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ChrisR
Working on some home electrics with a peculiar problem which I hope someone might be able to comment upon…
Randomly, the trip switch trips…! It’s an old trip switch and fuse box and I’ve been lead to believe that the old style trip switches will eventually trip and not be able to be reset BUT in this case it is simply trips frequently (often overnight but not exclusively so. No apparent pattern, ie. not at the same time or after the same appliance is switched on) so what I’m wondering is whether when they get old these trip switches are also prone to randomly tripping? Don’t want to install a new trip unless it is likely that this is the source of the malfunction because the new unit will have a lower resistance and therefore if this isn’t the source of the problem will potentially trip more frequently.
For reference, I have taken a couple of pictures of the fuse box and trip switch for illustration:
Fuse box = http://www.flickr.com/photos/7311928@N04/2161458715/
Trip switch = http://www.flickr.com/photos/7311928@N04/2162255542/in/photostream/
Hope someone can suggest something...
Thanks,
Chris
Randomly, the trip switch trips…! It’s an old trip switch and fuse box and I’ve been lead to believe that the old style trip switches will eventually trip and not be able to be reset BUT in this case it is simply trips frequently (often overnight but not exclusively so. No apparent pattern, ie. not at the same time or after the same appliance is switched on) so what I’m wondering is whether when they get old these trip switches are also prone to randomly tripping? Don’t want to install a new trip unless it is likely that this is the source of the malfunction because the new unit will have a lower resistance and therefore if this isn’t the source of the problem will potentially trip more frequently.
For reference, I have taken a couple of pictures of the fuse box and trip switch for illustration:
Fuse box = http://www.flickr.com/photos/7311928@N04/2161458715/
Trip switch = http://www.flickr.com/photos/7311928@N04/2162255542/in/photostream/
Hope someone can suggest something...
Thanks,
Chris