I have a fairly recently installed consumer unit with an RCD, between it and the garden there is another, much older (25yrs?) RCB (big Wylex thing)
from which a couple of power points are provided on the wall of my fish ponds. Before the consumer unit was fitted I could run the pond pump
from...
My garden lighting was tripping my MCB so I checked all the junction boxes outside.
I disconnected the live, neutral and earth connections in each junction box one by working away from the house and resetting the MCB until it tripped again.
So, I’ve found it’s tripping when one box is...
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My hot tub keeps tripping after 12 years of use. I'm thinking it's the GFCI gone bad. Unfortunately it's a CH 2 pole 50 amp (GFTCB250) and they are on national backorder. The only options I can think of are to put a GFCI in the main panel (Sqaure D) and replace the GFCI at the disconnect...
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My 3 month old grid tie inverter has tripped on 3 occasions at startup.
Have read plenty of threads here about similar issues but unclear as to the fix.
So for my setup the inverter goes to a separate mcb on a separate secondary consumer unit. There is rcd protection here and it does...
Hi, I bought my Zanussi ZCV663MWC cooker ten years ago, I replaced the top element four months ago and its been fine until now. When I turn the top oven on it heats up then after ten minutes it trips the mains. Also I have never used the bottom oven but when I turned it on it also tripped the...
An electrician I talked to said that AFCI breakers on old (1950s) wiring tend to experience a lot of nuisance tripping. I plan to install several GFCI receptacles. If I use AFCI/GFCI receptacles, are they likely to have the same problem?
Hi all, I have been on a site repairing damage caused by travellers collecting copper for the last week. We have found and replaced cabling to get the site up and running. Power has been on for a few days but today the 11KV ring main unit tripped. This feeds a transformer attached to the main...
I installed outdoor lighting and outlets. I finished this past year. I passed my inspection on April 2022. I was so pleased, BUT now the circuit the outlets are on has a problem... the circuit keeps tripping. Question 1: I was wondering if there's a way to test the circuit breaker itself? Then...
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I had a new Alarm Panel installed in January and all was working well until I got a new Consumer Unit installed Last Week which has RCBOs.
The previous Unit was just a Fuse Box.
The Alarm Panel is on its own Circuit connected via a Fused Spur.
The RCBO for the...
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My main feed comes into the garage, feeds into the meter and then out to another box with a 60AMP fuse then into the house consumer unit. There are tails feeding the consumer unit in the garage, which up until recently didn't have any RCD protection. As part of a recent...
I was recently called to a domestic nuisance tripping job, dual-RCD Wylex board with one of the RCCBs tripping intermittently, mostly during the night. TNC-S, rewired couple of years ago (not by me).
Three circuits on this RCCB: Cooker, Downstairs sockets, Downstairs lights (I know - dumb...
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I have a 1950s rental house with a 100 amp main panel with a main shut off breaker. Breakers are Eaton/Cutler Hammer type, so the panel is not super old. It was also checked by the previous tenant (a professional electrician) just a few months ago, who said that the panel and...
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Hope you’re keeping well. Currently have an issue onbaord with regards to one of generators tripping.
The generator is capable of taking full load when running in parallel with other generators, but when power demand drops and they go offline the faulty generator will trip causing a...
Even if the cooker and the plug is turned off it still trips after about an hour. It doesn't immediately trip out but it usually always turns back off after an hour or two, it doesn't immediately trip out. Do you think I need a new plug? Can a device plugged into another circuit trip a different...
Hello all! Newer house, original owner(Florida). no change to electrical system. Just found there was an outlet (GFCI) in the closet so I wanted to put a paper shredder in there but it didn't work because the GFCI was tripped. Would not reset so I changed it out, new GFCI will not set either. IN...
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I have recently installed a sub main in 4mm 3-core SWA, approx length 45 metres, to feed a small garden office.
Final circuits in the cabin are protected by 30mA RCBOs and the supply is fed from a 32A MCB on the non-RCD side of the DB in the house. As the installation is TT I put in...
I’m installing a gfci outlet inline with the power that goes to my well pressure switch. The GFCI will be to power the heat tape on the well supply line. The power is a 20 amp breaker. I installed a 15 amp GFCI jumping from the power line to the line plates on the GFCI. I did this to separate...
hi guys i'm new toi the forum but hoping someone can shed some light on this issue, my daughter moved into her house last year and all was fine until one day she'd found the sockets had tripped so reset and and were working fine again only for a few weeks later they tripped again she has done...
Recently my RCCB keeps keeps tripping intermittently. It can happen between several hours to few days when a trip will occur. During the trips, no additional appliances were switched on or being used. There are times when it simply trips in middle of night when most appliances are not running...
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