outside socket

niknaks · 30 Oct 2010

Hello......some advice would be most appreciated...I have an outside double plug socket which is attached to a large white rcd which has broken...my helpful neighbour cut the plug off and replaced it with an old plug from a hand held mixer and simply swapped the fuses from the rcd and the said mixer...my teenage son says this is highly dangerous....is it??
Thanks

ricicle · 30 Oct 2010

Ideally the socket itself should be 30mA RCD protected. If not as might be the case in an older installation then your appliances should have the protection with the use of an plugtop style or in-line RCD.
You increase your risk of a dangerous electric shock using appliances outdoors without one if a fault occurs. What your neighbour has done is irresponsible and has no business doing this type of work.

wingcoax · 30 Oct 2010

He says the neighbour replaced the fuse in the RCD, WHAT FUSE? they don't have fuses.

niknaks · 30 Oct 2010

hmm maybe I have got this even more wrong than I thought....some time ago I bought an outside double socket which is a waterproof box attached to it was a cable and on the end a large white plug witha 13 amp fuse and a reset button which was green. The plug part plugs into the house socket and then the cable goes to the outside socket giving it power (through the wall)....I assumed it was an rcd clearly not.... its this white plug which has been replaced with a mixer plug??

ban-all-sheds · 30 Oct 2010

wingcoax said:
He says the neighbour replaced the fuse in the RCD, WHAT FUSE? they don't have fuses.

They do if they are like this:

ban-all-sheds · 30 Oct 2010

niknaks said:
hmm maybe I have got this even more wrong than I thought....some time ago I bought an outside double socket which is a waterproof box attached to it was a cable and on the end a large white plug witha 13 amp fuse and a reset button which was green. The plug part plugs into the house socket and then the cable goes to the outside socket giving it power (through the wall)....

Did you apply for Building Regulations approval?

I assumed it was an rcd clearly not.... its this white plug which has been replaced with a mixer plug??

It is an RCD plug, and what your neighbour did is quite safe as long as the socket in the house is RCD protected (at 30mA) or, if it isn't, as long as you disconnect and don't use the outside socket any more.

wingcoax · 30 Oct 2010

The op should have said exactly what he had. On the information given the comment was vald.

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