- Reaction score
- 6,409
Just got back from a call-out, simple case of cooker taking the RCD out. A twin oven, seems in good working order so after a bit of a faff managed to get a clamp over the cpc at the switch (no idea where the house rod is!) and sure enough the bottom oven is leaking about 10mA when firing. So, after a bit of poking about decided it's most probably just tipping the balance on cumulative leakage from all over - only a 16th board and one RCD, with 2 x fully equipped home offices. Explained the schoolboy physics to them and all is well, told them to buy a new oven (just not worth the mending time) but both top and main running quite happily when I left.
Wasn't going to get into field stripping the oven to IR elements etc (has digital controls etc) as just not practical but if we reverse the maths based on 500v then it might have made around 50Meg, so theoretically would pass anyway. But I just can't shift this slight unease that I should have ripped it out?
Wasn't going to get into field stripping the oven to IR elements etc (has digital controls etc) as just not practical but if we reverse the maths based on 500v then it might have made around 50Meg, so theoretically would pass anyway. But I just can't shift this slight unease that I should have ripped it out?