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The guy said that to repalce a "MK RCD LN5780s 80A 30 mA" unit was £130 inclusive of fitting and VAT. Is this a good price or a rip off? Is there a better alternative that would resolve this problem?

RCD trips when neighbour mows his lawn. We have just had an electrician round to check our electrics and he can find no problems. He performed several tests of which the following were his notes/results: We estimate that the MK Sentry Consumer Unit is around about 15 years old. TNCS...

I am unable to confirm the details of his mower except that it is a "not new" hover mower. The neighbour is not the most friendly to make contact with. The main box in the house is a MK Sentry Consumer Unit LN 5780s 80A 30mA. I am unable to provide any photos at present but will work on it...

Where the supply cable enters the house there is a largish green and yellow cable going to the consumer unit and a smaller one going to the gas pipe. (Can't trace the cable to the water pipe inlet as it goes underground but would guess that the other small cable wouild go to it and there is one...

Yes it is the main RCD that trips but his lawn mower doesn't stop working. We haven't seen him use any other appliances from his garage. We are going to try our lawn mower in his socket or use his lawn mower in one of our sockets. He doesn't suffer from his supply being cut off - just...

The main trip switch on our circuit board trips whenever my next door neighbour uses his electric lawn mower. This has happened every time he has cut his grass this year. It is not that we have overloaded our system as it has happened twice when we have been away for the weekend and left only...