each end, so there was obviously a joint in the run. A bit of tugging and fortuitously a joint popped out of the ground about 2m from the end. The joint was sealed around the sheath but the armour had been joined external to the joint - by removing a 50mm section of sheath a few cm away from both sides of the joint and connecting an external earth wire between the two sections of bared armour. Inevitably ground water had run along the armour wires into the centre of the joint. I was never an Electrician but used to run the Test Section for a cable manufacturer - so plenty of experience locating cable faults / manufacturing joints.
Soil migration up bollards is normally due to lower pressure in the post sun heats them and it creates a low pressure zone, and wildlife like ants. I try to silicone the ends of bollards to seal them off.
Braver man than me taking that on! You're right about finding out how stuff is wired though. Recently did a db change in a block of high rise flats, communal area. My company put me on it because I've worked in that building before and know how it's wired. For example all the lighting circuits are wired vertically, and there are three sockets in the lift motor room on two circuits fed from the ground floor 14 floors below, despite the lift room having it's own db! 😅
Great video, you mentioned dirt traveling up/down those lights: I've had it a few times and found it to actually be ants making a nest. Just a thought, not allot you can do about it.
I work on a few places like this.... pretty normal stuff every few years. We only do the work on an hourly rate plus materials.... youll probably be there 3/ 4 weeks just to get on top of it then youll prbably need to spend more time upgrading stuff. Great videos love the channel....
Great video as always, can I ask what made you choose that model of velocity bag. As a spark I was looking at the rogue 50. No stockists near me so I can’t compare any of them. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
Sorry I'm late in replying to your golf cart escapade Adam. Been a bit bizzee. Great video. The bollard light with dirt in it. Could that be an ants nest?
@sotaelectrical just a thought Adam. As always, the content is awesome. Bloody love the tea-boat area, (military slang). I wannabe be in your gang. Haha
Dirt inside the posts is often ants :) Nice big estate that!. Had some like that down priddy's hard in gosport, full of ants :\ Also, have had issues with foxes chewing cables, for some reason they seem to like the sheathing on HO7-RNF. Solved it by running it all in flexi steel galv conduit
Definitely ants in the fittings, have had big nests in car park bollards over the years and they seem to like single conductors possibly due to warmth and magnetism.
We have a customer like this every year issues surprisingly tho the only jbs we don't have issues with are the old conduit boxes with terminals wrapped in the green puty old school engineering
Great video. Nice to see something other than EV. Your a brilliant electrician and its nice to see you use your skills on these faulty finding jobs. I look forward to watching the remedial work.
Thank you sir 🙏
Not many jobbing electricians left here on TH-cam but you're holding the fort very well and always find your videos a good watch :)
Thank you 🙏 I appreciate you
Carried a little tub of Coffee Mate for years.
Got sick of carrying milk that then got forgotten about and went sour.
Also tea carried in a flask never tastes right either.
So, small flask, tea bags, coffee mate, and another tub for my waste tea bags.
And an enamel mug that looses heat, and makes it drinkable very soon after it’s made.
That’s my system, and I’m sticking to it!
Cheers for the video.
If the system works then it works!
fantastic video and great to see you out and about fault finding . . . driving a buggy !!
Thank you sir!!
As a ex mechanic and now beef farmer,,i liked this video. 🇬🇧👍💯🇬🇧👍💯
Thank you!! 👍👍
A few years went to a large estate to locate a fault in the buried power supply to a partially underground shooting gallery. The equipment suggested a fault about halfway along the run - which often means a location error. Looking at the armoured cable we could see that the cable embossing (marking) was a different style at each end, so there was obviously a joint in the run. A bit of tugging and fortuitously a joint popped out of the ground about 2m from the end. The joint was sealed around the sheath but the armour had been joined external to the joint - by removing a 50mm section of sheath a few cm away from both sides of the joint and connecting an external earth wire between the two sections of bared armour. Inevitably ground water had run along the armour wires into the centre of the joint. I was never an Electrician but used to run the Test Section for a cable manufacturer - so plenty of experience locating cable faults / manufacturing joints.
