A whole lot of burning going on

Limassol Electrician 24/7 called to a beautiful house in Fasoula, Limassol, problems with a 3 pole (3 phase) circuit breaker that was tripping inside the property at the ground floor fuse board (main distribution consumers unit).

Upon testing we found this breaker was the main supply MCB supplying another consumer unit in the swimming pool pump room. This consumer unit was found to be in very poor and unsafe condition, the cover was missing and no where to be found, and clear signs of water staining on many of the MCB's (miniature circuit breakers).

• There was also a strong smell of electrical burning. Further inspection revealed burning and over heating of the neutral link from the main switch to the neutral bar, this is most likely caused by incorrect tightening of the cable retention screw and without the use of a professional electricians torque screwdriver (we see this on almost every fuse board that we come across in Cyprus), electricians in Cyprus seem not willing to invest the many hundreds of Euros in a set of professional electricians torque screwdrivers, our vehicles carry a full set of German made high precision insulated torque screwdrivers.
• Also we found the 3 phase busbar had been shorting between the phases due to the ingress of rain water coming onto the breakers, this could have led to a very dangerous situation for the occupants of the home, the missing consumer unit cover means a electrical fire could have spread. Luckily the main 3 pole MCB supplying this panel had tripped out.
• Also we made the user aware of the lack of additional protection (30ma RCBO's) from electric shock to all of the circuits supplying the swimming pool equipment.​

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Our final report will recommend a full rebuild of the roof for the pump room to ensure water never enters any of the electrical equipment for the swimming pool, plus a full rebuild of this 3 phase board to comply with the latest regulations of BS: 7671.

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