This seems a bit of a strange one to me - but here goes….
My wife told me this morning that when I was out last night she got an electric shock from her iron and the RCBO tripped. It turned out that the shock was from the (metal) double socket when she switched the socket off. Today I’ve plugged the iron in to the same socket and can’t replicate this and the iron is still working.
Any ideas what is likely to have happened? Circuitwise everything is fairly new - five year old kitchen extension all new electrics certified etc. with no problems during that five year period, so I’m assuming wiring is going to be OK. Can socket switches breakdown to give a (transient) fault like this and would there be a very brief period in which a shock could be experienced before the current goes to earth and/or trips the RCBO? Clearly what she experienced wasn’t too dramatic.
I’ll take the faceplate off to try to find the make and order a matching new one - anything I should look for to give clues as to what happened?
My wife told me this morning that when I was out last night she got an electric shock from her iron and the RCBO tripped. It turned out that the shock was from the (metal) double socket when she switched the socket off. Today I’ve plugged the iron in to the same socket and can’t replicate this and the iron is still working.
Any ideas what is likely to have happened? Circuitwise everything is fairly new - five year old kitchen extension all new electrics certified etc. with no problems during that five year period, so I’m assuming wiring is going to be OK. Can socket switches breakdown to give a (transient) fault like this and would there be a very brief period in which a shock could be experienced before the current goes to earth and/or trips the RCBO? Clearly what she experienced wasn’t too dramatic.
I’ll take the faceplate off to try to find the make and order a matching new one - anything I should look for to give clues as to what happened?