We always use a nice resin torpedo joint in situations like that, ain't never gonna come loose :)
Can’t beat a resin joint
Soil migration up bollards is normally due to lower pressure in the post sun heats them and it creates a low pressure zone, and wildlife like ants. I try to silicone the ends of bollards to seal them off.
Great info thank you for sharing!!
ants
Braver man than me taking that on! You're right about finding out how stuff is wired though. Recently did a db change in a block of high rise flats, communal area. My company put me on it because I've worked in that building before and know how it's wired. For example all the lighting circuits are wired vertically, and there are three sockets in the lift motor room on two circuits fed from the ground floor 14 floors below, despite the lift room having it's own db! 😅
Knowledge is everything!
To be fair I rate the BG Storm sockets... especially now they've changed the design so it's a 1/2 turn plastic screw to secure the faceplate.
That’s fair enough mate
Great video, you mentioned dirt traveling up/down those lights: I've had it a few times and found it to actually be ants making a nest. Just a thought, not allot you can do about it.
Thank you, yeah a few people are blaming the ants!
Another fantastic video !
Fantastic content and a great watch, well done 👊
Thank you sir 👊
Massive estate, wealthy client.....you did well to get in before Artisan with a £50k quote
Who’s Artisan??
Nice vid , thank you. Also be carefull with your customers sensitive data, like the car numbers... You should hide them when you editing
Hardly sensitive information? Cars drive on the public road
I work on a few places like this.... pretty normal stuff every few years. We only do the work on an hourly rate plus materials.... youll probably be there 3/ 4 weeks just to get on top of it then youll prbably need to spend more time upgrading stuff. Great videos love the channel....
It’s nice to hear from others with experience with this, thank you, I appreciate you
Love the channel mate but are u related to snooker player Joe Perry as u look like him 😂😂
Thank you mate, nope no idea who that is 🤣
Great video as always, can I ask what made you choose that model of velocity bag. As a spark I was looking at the rogue 50. No stockists near me so I can’t compare any of them.
Keep up the good work 👍🏻
I saw it at a trade show and it just looked right for me, good size, open and accessible for tools, it was a no brainer for me
Those gator buggys are great, got them at work.
I loved using this to get about
Sorry I'm late in replying to your golf cart escapade Adam. Been a bit bizzee.
Great video. The bollard light with dirt in it. Could that be an ants nest?
No problem!! Yea could well be!!
@sotaelectrical just a thought Adam. As always, the content is awesome. Bloody love the tea-boat area, (military slang). I wannabe be in your gang. Haha
Hey mate, just wanted to know how long have you been a sparky?
Enjoy watching your vids from time to time keep it up great to watch 👍
Hi mate thank you, been a sparks 20yrs
Dirt inside the posts is often ants :) Nice big estate that!. Had some like that down priddy's hard in gosport, full of ants :\ Also, have had issues with foxes chewing cables, for some reason they seem to like the sheathing on HO7-RNF. Solved it by running it all in flexi steel galv conduit
I think im going to have to do something similar
Definitely ants in the fittings, have had big nests in car park bollards over the years and they seem to like single conductors possibly due to warmth and magnetism.
Any ideas on how to prevent this in the future?
@@sotaelectrical Get a pet ant eater !
@@sotaelectrical Wiska gel in the bottom of the column maybe, or as someone else suggested, silicone?
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Great vid gonna look in the van to see if can create a coffee corner
Thank you sir, ahh you need a coffee corner!!
Nice job. ⚡👍
At this point i would just suggest new runs of cable, boxes and lights haha
It’s probably heading that way
We have a customer like this every year issues surprisingly tho the only jbs we don't have issues with are the old conduit boxes with terminals wrapped in the green puty old school engineering
Sometimes the old ways just work!!
you can still get that non setting putty. Far less messy than wiska gel!
@ il google it!
Great video
Thank you
How’s your tooth?
Temporarily fixed! Thank you for asking sir