Very dim light on all lights on all breakers

[peter le grand]

I am living in Thailand and just last night at my house, I have a little electricity on all oulets. The result is that if I switch a light on that it lights up around 5 to 10% of normal brightness. It also fluctuates. This happens on any light on any of the circuit breakers. There is one circuit breaker, that if I close that one, all other lights are suddenly fine. This breaker is for the fridge and oven. (I didn't use the oven for a while though and also not last night). I have plugged the fridge to another group temporary so at least te food stays ok.

What can te reason be for this behaviour? Do I need to replace the breaker?

What I plan to do is, unplug everything of this breaker group and switch the breaker on again. If it is still an issue, then it is somewhere the cables or the breaker. If all ok, it should be one of the equipments on this group.

Please advice.

Thanks,

Peter

 

[James]

Are the breakers double pole? I.e do they switch both the live and the neutral?

I am concerned that you might have lost the neutral coming into the property.
By closing the kitchen breaker you are giving it a false neutral through an appliance that is well earthed

 

[dmxtothemax]

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