Hoover tripping the electrics

[steveohim]

Our Hoover has started tripping the electrics, I've tried it on a different socket and changed the fuse etc but I'd doesn't make a difference, it was fine the last time I used it.
Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Impossible to answer, could be any number of reasons. Try another hoover,if nothing trips then it's your hoover at fault.

 

[steveohim]

It's definitely the Hoover I've tried it at 2 different sockets

 

[assegayer]

It's definitely the Hoover I've tried it at 2 different sockets

try it in your living room sockets then your kitchen sockets...what is it that trips the mcb or rcd?

 

[Deleted member 9648]

It's definitely the Hoover I've tried it at 2 different sockets

Buy another hoover then....actually,no...buy a Miele, vastly superior. Just don't buy one of those dreadful Dyson thingies, the biggest con in history. How that fella's managed to persuade millions of people to part with billions of pounds for a pile of junk is genius.

 

[Octopus]

Hum.... I've seen this before and the fault was in the lighting circuit (single up front RCD)

What is tripping?

 

[Simonslimline]

It's definitely the Hoover I've tried it at 2 different sockets

Are these 2 sockets on the same circuit?

 

[steveohim]

The main switchboard is tripping

 

[Octopus]

The main switchboard is tripping

The switch that is tripping - what letters and numbers are on it?

 

[Barry White]

Hmm most hoovers are class2 a photo of the trip may help

 

[Simonslimline]

The main switchboard is tripping

Do you loose more than 1 circuit when the device operates?

 

[telectrix]

buy a henry.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

The main switchboard is tripping

If it is a single RCD covering a number of circuits then as already stated a fault on another circuit may cause tripping when a load is applied to any other circuit. As I already stated try another hoover,borrow a neighbours or whatever and see if you get the same result. Given that most of todays 'hoovers' are class 11 with no earth then a fault on the appliance itself would not normally trip an RCD.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

buy a henry.

Henry's are good, or the pink version...a Henrietta,not to be seen with on site though.

 

[Pete999]

It's a dead Hoover, it's deceased no longer functional it's finished dead knackered get a new one

 

[telectrix]

dead my arse. send it here. i'll have it stripped and rebuilt in under an hour.

 

[Marvo]

I've relocated this to the DIY forum. Please stay on topic everyone, thanks.

 

[steveohim]

It turns out it not the Hoover, the kettle also trips the electric out, it seems anything with a 13amp fuse does it

 

[Octopus]

It turns out it not the Hoover, the kettle also trips the electric out, it seems anything with a 13amp fuse does it

So you have a fault on your wiring. You need a competent spark

 

[steveohim]

We have one coming round tomorrow but I can't see how it could just happen out the blue