Hi
Hope somebody can steer me in the right direction...
The main switch on my board keeps tripping.
Firstly this may be the cause or a complete red herring.
A few months back I had the same tripping problem and at the time I had a leaky radiator upstairs that had soaked the carpet and had also started running slightly down the walls in the room below so I had a 2kw fan heater blowing on to the carpet to dry it out. The main switch started tripping so I assumed that was somehow the cause as whenever we plugged the heater back in it tripped. However If I remember correctly I switched off that circuit
but the main switch kept tripping so I had an electrician look at it and after some tinkering on the main board told me the neutral was very loose which could have caused the tripping after which everything ran fine.
Yesterday we noticed the same rad had started leaking again and we went through the same fan heater routine followed by the same tripping routine.
This time I simply kept resetting the trip (leaving the heater unplugged) but again the main switch kept tripping I even tried leaving various individual circuits off but couldn't establish which circuit was causing the problem.
What was happening though was that each time I reset the main switch it would take longer and longer to trip and eventually last night with all circuits running (no fan heater) everything was fine.
This morning however 6 o'clock boiler comes on 6:10 I turn on a 2kw fan heater in my kitchen (not the same heater) put the kettle on and go to the fridge to get some milk and the main switch trips.
Reset the trip, it trips out. Unplug the kettle reset the trip seems OK. Plug the kettle in it trips. Unplug the kettle reset the trip works ok. Plug kettle in to different socket main switch trips.
For a while I turn on all the light circuits but not all the mains circuits but do boil the kettle which finishes the electricity runs a while longer but then trips.
I reset it and it runs OK so I turn on all the main circuits and it's been fine now for a couple of hours.
One thing I did notice whilst at the board was that the main switch would sometimes buzz as if it was about to trip but then not.
Can anyone please shed some light on my problem or give me some guidance on how I can isolate the problem.
Also in the good old days only the circuit that was causing the issue would trip so why do boards not do that now?
Help much appreciated.
Hope somebody can steer me in the right direction...
The main switch on my board keeps tripping.
Firstly this may be the cause or a complete red herring.
A few months back I had the same tripping problem and at the time I had a leaky radiator upstairs that had soaked the carpet and had also started running slightly down the walls in the room below so I had a 2kw fan heater blowing on to the carpet to dry it out. The main switch started tripping so I assumed that was somehow the cause as whenever we plugged the heater back in it tripped. However If I remember correctly I switched off that circuit
but the main switch kept tripping so I had an electrician look at it and after some tinkering on the main board told me the neutral was very loose which could have caused the tripping after which everything ran fine.
Yesterday we noticed the same rad had started leaking again and we went through the same fan heater routine followed by the same tripping routine.
This time I simply kept resetting the trip (leaving the heater unplugged) but again the main switch kept tripping I even tried leaving various individual circuits off but couldn't establish which circuit was causing the problem.
What was happening though was that each time I reset the main switch it would take longer and longer to trip and eventually last night with all circuits running (no fan heater) everything was fine.
This morning however 6 o'clock boiler comes on 6:10 I turn on a 2kw fan heater in my kitchen (not the same heater) put the kettle on and go to the fridge to get some milk and the main switch trips.
Reset the trip, it trips out. Unplug the kettle reset the trip seems OK. Plug the kettle in it trips. Unplug the kettle reset the trip works ok. Plug kettle in to different socket main switch trips.
For a while I turn on all the light circuits but not all the mains circuits but do boil the kettle which finishes the electricity runs a while longer but then trips.
I reset it and it runs OK so I turn on all the main circuits and it's been fine now for a couple of hours.
One thing I did notice whilst at the board was that the main switch would sometimes buzz as if it was about to trip but then not.
Can anyone please shed some light on my problem or give me some guidance on how I can isolate the problem.
Also in the good old days only the circuit that was causing the issue would trip so why do boards not do that now?
Help much appreciated.