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I spoke too soon, tripped again at the 11th hour. Its frustrating now. Guess will have to engage professional service to investigate, probably wait after my new fridge arrives in 4 days time. Sigh...I'm still intrigued by that bedroom MCB tripping.
The obvious solution ! After all the tripping over that time the device may have become too sensitive & not latching properlyI hate to bang on, but an RCD test when i suggested it would have helped .
RCD test, can elaborate more what is this? Can it done by my own or require license electrician?
Unfortunately, today my main RCCB tripped again, after 5 days!!! This time I managed to use my recent purchased GFCI power socket & then I plug my 2nd PC to this. Within minutes, the GFCI tripped w/o my mains tripping!!!
This GFCI socket actually tripped 2x when I turned on my 2nd PC connected to it, so I replace the power supply with a spare. Now am monitoring.
This is indeed very hard to determine with the longer intervals of a trip event but am subtly confident that am nearing a fix.
I did contact electricians & explained my issue, at least 2 of them stated that they cannot guarantee a fix but they can help narrow down the cause/s. They mentioned about mega ohm the circuit to check which I believed it is measuring the amount of leakage current in each circuit in my household.
Hopefully today's incident with the GFCI socket tripping on my 2nd PC is inferring the issue to be my PC, power supply or other components, this I might not know, at least I had the power supply replaced & monitor.
Very frustrating as it is very random & now becoming more sporadic & less frequent.
Am also hoping that the main RCCB is still fine, in case it gets much more sensitive to earth leakage after this many tripping...50x at least for now.
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