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Even better, get a rowing machine, you're sat down and it doesn't knacker you're knees.
I'm 18 stone, 5' 9" , a Virgo and trying and failing to improve myself. Still, Marconi's experiment sounds fun, I'll go find the fuses.
The real question is ... will an aeroplane be able to take off from a treadmill?The fuse is still OK? So it is earth leakage causing the RCBO to trip.
NoHas anyone ever seen Marconi and Sherlock Holmes at the same time?
I noted that the motor turns easily and all rollers, etcetera are moving freely and the belt has been lubricated.
Have you changed the brushes yet?
My hypothesis is that the motor's insulation resistance is decreasing as it warms up, most markedly when the treadmill is on load (and a significant load at that ).
As a result, the earth leakage current of the motor is increasing with time(temperature) and of course is added to the normal earth leakage of the EMI filter. I guess the motor controller is a PWM type since motor is a PM one.
It is observed that the RCBO does not trip when the treadmill is run unloaded - thus much decreased work by the motor, less Ohmic heating heat, less temperature rise, less motor earth leakage....total earth leakage does not then cause the the RCBO to trip.
When run hot or hotter than designed, a motor's insulation resistance can be expected to reduce over time.
By the by, there may be a secondary effect of high temperature causing the demagnetisation over its lifetime of the motor's permanent magnets - the result would be that a higher armature current would be required to create the same torque...thus more Ohmic heating.....
I think you are at the stage of asking a motor specialist to test out the motor.
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Guess I'll hacksaw off the earth pin if that's the boy giving trouble!
DON'T DO THAT. It is a safety feature to protect you. Anyway if you did the plug would not go into a socket. (except some MKs).
I'm thinking you need some-one local with some "Insulation resistance kit" to investigate your black dust deposits ... "Don't inhale" - it's not good for lungs.
With keen eyesight may have some tracking happening, as currents vary ,and volts spike a bit higher.
(Strange substance found in early telephone microphones)
Marconi's what to check for images - were a good start.
-If 3A fuse survived a Tripping of power incident ,doesn't look like an overload.
Do the lights ever flicker in the building with any correlation to trip event ?
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