Wiring a loft light. Blows fuse

Goath

t3rm3y wrote: »

I can't see why it would be considered so dangerous?

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t3rm3y wrote: »

will check again when light. I do telephone wiring so am comfortable wiring and cabling but don't deal with electrics. But the principle should be simililar..yes I know the dangers are heightened but its a light bulb not a power socket.

This!
You clearly don't know what you are doing, and are oblivious to the dangers of electricity.


Call an electrician, if anything for the safety of others!

[Deleted User]

t3rm3y wrote: »

I assumed

There's your problem.

t3rm3y wrote: »

would that cause short

If you can't answer that question you aren't really competent to work on telephones either.

shaun_from_Africa

t3rm3y wrote: »

I can't see why it would be considered so dangerous?

I doubt if Callum Toman considered what he did to be dangerous:
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/court/weston-super-mare-man-killed-by-an-electric-shock-while-tending-to-cannabis-crop-1-4866254

Her conclusion said: “Callum Toman, who was growing cannabis in the loft of a property he was renovating, died at 11.45am on August 2.

“An illegal electric power connection had been made. He died due to electrocution.”

And ask the family of Emma Shaw what their opinion of bodged electrical installations is:
https://electrical-testing-safety.co.uk/why-we-test/unlawful-death

At an inquest into Miss Shaw's death, the jury heard how the tragedy resulted from a plasterboard fixing screw being driven into a concealed cable when the flat was being built the previous year, causing the metallic frame of the partition to become 'live' when the electrical installation was energised.

The damage to the cable had not been detected because insulation resistance tests had not been carried out properly on the wiring, the jury was told