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Now then, oh beautiful people who know more about electricity than me.
Here's my problem.
The mains for the down stairs sockets is tripping the mains earth trip. The consumer unit isn't tripping. On the dwnsocks ring (which has tripped a million times in it's life) there are 5 double outlets. One of which powers both 13A hob and 13A oven. The bloke who wired them said this was fine and he had all sorts of qualifications so I believed him, with sceptism. One of the hob rings cause a trip (on the mains again) last week (to the very bleeding day) and we isolated which ring was causing it, removing the hob knob so we didn't turn it on. We think some water got in cause I didn't seal it proppa.
Here's what I think happened.
The trip switch (I don't know what rating it is) is very old and has basically past it's life...do they do this? I don't know? I think when the hob tripped it last week it pushed it past the brink where it was clinging on for dear life. See the thing is, this happened when both me and brooks were asleep, and the only thing the cats may have done (I've check possibilities) is wee on a junction box, but I don't think they have. I think the trip switch has just died.
Here's what action I think should be taken.
Replace the trip switch with one of high enough rating that it can accept the load placed upon it.
What I need to know before I get some bloke in to fix it, is does this scenario make sense?!
I've been told that hob n oven should be on a separate circuit, so this I'll take action for...but in the mean time do I just have to accept I've no downstairs power till I win the lottery?!
Here's my problem.
The mains for the down stairs sockets is tripping the mains earth trip. The consumer unit isn't tripping. On the dwnsocks ring (which has tripped a million times in it's life) there are 5 double outlets. One of which powers both 13A hob and 13A oven. The bloke who wired them said this was fine and he had all sorts of qualifications so I believed him, with sceptism. One of the hob rings cause a trip (on the mains again) last week (to the very bleeding day) and we isolated which ring was causing it, removing the hob knob so we didn't turn it on. We think some water got in cause I didn't seal it proppa.
Here's what I think happened.
The trip switch (I don't know what rating it is) is very old and has basically past it's life...do they do this? I don't know? I think when the hob tripped it last week it pushed it past the brink where it was clinging on for dear life. See the thing is, this happened when both me and brooks were asleep, and the only thing the cats may have done (I've check possibilities) is wee on a junction box, but I don't think they have. I think the trip switch has just died.
Here's what action I think should be taken.
Replace the trip switch with one of high enough rating that it can accept the load placed upon it.
What I need to know before I get some bloke in to fix it, is does this scenario make sense?!
I've been told that hob n oven should be on a separate circuit, so this I'll take action for...but in the mean time do I just have to accept I've no downstairs power till I win the lottery?!