Shower tripping the electrics

greenfit · 19 Jan 2011

Hi, I've got a Showerforce 1000MX shower where the hot water is supplied from the tank but the pump is electrically run.
We recently had a bit of a leak, but I've replaced the seals and this is ok. However, the shower is now tripping the electrics when the shower itself is turned off. This seems very strange and I'm guessing must be caused by some electrical wiring issue when in the off position?
So now if want a shower, I ensure that the switch in the bathroom is turned off, turn the shower on first and then turn the switch on and it works fine, until I turn the shower off.
Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Toby

holmslaw · 19 Jan 2011

greenfit · 23 Jan 2011

What you've said makes sense and got me thinking. I had an idea that if I turned on the shower, then pulled the cord to turn on the pump, and then at the end of the shower, pull the cord first before turning off the water. I tried this and it worked. Sadly when my wife had a shower and I explained what to do it tripped the RCD while she showered. I was fortunately downstairs and simply flicked the RCD on and the shower pump kicked on again. I guess this implies its amore intermittent fault? Any thoughts?

Cheers
Toby

cumbriahandyman · 23 Jan 2011

Did you have to disconect any wires to do the other work?

greenfit · 23 Jan 2011

I didn't have to disconnect any wires when I changed the seals, but i guess i could have disturbed something?

andrew1210 · 23 Jan 2011

Possible, check nothing got wet, maybe connections got a bit water, or seal is leaking again?

greenfit · 23 Jan 2011

My inital thought was something did got wet when it was leaking. I've stood in the shower with a hair dryer (water & electrics off, LOL) blowing hot air over the electric box in the hope of drying out any wet areas.

BTW thanks for your help on a sunday evening.

andrew1210 · 23 Jan 2011

maybe leave it a few day's to let it dry out, (if that's what's up) did it ever do this before hand?

PS nearly had a fit before I realised the bit in brackets

greenfit · 23 Jan 2011

Ha.
I'm certainly no expert, but I'm guessing (hoping) that these things can take a while to dry out. It seems to be getting slowly better with time, so perhaps it will cure itself over the coming weeks.
Heres hoping

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