I have recently added two double sockets in a lounge original nor realising that the source was a spur that someone had already wrongly spure, so two existing double sockets a spur from a spur I then added 2 sockets across the room on a back to back wall essentially creating 4 spurs which...
Hi,
We have an old cooker on the mains with a cooker mains red switch with a normal plug next to it.
The red switch is in the off position as is the plug switch.
Whenever I reset the RCD for the cooker ring in the fuse box, the entire RCD trips again - even if the cooker's red switch on the...
Hi,
So I have the Horstmann channel plus h37xl controller.
I set my required heating setting for zone 1, 2 and water and also set the correct date and time.
However, when I went back maybe 24 hours later, the clock was incorrect by maybe 1-2 hours and the heating settings had reset.
There...
Hi, I'm hoping you can help me as I it's driving me insane!
So my electric keeps tripping when I plug my dryer in, now I know it's not a faulty dryer because it's the 3rd we've tried and it worked perfectly fine at a friend's for a week. My partner plugged a drill in last night and it tripped...
Hi, we just bought a little house and are having issues will being able to run what we need. I am looking for advise to help manage over the next couple weeks and some insite to what is going on.
The circuit blows and the whole house goes out off of the switch that says 15. We need to run space...
So I got told on the plumbers forum that there was an issue with some pop up popping up and making people consent to stuff.
Now the pop-up, is genuine.
It's made by Google, and is for Google tracking cookies. So no blocker will block it. Well, most blockers wont block it.
I kept seeing it...
I changed 3 x 125A fuses for 3 x 125A D type MCBs (ABB). They held for a day and then two started tripping, we didn't have any spare 125A, so we fitted 100A C type and the issue has disappeared, can anyone shed any light on this for me please?
Please be gentle guys as not had much experience of burglar alarms. So fitted the challenger 10 range in a bungalow. Fitted all 6 pir's, fitted remote keypad, fitted main panel. Have not connected panel to mains yet or fitted the battery so a completely dead new install. Fitted the bellbox last...
On the other side it is the power transformer. Trying to figure out why my lg 55lf6000 screen keeps blinking in 1.5 second intervals. So I’m wondering if that spot looks burnt and hoping it is the cause. It’s just I’m wondering if that spot is normal.
Morning All
I have a Hotpoint Aquarius Washer Dryer WD440 and the program is set Im unable to reset it and every time i turn it on and close the door it Trips the fuse box
Not sure what the problem is wish I could reset the program to drain it and also figure out why its doing this its a...
I just put a wash into my machine 'Hotpoint Aquarius 900 WM61. It started OK then tripped the mains switch. I've checked the fuse in the plug that works.. I'm at a loss as there's a wash inside it with water. I'm just wondering what would be the best course of action? I've not had problems with...
I've a 10 yr old Neff combination oven (B6447N0GB /05) that failed recently, and I can't get a replacement component. I found a brand new oven - exactly the same model and revision - I thought I was sorted, but it arrived damaged :( So now I have two ovens, and hoping to make a working oven...
Hi,
I'm the landlord of a rented property.
I recently had the fuse box (dcu) changed from the old "wire type" to the newer mcb/rcd type.
It has been 5 months since it was replaced by a qualified electrician.
My tenant has informed me that he has replaced 4 kettles since then.
1. All kettles...
Hello & Merry Christmas,
Last week when waking up the lights and sockets in the bedrooms upstairs were off, along with the ground floor kitchen sockets. Flipping the RCD, and the trip switch for the kichen sockets and upstairs lights seemed to work fine - we have no new appliance installed or...
Expecting a are tomorrow.
Fault report,
"Whole board blown"
Found the circuit that had a dead short and was not only taking out the B6 MCB but also the B63 at the feed DB.
This was an outside circuit feeding two lanterns either side of the door...
And some new (Yesterday) sockets, just...
I have a Lightsys 2 installed and it has been working fine for a few years. Two weeks ago it started triggering every morning around the same time (but not exactly it could be within 2-3 minutes different) at the same zone every time.
Eventually I have disconnected the sensors (volume sensors)...
hi there there split rcd board with rcd keeps tripping maybe once twice sometimes 3 times a day turned the washing machine on tripped straight away got rid got another’s one now it’s tripping jus now and then
Hi all, thank you for reading my post.
My first one so I hope it is in the right spot.
I just bought a house in Thailand. I moved in a week ago and 3 days ago a jumper started cutting out. Since then it has been doing so more frequently and now I am unable to put it in the on position.
I am a...
I wired my garage this summer. Installed panel, laced it in. 24 circuits. Over 200 plugs lights ect. No issues. It all works fine
Except 1 circuit. 15 amp runs from panel to 1 gfi. Loads out to basic 15 amp plug. From there to gfi number 2 in the bathroom. In on the line terminals of course...
These Official Forum Sponsors May Provide Discounts to Regular Forum Members - If you would like to sponsor us then CLICK HERE and post a thread with who you are, and we'll send you some stats etc