Hi all, have just done EICR on a property, managed to get the house to pass with some corrections along the way. House is an old thatched place, wiring about 40 yeas old, RCD main switch in the consumer unit.
Before I started, customer advised me they had an issue with their oven, when they turn their oven on sometimes it tripped the RCD. If they tuned some of the MCB's off, it would stay on. It is an AEG induction hob/oven
I carried out electrical checks on the cooker radial circuit twice, just to make sure, readings came out ok. As soon as connect to the oven, trips RCD main switch. House is on a TT system, I know you get some leakage back from an oven but I cannot get my head round this problem. With cooker disconnected from outlet and cooker cable hanging loose, no problem, cooker radial circuit is ok, powers up fine, no trip the RCD.
To use oven, turn some lighting circuits off, seems to run OK?
Cabling in property is about 40 years old, have suggested to customer partial rewire.
Any advice would be appreciated. New to electrics, don't know a lot yet, any help greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Before I started, customer advised me they had an issue with their oven, when they turn their oven on sometimes it tripped the RCD. If they tuned some of the MCB's off, it would stay on. It is an AEG induction hob/oven
I carried out electrical checks on the cooker radial circuit twice, just to make sure, readings came out ok. As soon as connect to the oven, trips RCD main switch. House is on a TT system, I know you get some leakage back from an oven but I cannot get my head round this problem. With cooker disconnected from outlet and cooker cable hanging loose, no problem, cooker radial circuit is ok, powers up fine, no trip the RCD.
To use oven, turn some lighting circuits off, seems to run OK?
Cabling in property is about 40 years old, have suggested to customer partial rewire.
Any advice would be appreciated. New to electrics, don't know a lot yet, any help greatly appreciated. Thank you.