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So customer reporting she plugged in a faulty LED light and it tripped both upstairs and downstairs lighting MCBs indicating that the circuits are connected (the board has no RCDs - yet). Before I go and do a CU change to RCBOs I need to identify the source of this fault. I'm interested to hear how others might approach this scenario in terms of the fault-finding method? Is it just a case of testing continuity between MCB 1 and the fixtures of circuit 2 until you find a leg that shows a connection is present?
 

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