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Bear with me because this is long. So got an intermittent fault on the upstairs lights. Trips the mcb after a few hours, getting a reading of 0.01 mega ohms between live and earth at the board, tested cable going to db from first switch and it’s clear. Tested the cable going from first switch to rest of switches and getting a reading of 5.2 megaohms so can’t understand where the 0.01 is coming from as I wired it so know there isn’t any joins. Also the cable going from first switch to rest of switches loses its earth, so I think the cable is obviously damaged but can’t understand why this isn’t showing when I test and why it’s tripping intermittently. Maybe I’m missing something completely obvious

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