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    TT system, earth to neutral not tripping RCD

    TT system, Zs on socket circuit is 77.2 down a good bit after I added a second earth rod. When I short neutral to earth RCD doesn't trip. Can anyone help me out and explain please.
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    Sockets tripping after board upgrade - should have been rewired

    After updating a consumer unit, from an old rewireable fuse board, one of the socket circuits is tripping when under load. The property should have been rewired as the installation is so dated but the project manager and client didn't want to rewire it. The supply to the flat is approximately...
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    Fuse tripping when using mitre saw

    From time to time the fuse is tripped when I use my mitre saw the first time, in house sockets seem tobe ok but not for those in the garage. Its the first one (B16), do I just need to call out an professional to replace it for a B32 and if so how much would that cost please? Thanks
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    RCD tripping overnight with nothing connected

    Good evening. Had a new consumer unit fitted a week ago, Paid over £500+vat for a proteus 5+5 board to replace an old non-rcd board. Ever since it was fitted the right hand RCD has tripped in the middle of the night, between around 11pm and 7am, every night. This powers a socket circuit, an...
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    RCD nuisance tripping headscratcher.

    I have been out to a nuisance tripping RCD this morning, there are 3 socket circuits, 1 boiler circuit, and 1 oven circuit protected by the RCD. I started by checking the IR between L-E and N-E, the reading was between 2 and 3 M ohms on every circuit and leg. I then disconnected the CPCs for...
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    UK Cooker dedicated RCD tripping under zero load

    Hi, I am new to the forum, and a DIYer. For a couple of weeks our cooker circuit has been tripping the RCD in the Breaker dedicated to this circuit at the CU. The cooker is a Falcon 90cm induction hob unit, it is installed with a fused dipole isolation switch. The tripping has always happened...
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    New Home Construction with Tripping Arc Fault Breakers

    Greetings All: I am new to this forum and hope I am in the correct sub-group. We are nearly completed with our new home construction...just a couple weeks from moving in. The 200Amp service panel has 4, sometimes 5 arc fault breakers that repeatedly trip at random times. There are NO...
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    RCD Tripping Nuisance / Faults

    Q1: I am not far off getting professional in but which professionals and how to find a good one? I have researched and investigated a bit myself and concluded that: My clamp meter (MP780050 £40ish from Farnell, so cheap not calibrated, no ability to detect dc etc etc) was really helpful in...
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    Led downlights tripping RCD

    Hi all, Just powered up 6 new led downlights and RCD is tripping. All wiring disconnected and checked, no faults? Tried light on a separate supply and still trips RCD...very strange. Is the led (integrated but 240v) causing a surge and/ or a lag?
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    RCD tripping.

    So I’ve been working at a cafe and I have an RCD as main switch by the incoming supply which is up the drive and it comes into the cafe fuseboard which is a split load with two 63A RCDs. They’ve been having the RCD trip constantly at the end of the drive and not the ones INSIDE the cafe fuse...
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    Rcd tripping

    Hi all I recently built a new garage. Wired it myself put up the fuse board but now when I go to plug in any appliance the rcd trips out. Theres nothing else plugged into the sockets. I wonder did I make a mistake wiring the fuse board?11
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    Electric UFH tripping RCD

    Hi all, i'm a home owner just looking for some advice. Over Christmas the RCD on a split panel fuse box kept tripping. We narrowed this down to the master bathroom underfloor heating. The buildout for the loft including the master bathroom is about two years old, the UFH is under tiles. I think...
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    RCDs tripping during heavy rains

    Hi all - hopefully you can forgive my lack of knowledge on electrics, I have a basic grasp but am no expert. The issue I've had and am looking for an initial steer on is that during some extremely heavy rains recently, after a long spell the RCDs will trip. While still raining, they will not...
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    electrical my bathroom lghts keep randomly tripping

    my bathroom lights keep tripping

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