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  1. S

    Nuisance RCD tripping - faulty RCD?

    Hi everyone. This has been an off and on issue for quite a few years, and seems to return for short periods of a few days or weeks and then goes away for months even a year or more. During the dodgy spells, the RCD trips at pretty random times - it was just after 10pm last night, after we'd all...
  2. N

    Smeg cooker tripping randomly

    Hi Hope someone could help, I have a Smeg induction range cooker that randomly trips the switch to all the plug sockets in the house but never trips the switch the cooker is on, we have had an electrician check the wire from the cooker to the mains and all came back OK and a specialist smeg...
  3. D

    CAFCI/GFCI Gremlin on sub panel

    Ok, I've got an issue I can't figure out to save my life. Background: I'm putting in a 100a sub panel in my detached 2 car high bay garage. Other than a 50a and a 30a 240v circuit(s), everything is on 20a circuits with CAFCI/GFCI Plug on Neutral Homeline circuit breakers...
  4. R

    RCCB tripping but no MCBs have tripped.

    I’ve a Square D Split load RCCB board that has a strange issue. The RCCB trips and none of the MCBs seem to trip. The only thing that has recently been done is replacing the sockets and switches. I’ve tested each socket with a socket tester and it was showing as correct on all sockets. I only...
  5. S

    GFCI WR outlets are tripping whenever I plug something in

    I am building an outdoor kitchen and have run a subpanel to the kitchen. I have an arc-fault 20 amp breaker with 4 GFCI WR outlets wired in parallel around the kitchen. They are caulked appropriately, with weather rated covers, etc. but for some reason, every time I try to test the outlet - they...
  6. S

    Both RCDS Tripping

    I have a problem with two separate rcds tripping, both are from the meter, one consumer unit in the house and one in the workshop 30m from the house. If the workshop rcd trips it also trips the house rcd. both consumer units are fed direct from the meter, the workshop having a 80a isolator...
  7. J

    RCD Tripping

    Hi all I have had my garage connected to my home electrics. However, when anything is plugged into any of the sockets and switched on, the house RCD trips. The garage RCD and breakers do not trip, just the house one that the armoured cable connects to. My electrician is away til October...
  8. HappyHippyDad

    Why is the RCD tripping?

    I have just popped out to a frustrated customer who has had intermittent tripping of a 30mA RCD for years, on average 5 - 10 x p/month. It used to be 10 x p/month a year ago, now it is around 5 times p/month. This is a dual RCD board (Harok??) with 2 socket circuits and 2 lighting circuits on...
  9. S

    TRIPPING RCD diyer!!

    Hi all, I have a very random problem and wondering if anyone maybe able to shed some light on this issue. When my next door neighbour uses his leaf blower it trips my main RCD! He uses it plugged into his garage and has a surge protection plug that it's plugged into. When he starts up the...
  10. J

    RCD Keeps tripping

    I have recently added two double sockets in a lounge original nor realising that the source was a spur that someone had already wrongly spure, so two existing double sockets a spur from a spur I then added 2 sockets across the room on a back to back wall essentially creating 4 spurs which...
  11. M

    UK RCD Fuse Box Keeps Tripping - Cooker Ring

    Hi, We have an old cooker on the mains with a cooker mains red switch with a normal plug next to it. The red switch is in the off position as is the plug switch. Whenever I reset the RCD for the cooker ring in the fuse box, the entire RCD trips again - even if the cooker's red switch on the...
  12. Z

    UK Rcd tripping cause?

    Daughter’s new house. Garage has very old wylex distribution box connected to a double socket and a lighting circuit with one neon. put an RCD’ed extension cord in socket and the RCD trips instantly. Measured leak current at main fuse area. The neon light was switched off. Leakages house as is...
  13. D

    Rcd tripping with no switch on after smart meter installarion

    Hi I am.from uk I had a gas top up meter and a electric smart meter installation Thought to ask my energy supplier to fit me a gas smart meter aswell Their enginner came and said we will have to install the electric meter aswell so they will combine the smart thing on the display But after...
  14. R

    UPS's tripping RCD

    Dear Forum, I am hoping you can help as not only have I already had a qualified electrician out who couldn't find the problem, I've put in hours of research myself so far and still not entirely sure what the solution should be. I work from home and have a number of APC Back-UPS 850 UPS devices...
  15. GBDamo

    Liklihood of adjacent RCBO tripping due to fault on another circuit?

    Got an odd one. Supply is TPN TN-CS and all looks reasonably tidy but the circuit schedules bear little resemblance to the DB contents. I have a piece of fixed equipment that is generating intermittent faults and tripping the C16 RCBO. The circuit tests fine at 999MOhms at 500V on IR. So it's...
  16. mc1903

    Intermittent RCD tripping. Benefit of changing over to RCBO's?

    Hi, We have recently had some electrical work completed in the house to add a new circuit for air conditioning. We are now experiencing intermittent RCD trips, at all hours of the day and night, in the section of the consumer unit that the new A/C MCB was installed into. No MCB's trip - just...
  17. The apprentice

    RCD tripping on lighting circuit

    Hi there I have a problem with rcd tripping in a department store, I changed 2 old board which where re wire fuses to dual rcd boards which all the other circuits stand but 2 circuit breakers which one does a few track lights for display and the other does 2 led tornado fittings when I energies...
  18. I

    Tripping intermittently

    Hi, someone tripping when they use the iron and have the soudbar on listening to music intermittently. I did the continuity on the sockets. Checked the rcd. All fine. I think it's the iron. Looks older that me like? Any opinions. Cheers matey
  19. A

    AFCI breaker tripping ONLY WHEN grid tie solar system active

    I had solar installed professionally 3 years ago. The home is 10 years old and has 3 AFCI breakers for bedrooms. One AFCI circuit was hardly used. A new mini fridge was plugged into the rarely used circuit. The mini fridge (60 watt) now causes the AFCI breaker to intermittently trip. I moved...
  20. C

    Pool Breaker Tripping

    Hello, I been having an issue with my breaker to my pool pump tripping. It's an odd scenario that two electricians are unable to provide a resolution. My pool pump is on one breaker and I can run the pump for 24/7 with no issues. My heat pump is on another breaker and when I put my heat pump...

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