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Thanks everyone for your help, will let you know how I get on
Yes it has to RCD's and both of them trip when load is put onto the cooker/hob circuit
Thanks. In that case, as Spark123 has said, it sounds like a very simple wiring error in the CU that any electrician should be able to fix in a few minutes. It would obviously be best for you if it were the same electrician (who presumably would/could not charge for correcting his/her error!), but even if you had to get a different electrician (and essentially tell him/her what you believe needs to be done {move the neutral of the circuit in question to the correct neutral bar}), it should not cost you too much.Hi John, yes it has a separate socket on it, and when something is plugged into it, it trips
And after he has done it, and it all works OK, report him to Trading Standards and to whichever professional body he belongs.Sounds like a neutral in the wrong bar in the consumer unit, get the electrician back to correct it.
Mistakes happen, so I don't think that anyone would get excited about a report of that, particularly after it had been remedied satisfactorily by the perpetrator, so the only real compliant could be that the error was not detected by testing.And after he has done it, and it all works OK, report him to Trading Standards and to whichever professional body he belongs.
No it isn't.everything is wired up as it should
Mistakes are not supposed to go undetected before they bite. That's why we have tests, checklists etc. And a regulation requiring the work to be competently done, which this was not.Mistakes happen, so I don't think that anyone would get excited about a report of that, particularly after it had been remedied satisfactorily by the perpetrator, so the only real compliant could be that the error was not detected by testing.
Yes. Definitely. I can only assume he's not noticed the U shaped copper link linking the two neutral bars. That being said, there's no link between the middle and right bar so he would have been connecting them to nothing.Here you go
Would the green circles cause the trip
Yes.Would the green circles cause the trip
There's 3 squeezed into two terminals on the far left
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