I have purchased a number of expensive copper dowsing&reynolds light switches which have been fitted by an electrician as part of a refurb project.
I am not proposing to do this myself, but as previous advice on the forum has been very useful, so would like to know if this is possible before...
UPDATE to this perplexing problem. I am grateful to everyone for their time and contributions.
An expert visited a couple of weeks ago. He found that the problem was not over-current, rather accumulated earth leakage - as has been suggested by some above - and a Neutral-Earth fault on the...
Not sure I understand your questions / comments.
To my simple mind:
Never previously had a single rcd trip. A/C installed by what I believe is reputable experienced company. Almost immediately frequent RCD trips. Could prevent them by isolating A/C both internally and externally. Seemed a...
Hopefully new electrician coming on 15th. I will invite him to comment if he can or cannot resolve it. That will obviously be much more useful than my observations.
I will point him to this thread but would you recommend I ask him any specific questions ? I am not suggesting that as a...
#67 as part of the research I came across recommendations about not putting inverters on RCDs. I suggested this to electrician but he wasn't comfortable with that
#61 - correct. We had DW unplugged all day yesterday and could replicate tripping.
Coincidentally we had the DW replaced a few months ago and the original one had been hard wired in, so as part of the installation the electrician changed the fixed wiring to a single socket. So this is also new...
Yes if I isolate the air con external units or turn the air con mcb's off OR leave the air con on and isolate the dishwasher (irrespective of whether it is plugged in or not).
Ta - electrician previously supplied quote for swapping all mobs to rcbo's as one of the options. Not sure why we didn't do it - I think he wasn't certain it would solve it.
Thanks for suggestions. Am in the hospital today so haven't been able to do much more observations.
Murdoch (msg 42) not sure what you mean by "off", but all the internal units have been off for months, and tripping occurs frequently when they are not on.
Devon Chris (43) A/C circuits new...
Marconi,
Have tried your steps. Unplugged dishwasher.
To complicate things even further in the middle of the night RCD tripped again. This time it could not be reset unless mcb for A?C 3,4,5 was switched off. This is the first time this circuit has been a problem. So this has altered the...
Marconi - it's a new miele dishwasher and it's only 4 screws to pull it out. Will be able to do without much difficulty.
I will try as you suggest - will report back and be interested in the results.
Booking a new electrician.
Sparkie - one of the troubleshooting steps previously was to...
Marconi - from the A/C contract:
To supply, install and commission a comfort cooling system at the agreed location.
We have specifically selected Mitsubishi Electric equipment for this installation. Mitsubishi Electric are widely recognised as leading manufacturers of air conditioning...
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