ulrichburke
DIY
Dear Electrical Experts.
Hokay, I know the question sounds stoopid - but here's the thing. I've not had an electric kettle for awhile because they kept blowing the mains circuits - the last 2 went rabid, if you turned them on the mains instantly turned off.
I live in a one-room flat, basically. The kitchen area's tiny, so I got a Baby Belling type stove - two hot rings - not the kind with gaps between the circles, sealed-in hot rings - and an oven. You can't use the oven as well as a top ring and it plugs into the mains, not wired in like a full-on cooker. All I've been using is the small ring to heat pans of water for tea - love tea - and the oven.
Awhile back, the larger of the two rings blew the mains. I'd been using it to boil water on. So I switched to just the small ring and the oven. Now this morning the small ring blew the mains - and the large ring seems to be working again. Thing they had in common? Both being used to boil water on, hence the question!
Dunno if this helps, and have no explanation for the phenomenon, but if a bit of water got on the small ring and you put the saucepan on top, it made a loud knocking sound. If you held the saucepan's handle while that was going on, you felt a clear vibration through the handle. Zero idea what caused that, don't know much about electrics, that's why I'm here. Basically - is it anything to do with me just boiling water on the rings, maybe occasional slight spillages - I MEAN slight, just a few drops, I'm disabled, it happens - getting into the wiring or something? I've no idea, hazarding a guess.
Big ring seems to be working OK at the moment, that's all I can say. Small ring, instant blowout. But it WAS the other way around!! And don't forget electric kettles - the last 2 - were causing blowouts too. Thing in common - all heating water. Is that a coincidence?
All advice will be followed.
Yours puzzledly
Chris.
Hokay, I know the question sounds stoopid - but here's the thing. I've not had an electric kettle for awhile because they kept blowing the mains circuits - the last 2 went rabid, if you turned them on the mains instantly turned off.
I live in a one-room flat, basically. The kitchen area's tiny, so I got a Baby Belling type stove - two hot rings - not the kind with gaps between the circles, sealed-in hot rings - and an oven. You can't use the oven as well as a top ring and it plugs into the mains, not wired in like a full-on cooker. All I've been using is the small ring to heat pans of water for tea - love tea - and the oven.
Awhile back, the larger of the two rings blew the mains. I'd been using it to boil water on. So I switched to just the small ring and the oven. Now this morning the small ring blew the mains - and the large ring seems to be working again. Thing they had in common? Both being used to boil water on, hence the question!
Dunno if this helps, and have no explanation for the phenomenon, but if a bit of water got on the small ring and you put the saucepan on top, it made a loud knocking sound. If you held the saucepan's handle while that was going on, you felt a clear vibration through the handle. Zero idea what caused that, don't know much about electrics, that's why I'm here. Basically - is it anything to do with me just boiling water on the rings, maybe occasional slight spillages - I MEAN slight, just a few drops, I'm disabled, it happens - getting into the wiring or something? I've no idea, hazarding a guess.
Big ring seems to be working OK at the moment, that's all I can say. Small ring, instant blowout. But it WAS the other way around!! And don't forget electric kettles - the last 2 - were causing blowouts too. Thing in common - all heating water. Is that a coincidence?
All advice will be followed.
Yours puzzledly
Chris.