Hi there,
My knowledge on electrics and fuse boxes is a bit limited I'm afraid, I hope someone might be able to advise!
The trip switch for all the plugs in my house tripped yesterday with no obvious culprit. The appliances plugged in and in use at the time were: fridge, two televisions, a playstation and a few other (which I would have thought were) small appliances e.g. bedside lamp, telephone. Other appliances were plugged in but not in use - kettle, stereo, DVD player.
Nothing had been turned on at the time - it just went for no apparent reason.
The house was rewired about 10 years ago. It doesn't have the fuse box that I would be familiar with - the type that when a fuse blew, you could replace it with the ceramic type ones you could buy in a hardware shop.
I'm not that familiar with this kind of thing - perhaps it is an MCB? How can I tell? I've searched for pictures that might correspond to give me an idea - no joy.
After trying to troubleshoot the problem - plugging out a few appliances and trying the trip-switch again, no joy - it kept flipping back to off. I left it for about 10 minutes and tried again - everything came back on!
Can anyone advise on what the problem could be or where I could find info about my fuse box?
Apologies if this is an obvious question and thanks for reading my query!
My knowledge on electrics and fuse boxes is a bit limited I'm afraid, I hope someone might be able to advise!
The trip switch for all the plugs in my house tripped yesterday with no obvious culprit. The appliances plugged in and in use at the time were: fridge, two televisions, a playstation and a few other (which I would have thought were) small appliances e.g. bedside lamp, telephone. Other appliances were plugged in but not in use - kettle, stereo, DVD player.
Nothing had been turned on at the time - it just went for no apparent reason.
The house was rewired about 10 years ago. It doesn't have the fuse box that I would be familiar with - the type that when a fuse blew, you could replace it with the ceramic type ones you could buy in a hardware shop.
I'm not that familiar with this kind of thing - perhaps it is an MCB? How can I tell? I've searched for pictures that might correspond to give me an idea - no joy.
After trying to troubleshoot the problem - plugging out a few appliances and trying the trip-switch again, no joy - it kept flipping back to off. I left it for about 10 minutes and tried again - everything came back on!
Can anyone advise on what the problem could be or where I could find info about my fuse box?
Apologies if this is an obvious question and thanks for reading my query!