Hi.
Had a guy in yesterday to look at the tumble dryer and he told my wife he couldn’t work on it because the ring circuit of the house had a fault showing on his meter of over 2 ohms.
Wasn’t quite sure what this meant but I’m taking it as neutral to earth leakage???
I don’t really have any test gear but when I power off my board I see a continuity reading between earth and live wires. I then removed each earth one at a time and found that all this leakage was on my cooker circuit.
I then took out the cooker (which is plugged into a double socket) and still saw this leakage. My microwave is also on this socket and when I removed it the leakage was gone. A test of the plug of my microwave showed around 7 m ohms. Now this is done with just a fluke so no real voltage.
Could this be the cause of what he told my wife?
House testing isn’t something I do and just need guidance if the thought is that this is what he has picked up on because he ha cut the lead off the dryer and my wife now thinks the house will blow up!!!
Thanks in advance. Don’t really want to have to call in a sparky if it’s just. Bad microwave.
Had a guy in yesterday to look at the tumble dryer and he told my wife he couldn’t work on it because the ring circuit of the house had a fault showing on his meter of over 2 ohms.
Wasn’t quite sure what this meant but I’m taking it as neutral to earth leakage???
I don’t really have any test gear but when I power off my board I see a continuity reading between earth and live wires. I then removed each earth one at a time and found that all this leakage was on my cooker circuit.
I then took out the cooker (which is plugged into a double socket) and still saw this leakage. My microwave is also on this socket and when I removed it the leakage was gone. A test of the plug of my microwave showed around 7 m ohms. Now this is done with just a fluke so no real voltage.
Could this be the cause of what he told my wife?
House testing isn’t something I do and just need guidance if the thought is that this is what he has picked up on because he ha cut the lead off the dryer and my wife now thinks the house will blow up!!!
Thanks in advance. Don’t really want to have to call in a sparky if it’s just. Bad microwave.