Mattywing90
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Hi all. Please be patient as I don't know much about electrics!
We had a powercut in the area Tuesday 9th November afternoon - blown fuses in the sub opposite the property caused a 70 property outage. That was resolved Tuesday evening.
The main switch on the RCD flipped once that evening, I flipped it back up and it was all OK.
Wednesday 10th I started work (from home) at 7am. I'd been working fine until 9.30am when the RCD flipped again. This happened several times that morning, but there was no pattern - anywhere from 20 seconds to 90 minutes between me flicking the switch up and it flicking down.
It got to a stage where I couldn't work so I turned everything off and unplugged everything (literally everything even the boiler, fridge, freezer, went in the attic and turned off my aerial), and with nothing plugged in at all the RCD main switch was still flipping, again with no sort of pattern and it didn't happen straight away every time - sometimes id wait minutes or an hour and it would go.
Energy supplier said not their issue. Called an electrician out, he said something (please bear with me as I'm not too clued up), there were spikes or something of 20 ohms, and that it was an energy supplier issue.
I called the energy supplier again, they sent someone out. They checked whatever they checked outside and at the RCD and said no fault found. Sods law it didn't actually flip while they were here.
I phoned the electrician who came out to me earlier that day (private electrician) and they conversed and said something about being on a TT and needing to change to PME to fix the problem, but I'd have to pay quite alot of money for this change?
It was fine since Wednesday evening. All day yesterday was fine. I woke up this morning to no power again.
It doesn't make sense to me that everything has been fine until the area power cut, and the RCD is still tripping with literally nothing connected to the circuit at all, and there's no pattern to it - there's nothing I can do to replicate it, it just happens.
Just to mention, none of the other switches on the RCD flip either, just the main one.
Should I get another electrician for a second opinion? Or can anyone please help shed some light on this?
Thank you for your time.
Matthew
We had a powercut in the area Tuesday 9th November afternoon - blown fuses in the sub opposite the property caused a 70 property outage. That was resolved Tuesday evening.
The main switch on the RCD flipped once that evening, I flipped it back up and it was all OK.
Wednesday 10th I started work (from home) at 7am. I'd been working fine until 9.30am when the RCD flipped again. This happened several times that morning, but there was no pattern - anywhere from 20 seconds to 90 minutes between me flicking the switch up and it flicking down.
It got to a stage where I couldn't work so I turned everything off and unplugged everything (literally everything even the boiler, fridge, freezer, went in the attic and turned off my aerial), and with nothing plugged in at all the RCD main switch was still flipping, again with no sort of pattern and it didn't happen straight away every time - sometimes id wait minutes or an hour and it would go.
Energy supplier said not their issue. Called an electrician out, he said something (please bear with me as I'm not too clued up), there were spikes or something of 20 ohms, and that it was an energy supplier issue.
I called the energy supplier again, they sent someone out. They checked whatever they checked outside and at the RCD and said no fault found. Sods law it didn't actually flip while they were here.
I phoned the electrician who came out to me earlier that day (private electrician) and they conversed and said something about being on a TT and needing to change to PME to fix the problem, but I'd have to pay quite alot of money for this change?
It was fine since Wednesday evening. All day yesterday was fine. I woke up this morning to no power again.
It doesn't make sense to me that everything has been fine until the area power cut, and the RCD is still tripping with literally nothing connected to the circuit at all, and there's no pattern to it - there's nothing I can do to replicate it, it just happens.
Just to mention, none of the other switches on the RCD flip either, just the main one.
Should I get another electrician for a second opinion? Or can anyone please help shed some light on this?
Thank you for your time.
Matthew
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