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Hi.. If I could get a little advice, that'd be great. Thanks in advance.
Yesterday I replaced the surface mounted twin socket in my living room with a flush mounted one. This is the third I have done in my house, the rest of the sockets are already flush and these three looked very ugly!
It seemed to be a success. I took off the sockets and made the necessary holes in the walls, inserted the back box and used the same front plate that was already on the box.
I rewired them all, seemed pretty simple.
However, the circuit started tripping. Not immediately upon reset but after a few minutes. Nothing plugged into any of the sockets.
I removed the front plate on one of them and wrapped all the terminal wires in tape. This worked. The rcd didn't trip whilst the socket was disconnected. I wired it back up and once again tripped. Culprit found.
I wired the L and N back in and left the earth out. It did not trip.
tl:dr the earth in the socket is tripping the rcd when connected. It was not doing so when wired into the surface mounted box.
Any ideas why it would have started after the rewire?
Thanks a lot.
Yesterday I replaced the surface mounted twin socket in my living room with a flush mounted one. This is the third I have done in my house, the rest of the sockets are already flush and these three looked very ugly!
It seemed to be a success. I took off the sockets and made the necessary holes in the walls, inserted the back box and used the same front plate that was already on the box.
I rewired them all, seemed pretty simple.
However, the circuit started tripping. Not immediately upon reset but after a few minutes. Nothing plugged into any of the sockets.
I removed the front plate on one of them and wrapped all the terminal wires in tape. This worked. The rcd didn't trip whilst the socket was disconnected. I wired it back up and once again tripped. Culprit found.
I wired the L and N back in and left the earth out. It did not trip.
tl:dr the earth in the socket is tripping the rcd when connected. It was not doing so when wired into the surface mounted box.
Any ideas why it would have started after the rewire?
Thanks a lot.