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Main Distribution Board - Mysterious Wires

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Is there any logic to the white wires all coiled up and left blinded off?

 

5 seemingly identical white wires runs to the distribution board, but only one is connected to the neutral bar on the left, the other 4 are just left taped off. Why?

The blue wire is another mystery. 

 

 

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Seriously, lord only knows, it was wired by a Thai sparks :whistling:

 

They could be "spare" neutrals that he ran and then decided that the whole installation would be OK on one neutral wire. This would of course be worrying. 

 

"I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"

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5 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Seriously, lord only knows, it was wired by a Thai sparks :whistling:

 

They could be "spare" neutrals that he ran and then decided that the whole installation would be OK on one neutral wire. This would of course be worrying. 

 

I am afraid it is even worse, it was most likely a Burmese sparky who did the installation. 

I also think they have bundle all the neutrals together, probably somewhere hidden behind the ceiling and then just left the 4 redundant wires taped off.

There are 3 other black wires going to the neutral bar, which could be from the 2 ACs and the pool pump.

All lights are LED and apart from a power hungry old fridge (2.5 kwh/day) power consumption is low so a single neutral is not as alarming as it sound.

The blue wire? Same thing?

6 minutes ago, ExpatOilWorker said:

The blue wire? Same thing?

 

Probably, unless you actually find the other end of it/them it's going to remain a mystery.

"I don't want to know why you can't. I want to know how you can!"

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1 hour ago, Crossy said:

 

Probably, unless you actually find the other end of it/them it's going to remain a mystery.

I will cut a hole in the living room ceiling at a later stage, so the mystery might be solved.

4 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

Probably, unless you actually find the other end of it/them it's going to remain a mystery.

I mean, even you stand baffled. Then it must be horrible. ????

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I found you!!!

 

All of the 4 white wires just ends in a junction box under the house. 2 of them actually double back and is 2 ends of the same wire in the main distribution board.

I could relatively easy pull them all out, but for now they stay as they are.

The blue wire continues up into the wall of the house, so that remain a mystery. 

 

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34 minutes ago, Crossy said:

I hope all that black is tape and not fried wiring!

 

Mainly black cables with black tape. All to Burmese spec.

 

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