can anyone give me insight to earth leakage, i know travels down earth path etc.. just a few cases of why iy happens , what type of equipment you know it happens on and how to test for earth leakage, isit a live test???? thanks...
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tumble dryer is tripping the rcd ,tested the rcd 0.5, x1 and x5 all worked out ok, even ran a extension lead from the house to the tumble dryer (normally fed by sub-main in outhouse) turned on and tripped the rcd in the house,
1) now i was wondering if there was a way to measure the...
Am I right on sayin earth leakage is when someone touches a live conductor or is this totally wrong, and high integ earthing that is wen u pull an extra earth in say on a comp ring but do u pull extra earth in so the csa is bigger then ya phase n neatural conductors
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My first job on a TT system quick look and me thinks it has 100ma RCD but am told its an early eath leakage device ?? and needs to be removed ? any of your valuable thoughts would be gratefully recieved:D
I'm not a sparky. I have two houses on my plot (not in England) and the small house takes a mains feed from the main house and has its own consumer unit. For some reason we get little shocks from things like computer cases from anything connected to the second consumer unit.
We do not have the...
I've been looking at getting a clamp meter for a while but I'd like one that does earth leakage also, there isn't many about and the ones I have found are stupid money for the rare time they will get used, megger ones are about £350, I can't justify spending anywhere near this...
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can anyone recommend me a decent earth leakage clamp meter. seems every other post nowadays is a 'rcd keeps tripping' one. i'm tooling up for going it alone in the near future, if work in the company i work for doesnt start to pick up, and these seem to be an invaluable tool to have in...
just need a quick simple description of earth leakage have changed aconsumer board from an old wylex rewireable (the shower fuse had been updated to an mcb)on this board shower runs ok however on the new board with mcb's covered by a thity ma rccd it trips have rulled out any problems with...
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I've some questions to know.Normally,I spotted Electrical design in Main Switch Board was installed with IDMT/Overcurrent to the incoming.I slightly confused when we should isntall this part.Only at the incoming MSB?On the other hand,I would like to know when we should apply the Earth...
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