Tripped circuit won't work again so I've no working lights upstairs - please help!

[Tara100]

Hello

I live alone, so I have no help here with electric issues and would really appreciate some advice.

I have no working lights upstairs at the moment, and don't know what to do.....

I switched on an upstairs light this afternoon, and the bulb blew and the rest of the lights in the fitting didn't come on (the bulbs are the small halogen capsule types) Anyway, I wasn't worried as I just presumed the circuit had tripped, and I just had to pop downstairs and lift up the tripped switch.

So I flicked up the offending trip switch on the fuse box (which along with all the electrics is 7 or 8 years old, as I had a rewire and new fuse box, so it's not ancient)
The trouble is, though the switch stays in the upright position, and outwardly appears ok, I still have no lights in any of the upstairs rooms.

The control unit is called 'Crabtree Starbreaker' (I can see a sticker on the its front saying that there is a 'test' button, but I can't see that button)
Is it a case of removing the what looks like a pull out section with the tripped switch inside and getting a replacement? Excuse my ignorance, but I'm presuming these are fuses?


Many thanks
Tara

 

[telectrix]

Re: Tripped circuit won't work again so I've no working lights upstairs - please help

:cheesy:

give my regards to basil and sybil. and don't forget manuel!

 

[sedgy34]

Re: Tripped circuit won't work again so I've no working lights upstairs - please help

give my regards to basil and sybil. and don't forget manuel!

your showing your age

 

[Tara100]

Re: Tripped circuit won't work again so I've no working lights upstairs - please help

give my regards to basil and sybil. and don't forget manuel!

I live around the corner from the Gleneagles Hotel, which is where the Monty Python team stayed and John Cleese got the inspiration for Faulty Towers.....apparantly, the manager there behaved exactly like Basil, and there was a certain spanish waiter too :6:



I still watch the Faulty re-runs on UK Gold ;-)

 

[ipf]

Re: Tripped circuit won't work again so I've no working lights upstairs - please help

I live around the corner from the Gleneagles Hotel, which is where the Monty Python team stayed and John Cleese got the inspiration for Faulty Towers.....apparantly, the manager there behaved exactly like Basil, and there was a certain spanish waiter too :6:


I still watch the Faulty re-runs on UK Gold ;-)

A good job you didn't ask the lanky beggar to sort things out, eh. Always worth watching.lol.