Din rail breakers fake or not

[ians]

Why go to all the trouble, just bypass the breaker, or replace the 20 amp with a 30 amp, like some of the aircon guys do to stop the breaker tripping, it works long enough to get paid, after that who cares, it will become the next persons problem.

What works even better is if you put a jumper from the top to the bottom of the breaker, take it behind the plate so you cant see it, then it doesn't matter if the breaker trips, I saw this in an old age home a while back.

[Justloadit]

And these people live among us......
I am now getting more worried!
Do they understand the implications of their actions, or do they just live in bliss due to ignorance?

[AndyD]

What works even better is if you put a jumper from the top to the bottom of the breaker, take it behind the plate so you cant see it, then it doesn't matter if the breaker trips, I saw this in an old age home a while back.

If I came across a job where somebody had done that I'd make it my personal mission to find out who they were and meet them face to face to read them their fortune. I also wouldn't hesitate in reporting someone for this kind of stunt.

[tec0]

It is scary... But not as scary as this... And yes it really happened.

One morning I phoned an electrician because the wall socket “plug” was tripping the power all the time. He came in charged me R600 and “fixed” the problem.

Then one of the family members phoned me and when I came home sure enough the plug was on fire... What our wonderful and fully qualified electrician did for R600 was to disconnect the earth wire. So now it wouldn’t trip the power BUT will burn down the house...

So I got someone else and he redid everything R1200 later it never tripped the power again nor did it catch fire.

[ians]

Andy I am past that stage, back in the day when I still gave a sh!t, I spent many hours writing report and taking pictures, got responses like the "what is all the fuss about" coming from the technical advisor at the ECA. I stopped wasting my time.

If I had to worry about every illegal electrical installation in Durban alone, I would have to close my business, do it as a full time job and still wouldn't finish reporting all of them in my lifetime.

The other thing that makes me smile and look the other way, this idea that you need to first have a COC for every installation before you fit a new plug or light, etc, just imagine trying to pull that off in the real world.