Electric cooker tripping electrics

[cliffG]

Hi I have an electric cooker that seems to be tripping my electrics, Looking on youtube it states this could be an element. I have removed the main oven element and it had continuity so assume it is fine? Also the same on the top oven and again all seems fine, I did notice a loose Neutral wire so have tightened this. Put everything back and no good still trips immediately has anyone any ideas. It is a really rubbish cooker and would replace if i could but will need to fix if i can.

Thanks hope someone can offer advice on a fix.
Cliff

 

[securespark]

A continuity test on the element will not prove a short circuit, which is what you may have, by the sound of it.

How is your cooker attached to the supply? Via plug & socket or hard-wired through a switch?

Isolate it and reset the power. Does it stay on?

 

[DetlefSchmitz]

Exactly what kind of device is tripping?

 

[cliffG]

Hi its hard wired into the cooker switch, the fuse board/ consumer unit is tripping everything. I have isolated the supply reset the cooker and tried it again tripped straight away

 

[EFLImpudence]

No - it is something IN the consumer unit that is tripping.

It sounds like an RCD so you need to test your elements to make sure there is NO continuity between the terminals and the body of it.

 

[cliffG]

Hi my fuse box is the old cartridge type not RCD's would that make a difference.

 

[JohnW2]

...the fuse board/ consumer unit is tripping everything.

Hi my fuse box is the old cartridge type not RCD's would that make a difference.

What do you mean by 'tripping everything'? What exactly is tripping (i.e. what do you have to reset after the trip occurs)?

Kind Regards, John

 

[cliffG]

John, My fuse box is the old cartridge type and so not just one thing trips when the cooker fuse is in and i switch the electrics on it will trip the complete system.
this has happened about 5 times today while i have been tracking down what was at fault. Now i have worked out it's the electric cooker this cartridge fuse is out of the unit all is fine obviously apart from no cooked food tonight.

 

[JohnW2]

John, My fuse box is the old cartridge type and so not just one thing trips when the cooker fuse is in and i switch the electrics on it will trip the complete system.

As I asked, what is 'tripping'? (your cartridge fuses obviously don't trip).

Kind Regards, John

 

[cliffG]

Well the complete system or the main fuse/ switch trips or switches off due to the cooker.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Does the device which trips have the letters RCD? Or a button marked Test?

 

[cliffG]

No it's a fuse, Sorry maybe i am not explaining correctly. I know what an RCD looks like and I dont have them. So to explain if all my fuses were in place and i turned on the electrics the main switch would trip and everything would go off. opening the fuse holder for each section e.g. upstairs ring, downstairs lights, cooker etc I have managed to work out what circuit is causing the issue and that's the cooker. hope that has explained it, please put me right if I have explained it incorrectly.
Thanks

 

[ban-all-sheds]

No it's a fuse, Sorry maybe i am not explaining correctly. I know what an RCD looks like and I dont have them. So to explain if all my fuses were in place and i turned on the electrics the main switch would trip and everything would go off.

So which is it?

A fuse or a switch?

How about a photo?

 

[cliffG]

Sorry it's both the electrics have one main switch that turns off all electrics, the fuse board is made up of about 10 fuses different sizes. Please see photos

 

[EFLImpudence]

That thing in the first picture is an RCD,