No power to the wiring centre!

[Jay The Plumber]

have you found 230v in the wiring centre at all?
just put the black probe on a good earth and then probe the other connections for the live.. when the meter reads 230, the wire you have the red probe on is live..

usually the 10 way has the first 3 connections as L-N-PE

 

[Robert Tyrrell]

have you found 230v in the wiring centre at all?
just put the black probe on a good earth and then probe the other connections for the live.. when the meter reads 230, the wire you have the red probe on is live..

usually the 10 way has the first 3 connections as L-N-PE

Yep - thanks very much for that info, thats what I was doing. I just couldn't remember the results from yesterday, hence the question.
What I really wanted to know though, for future reference, is how to determine if the L&N are reversed?
I'm back there this afternoon and I'd like to get it sorted in time to get home for the rugby at 1:30 (Being of Irish roots and all that 🙂 )
I'd also like to know (or be reminded if it's what I'm doing already) of how to find the other end of the room stat or cylinder stat cable where it pokes out of the wall?
Cheers for the help 🙂

 

[Jay The Plumber]

do you mean to see if the power supply wires are reversed ?
on my meter, if you swap the probes around they will read -230v AC

I dont know what you mean by find the other end of the room/cyl stat cable.
when wiring has been messed with by owner/builder etc I usually just do a continuity test and turn the stats on and off.

 

[Robert Tyrrell]

Right, I might have found the problem but I'm not certain - yet.
When I put my fluke tester into the blue wires, either of them, coming from the sich motor on the move, and the PE on the 10 way, I have continuity so I'm thinking that the motor might have given up in the first place

 

[REDSAW]

could be the contact plates on the spur arched out?
change spur & cable and start there before you get in a carfuffle

 

[Robert Tyrrell]

could be the contact plates on the spur

I ain't no cowboy ya know
Lit wasn't the synch motor btw. I noticed a missing link, which is what I felt like until I realised that there was talk link before.