Hi all, i came home from work and was about to put tea on, so as always i preheated the oven then have a shower and get changed, when i came back down the stairs it seems the oven had lost power, the hob didn't work either, so i went to the fuseboard and right enough the breaker had tripped, the issue is however the breaker is not resetting at all, i tried turning off the oven and hob at the isolator then tried the breaker but no luck,so i took the cover of the consumer unit and removed the 6mm live cable from the top of the breaker but the mcb still wouldn't reset, i think the breaker mechanism has failed as the lever has no resistance and it just springs back to the off position.
So i am quite certain the breaker has failed, but before i order a replacement i was thinking of replacing with an rcbo as the cooker currently is not rcd protected for some reason? I am just wondering if hager sell an rcbo that will fit this consumer unit? Here is a couple pictures of my consumer unit.
and here is the isolator
as you can see this also contains a socket hence my question about an rcbo, I often use this socket for when i cut the grass as its right near the backdoor, so i reckon it would be a good idea to fit an rcbo if possible? I don't really want to be messing about altering the busbar and also the cooker cable may not have enough slack. Any help would be great.
Should the cooker circuit be on the rcd side as it has a socket? Why was it not on the rcd to begin with, are cookers prone to nuisance trips perhaps? or were the rules just different back then? This consumer unit is original to the house build around 1995 ish
Thanks.
So i am quite certain the breaker has failed, but before i order a replacement i was thinking of replacing with an rcbo as the cooker currently is not rcd protected for some reason? I am just wondering if hager sell an rcbo that will fit this consumer unit? Here is a couple pictures of my consumer unit.
and here is the isolator
as you can see this also contains a socket hence my question about an rcbo, I often use this socket for when i cut the grass as its right near the backdoor, so i reckon it would be a good idea to fit an rcbo if possible? I don't really want to be messing about altering the busbar and also the cooker cable may not have enough slack. Any help would be great.
Should the cooker circuit be on the rcd side as it has a socket? Why was it not on the rcd to begin with, are cookers prone to nuisance trips perhaps? or were the rules just different back then? This consumer unit is original to the house build around 1995 ish
Thanks.