Recent content by Harry Bloomfield

Double the number of lights, double the chance of one of them failing.

There is another similar thread recently, with no conclusion found.

There you go! My muscle memory, on exit, simply drops all the breakers off, as I exit, on as I go in maybe a week later, and would then notice something was left on, and turn it off. It's much less likely I would forget something, and leave it on indoors, apart from my loft workshop, which has...

You are still causing some confusion - better to use the words 'on', 'off', and 'trip'.

I understand, they are not discarded, but are stashed, ready for use, instead of carrying them.

If they are on neighbours property, just ask them first, but out on the public road - probably not.

As a for instance - I have an habit of sometimes leaving my soldering iron or, and or hot melt glue gun. Dropping the MCB's off, obviates them being left on, and forgotten for a week.

Are you not the gardener/handyman?

Best tell them upstairs, to not have a parties, plus maybe tiptoe around carefully.

That, depends upon whether the outside lights are supplied via the socket circuit in question - do those lights still work, with the socket circuit turned off? If not, the likelihood is that they are at fault.

Then either you have missed something which is still plugged in, or perhaps something on a spur from the circuit, or there is a fault on the wiring, or at one of the actual sockets. A common one, is where a socket faceplate screw, has eventually pierced a wire, to make contact.

Things which do not need to be on, is the obvious answer.

Probably it does.... A fault L to E, or N to E can cause an RCD to trip, some sockets do isolate both L & N, but they are not common, so to be sure - unplug. Once everything is unplugged, reset the RCD, then plug things back in, one at a time, until it trips - then you have found the cause.

Capacitance, might be the reason.

I have around ten MCB's, with the few which need to remain on, at the far end from the door via which - I enter and leave, a bit of plastic shoved in between those, and all the rest, including lighting which need to be turned off when I exit the place. The bit of plastic, enable me by feel, to...