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Hi. I have a rental property where the cooker trips the electrics. Initially I had the cooker elements replaced. It still tripped. I replaced the cooker with new. An electrician has test the wiring and says it is safe. He replaced the circuit breaker with a 40a. It still trips. He doesn't know why. Can you help? Thankyou
 
Hi. I have a rental property where the cooker trips the electrics. Initially I had the cooker elements replaced. It still tripped. I replaced the cooker with new. An electrician has test the wiring and says it is safe. He replaced the circuit breaker with a 40a. It still trips. He doesn't know why. Can you help? Thankyou
Is the circuit on and rcd ,is it the mcb that's tripping
 
Hi. I have a rental property where the cooker trips the electrics. Initially I had the cooker elements replaced. It still tripped. I replaced the cooker with new. An electrician has test the wiring and says it is safe. He replaced the circuit breaker with a 40a. It still trips. He doesn't know why. Can you help? Thankyou
Does it trip straight away
 
Hi. I have a rental property where the cooker trips the electrics. Initially I had the cooker elements replaced. It still tripped. I replaced the cooker with new. An electrician has test the wiring and says it is safe. He replaced the circuit breaker with a 40a. It still trips. He doesn't know why. Can you help? Thankyou
What size of cable is feeding cooker.6.00m ,10mm etc
 
Hi. I have a rental property where the cooker trips the electrics. Initially I had the cooker elements replaced. It still tripped. I replaced the cooker with new. An electrician has test the wiring and says it is safe. He replaced the circuit breaker with a 40a. It still trips. He doesn't know why. Can you help? Thankyou

I don't think so. It seems intermittent
Would need to know if it's an rcbo or mcb or rcd covering mcb.what kilowatt is your cooker
 
I don't know. An electrician has looked at and said it is suitable. They tested with high voltage tester and replaced cooker switch as well as circuit breaker
If its intermittent without any more info and you've replaced cooker then could only assume the circuit is the issue ,or maybe there's a join in cable behind wall .if it's a relatively new kitchen you could bet cooker has changed position .photos of consumer unit and cooker may help
 
If its intermittent without any more info and you've replaced cooker then could only assume the circuit is the issue ,or maybe there's a join in cable behind wall .if it's a relatively new kitchen you could bet cooker has changed position .photos of consumer unit and cooker may help
Thanks Jock. The kitchen was replaced but cooker in same place. I think I'll ask the electrician to replace cable from cooker to breaker.
 
Thanks Jock. The kitchen was replaced but cooker in same place. I think I'll ask the electrician to replace cable from cooker to breaker.
Maybe ask him to perform continuity tests first before sending 500 volts thru circuit .also these tests have to be performed with any switch neons disconnected and appliance disconnected. I'm sure your sparky knows this .
 
Maybe ask him to perform continuity tests first before sending 500 volts thru circuit .also these tests have to be performed with any switch neons disconnected and appliance disconnected. I'm sure your sparky knows this .
Thanks Jock. Hadn't heard of continuity test. I wondered if it might be the wire being nipped by screws on new kitchen Units. The house also had a rat in it during covid. It had an electric safety check and the electrician tested the cooker circuit with high voltage meter. He says that woukd show any weakness in the cable. If it's not the cooker, the cable or the breaker, could it be anything else?
 
Hi. I have a rental property where the cooker trips the electrics. Initially I had the cooker elements replaced. It still tripped. I replaced the cooker with new. An electrician has test the wiring and says it is safe. He replaced the circuit breaker with a 40a. It still trips. He doesn't know why. Can you help? Thankyou
Simply increasing size of mcb to 40 may make things worse.if it's say a 8 kw cooker then a 32 amp mcb would not trip the circuit .you can allow diversity to cookers .
 

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