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Washing machine tripping RCD
Hi, I have just had installed a new RCD consumer unit and the washing machine keeps tripping it, what should I do? the washing machine is only a few years old. Could it be an issue with the plug socket? Also would installing a plug socket RCD as well stop it from tripping the main one or is...- joolzhaines
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- electricians' talk elements fault machine motor rcd tripping tripping rcd washing
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- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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Safety circuits safe or not??
Hi, Recently whilst investigating a fault on some equipment at work I noticed something I was unsure of about two different safety circuits. Machine 1. (Elevator control panel) All the safety elements (2x Door Switches, 1 Estop button and 3x Pull cords) are connected in series to the coil of a...- Paul Osman
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- circuit circuits electricians' talk elements machine power relay safe safety
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- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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pizza oven elements
Fitted a supply for a 4.5kw 3 element pizza oven. I'll add at this point, a second hand pizza oven from a pizza shop. Turned out the oven was faulty in that it kept tripping it's 30ma RCD after running for a couple of mins. I opened up the panel and isolated each element. All three elements...- Richard
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- electricians' talk elements oven
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- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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Autoclave heater elements
God I love this forum. Today I was working on an autoclave - big bugger - 415v, 3ph. Wrapped around it are four heater elements top on one phase, bottom on another phase and two middle ones on the 3rd phase. One of these has broken whilst they were changing a thermocouple. These elements have...- Chris Whitehead
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- electricians' talk elements heater
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- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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Changing Towel Rail elements - is this reasonable?
I rent out a flat some distance away from where I live, and new tenants told me that neither of the 2 bathrooms' towel rails were heating. They are controlled by a Patterson Heating EC.512 Mains signaling control. Given that both were not working, I suspected that the channel settings for these...- myDevonhome
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- changing electricians' talk elements reasonable towel towel rail
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- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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Measuring resistance of dimplex elements?
Is it possible to measure the resistance of the elements inside a dimplex storage heater without removing the bricks, by measuring the resistance at each connector block that the elements connect into? And what readings would be expected?- Kev2632
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- dimplex electricians' talk elements measuring resistance
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- Forum: UK Electrical Forum
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cooker elements
ive got a double oven and the elements have gone in both ovens can i replace the element on one oven and use this without it tripping the electric or will i have to replace the other one aswell even tho its not being used ?? thanks :seeya:- anne83
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- aus cooker electricians' talk elements
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- Forum: Australia
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Underfloor Heating Repair or repair kit?
Hi Folks, I've had a quick search for a thread on this but there are so many queries on UFH. I've been asked to repair some UFH where a carpenter has sliced through it with his stanley knife. I've never worked with UFH before but what i have been told is that this stuff is called elements e...- Geoffers
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- aus electricians' talk elements heating kit repair stuff though underfloor underfloor heating
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- Forum: Australia
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Fault driving me mad!!
Evening gents & gentesses, PLEASE if anyone has any ideas on the following it will save me either from madness or an extreme night of drunkeness down the pub... :hanged: Perfectly ordinary two up/down, MK sentry split board, slightly dodgy rewire done a while back by another that I've already... -
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RCD minimum times...
Hi, I'm investigating an intermittent problem in a flat. Every once in a while the RCD trips. The tenants have narrowed it down to one circuit, the electric hob. However, it never trips whilst I'm there, even after pouring water on the hob. I've carried out 500v insulation resistance tests, and...- silentboarder69
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- aus earth electricians' talk elements leakage minimum rcd times trips
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- Forum: Australia
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higher voltage needed
Just received a new lab oven that calls for 415V 60HZ 3 phase @ 45KW, the problem is that we only have 120/208Y available to us ( plenty of unused service). Question: Do I source a transformer or look into converting oven to run on 80A 208y?- dargo
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- canada electricians' talk elements equipment higher needed other transformer voltage volts
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- Forum: Electrician Talk | All Countries
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Storage Heater Fault......
Just been looking at a faulty storage heater. Tested the elements and thermal link all ok. Does anyone know what else could go wrong and where to look? -
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Shower only warm
I need some help please my daughters shower when swithed on the water is only warm not hot adjusting themostat makes no difference does this mean its the heating element or should I be looking at something else?- peteelecs
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- electricians' talk element elements power series shower warm
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- Forum: Talk Electrician Forum
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3 phase heater help needed
There is a 12KW heater installed being controlled by a three phase thyristor control. There are 6 x 2kw heating elements and i am stuggling to understand the operation. There are two elements connected to each phase but then they are then all linked to a common bar on the opposite side of the...- chid22
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- 3 phase electricians' talk elements heater help motor needed neutral phase point understand
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- Forum: Electrical Wiring, Theories and Regulations
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Cables heating up
Installed a new 4 core 50mm swa to a 3 phase db to fed a heating panel.the length is 92metres. The underfloor elements had not been used in three years and the clients got us to rewire the circuits with 4mm tri rated single cores, after connecting them up at the elements and at the contactors...- PURDY1888
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- cables current electricians' talk elements heating problem
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- Forum: Electrical Wiring, Theories and Regulations
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heat box wiring - 6 oven heat elements
hi all, I'm making a heat box with 6 x 1KW oven heat elements inside. I need some guidance with regards to how to wire this box up. some simple instructions on which wires to use, where to source them etc, would be greatly appreciated. I would prefer if the box had a single plug which could...- imykh
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- box electricians' talk elements heat oven wiring
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- Forum: Electrical Wiring, Theories and Regulations
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cooker keeps tripping rcd
Hi Im pulling me hair out got a cooker that keeps tripping rcd not the trip it mainly happens once its had fan oven on for a while and when you want to check ya dinner ya open the door and it trips it doesnt have a light on it so it doesnt have a switch on door oven remains running when door...- bluematt1
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- aus being cooker doesnt electricians' talk element elements keeps rcd tripping tripping rcd
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- Forum: Australia
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oven not working
Hi , looked at an oven this afternoon that had tripped its mcb 40A, on 10mm T&E, and on resetting it the oven did not work. However, fan and grill both still worked. Tested continuity across L and N at isolator - greater than 199 ohms with oven switched off and 127 ohms with dials turned on...- pushrod
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- aus cooker electrical work electricians' talk element elements not working oven screws working
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- Forum: Australia
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mira shower
hello to everybody im new to this site i have a problem with the shower its mira 8.7kw when i switch it on the main tripped out i checked and found that the shower is short somewhere and i suspect its the elements i want to know can i get the new elements or i have to spend £200 thanks- narinderjit
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- electricians' talk elements mira shower spares
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- Forum: Talk Electrician Forum
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