RichardG70
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Hi, odd one this, I live in an old house and the wiring is confusing to say the least. I keep well away as rent and not my place to fiddle with it. Has anyone experienced the following?
The house has several circuits as is split into a house and a small flat downstairs.
Yesterday, some of the house tripped - the cooker, immersion heater, and downstairs lights.
If a high drain item is switched on such as the cooker, a fan heater or immersion, the circuit trips. However, if you plug e.g. a fan heater into one of the power sockets, the other circuit trips but the circuit powering the heater (i e the sockets) is still ok and don't trip.
if you reset the trip and leave the lights on, it trips again but after a few minutes.
I'm perplexed as have never known a trip to go on another circuit like leaving the one tripping it still, able to run.
Any advice greatly appreciated of course.
Seems like a load issue but I really don't know.
Richard
The house has several circuits as is split into a house and a small flat downstairs.
Yesterday, some of the house tripped - the cooker, immersion heater, and downstairs lights.
If a high drain item is switched on such as the cooker, a fan heater or immersion, the circuit trips. However, if you plug e.g. a fan heater into one of the power sockets, the other circuit trips but the circuit powering the heater (i e the sockets) is still ok and don't trip.
if you reset the trip and leave the lights on, it trips again but after a few minutes.
I'm perplexed as have never known a trip to go on another circuit like leaving the one tripping it still, able to run.
Any advice greatly appreciated of course.
Seems like a load issue but I really don't know.
Richard