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    Nuisance RCD tripping - faulty RCD?

    Hi everyone. This has been an off and on issue for quite a few years, and seems to return for short periods of a few days or weeks and then goes away for months even a year or more. During the dodgy spells, the RCD trips at pretty random times - it was just after 10pm last night, after we'd all...
  2. Scottish1

    Faulty Circulator Pump? Wiring Issues

    Hi In a new property and the boiler is not firing. Investigating the junction box, there is a disconnected wire -labelled Unknown Red in image This cable runs from the boiler to the junction box. My interpretation is that this is likely to be circulating pump neutral? Any advice would be...
  3. S

    Faulty microwave combi- oven

    I have a fitted Zanussi microwave combi -oven which has stopped working. Door switches etc are OK as I have a 240 volt supply to the high voltage transformer, this transformer checks out OK. I did find the high voltage diode was faulty and changed this but oven still did not work. As I...
  4. L

    Best way to check if you any faulty appliances ?

    Our electric bill has double within the last 6 months and the electric company are now saying the bill will be £440 a month. The electric company installed a check meter to see if the main meter was faulty. The readings comeback fine and they are now saying that it is down to our usage. We live...
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    Faulty meter ?

    Hi, I recently bought a house with only electricity and no gas. The provider is British Gas. The thing is that the 6th digit in the meter is going up every second regardless of any appliance on or off. It went from 153623 to 155054 in about 14 minutes. ( The details on the meter : Telemeter...
  6. J

    Faulty gfci

    I have bathroom gfci circuit with two gfci in series, the down stream tripped wouldn't reset. Found line potential on both the neutral and hot wire. Further investigation found the up stream unit failed. Has anyone else ever seen this problem. Also the upstream gfci wasn't tripping.
  7. littlespark

    Faulty switch or something else??

    Going to look at a faulty grid switch isolator on Monday, hopefully just a faulty switch, but I’m wondering if there could have been a mix up with the original wiring. Worked in this house before where I found the legs of the upstairs and downstairs rfc’s had been mixed up at the board.... now...
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    How do you replace a faulty JCC V50 LED Unit?

    Apologies if this seems like a stupid question but one of our JCC V50s has just started flickering and I need to replace it. With other LED lights, you just replace the LED itself but with these it looks like you have to replace the whole unit. Is that correct? If that is correct, and tips for...
  9. W

    Immersion element faulty

    Customer complained of hot water running out quickly. Water cylinder has 2 elements in it, tested the top one, between live and neutral on low ohms. Got 19.2 ohms, tested the bottom one and got greater than 999, I’m assuming this is a faulty element
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    Does anyone know how to diagnose a faulty Dimplex Opti-Myst?

    I have a Dimplex Opti-Myst and it's become faulty. I changed the ceramic rings to be on the safe side after I needed to change the 24v fan on the side of the water tank but still very little is going on. Very faint whisps of steam rise, in fact I'd say less steam since replacing the fan, but was...
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    Heads up faulty pro-tek mcbs

    Not sure how wide-spread this is but undertaking an EICR on a unit comprising 4 pro-tek MCBs the other day, 3 of them refused to re-energise, felt like mechanical failure, 32 and 16amps, model with a large blue lever.
  12. K

    Faulty driver in mirror light/vanity unit

    so a friend has rang me regarding a problem with there vanity unit its the one with a light operated by a sensor and also has a shaver socket outlet on saying none of the two components are working I've not been to look yet but do me it sounds like the driver inside the unit maybe be faulty...
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    Faulty main 100A Fuse

    For some reason I'm getting the strange and unusual faults at the moment. Got called a day or so ago to a tripping RCD. House is quite old and has a modern extension, so there were two consumer units. The fault appeared to be in the older board (I say older it was a board from 2015ish). Anyway...
  14. J

    Electricity Meter Faulty

    Is it possible in a domestic premises to use 35KW of electricity per day? I ask because I've just had a bill from EDF saying that I used 3300KW of electricity from October to February (19 weeks). I've noticed that they think I’m using between 15KW and 35KW per day. When I only use about 60KW per...
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    Zanussi tumble dryer faulty PCB?

    Good morning all I have a Zanussi tumble dryer, zdc67550w, and it stop working. Symptoms: leds on, start/pause stays green. The 3h 6h 9h leds there are flasging in a sequence and pressing start button has bo effect what so ever. 8bhave done the following: empty the water container, clean the...
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    UK RCD tester faulty?

    I own a Robin 1620 tester and when using the rcd function, the dials are set, it is plugged into a socket but as soon as the switch is turned on ( not when the test button is pressed) there are no lights on the tester confirming correct voltage, the rcd trips and there is no reading at all any...
  17. littlespark

    Faulty electric radiator

    Had a call out to a holiday cottage a few days ago where the owner couldn’t control one of the heaters over the internet as they can with the others. I fitted these, bought by the customer and the the heater in question is only 3 months old. Easy lockdown job, vacant property. confirmed power...
  18. P

    Immersion faulty???

    Hi guys Customer had no hot water (house has no gas, electric only) The immersion is on an fcu with timer straight to a 18inch element. I replaced the element after testing for a good 230v supply across live and neutral and to earth. the customer has must phoned to say it’s still not heating...
  19. M

    Faulty Outlet

    Hello, I'm having this issue with an outlet. When I plug in my macbook air charger to it the charging status alternates rapidly between plugged in/ not plugged in. I know the MacBook and charger are not faulty as it charges fine in my other outlets. I am wondering why the electricity seems to be...
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    Faulty Economy 7 Meter?

    Hello all- hopefully this is the correct place to get help. My electricity bill has been almost 50 percent higher than the previous year. I have a storage heater which as a fused switch (with a led) for both on and off peak heating. I noticed today that both the on and off peak lights are on...

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