"so, fingers crossed for Saturday... wished I had some wonga, I would backhand the lad some money if I had it in an attempt to boost his effort, as its likely to be pee'ing down I reckon he will just get sick and call it off (it is Saturday after all) ..............TEA & BISCUITS"
Try not to be too despondent Snadge. 'Tea & Biscuits' ? ........ Nah mate, bacon & egg butty is the deal-maker.
Ive just got some buns in too 8)
soon as he gets here I will invite him in with offer of cuppa while I tell him what happened and tell him about the AM Noise and grounding fault and show him asbokids graphs and about the masts etc... (thanks asbokid)
BS - i dunno if you will know (coolsnakeman will) - im unsure as to what tests he performs.. but if that fault (HIGH AM NOISE ON LINE, POSSIBLE GROUNDING FAULT) comes up wouldnt it warrant an engineer visit anyway? as today Chris @ tier 2 arranged for the LL14 engineer to come out , but said he could only do so if my line tests ok - so Im assuming he run those same tests, how come he didnt get that error/fault result? I asked why it had to come back clean and he said because if its a line fault it goes to a field engineer - it must have been a line test he done but what test did this other guy do at escalations? - Iam wondering if he was just saying "yes thats passed..all ok" so that it went down on recorded conversation as tested OK...but actually he did see that fault and perhaps thought the LL14 would be able to deal with it better? so just went against protocol? hmmm dunno...
Quick reply here ......
'Grounding' is what we always call 'Earthing' in the OR world. Now, depending on the severity on the 'Earth contact' depends on what the remote testers 'see'.
I know our CSS test system (RAT -- Remote Automed Test) only shows values of
Insulation Resistance up to a maximum of 1Meg Ohm, no matter how good the resistance is. Digital circuits should always be above 5Meg Ohm, but as I say. the system hasn't been upgraded to show that yet.
So, back to your problem, our RAT test will perceive anything below 500Kohm (1/2 Meg Ohm) between the live and neutral legs (A&B legs) to Earth, as a fault. My caveat on this is I've personally had tests as low as 200Kohm and still come back as a LTOK (Line Tests OK).
Sky will have to access TAMS to perform their own test on your circuit, so you could ask your advisor that you're dealing with, what the complete test results were, not just the summary. Adios for now. Work beckons.