Separate circuit direct from supply to bypass main CU

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If your main isolator is tripping then it isn't a main isolator.
Cheaper safer easier fix would be a UPS or other battery backup for the door mech.
Even cheaper fix is just go through the house & reset on those rare occasions
 
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Perhaps his main switch is an RCD (RCCB).

Although that doesn't really tie in with the original post.
 
oldbutnotdead said:
If your main isolator is tripping then it isn't a main isolator.
Cheaper safer easier fix would be a UPS or other battery backup for the door mech.
Even cheaper fix is just go through the house & reset on those rare occasions
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Already have a battery backup and no internal door to garage. Thanks though.
 
I might be wrong on the main switch tripping guys, I’m getting confused now (been a long day!). Will test the RCD in morning and see what happens.

In the meantime I’ve just found this pics on my phone. Will get a cover off pic in morning for you.

Thanks for your help.
 

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Can you do a picture of the consumer unit taken further back?

There may be a way of connecting in between the meter and the consumer unit.
 
MFRacing said:
Cool so I can take a feed from the load side of that then. Don’t even need a MCB downstream of it then? Just a cable to my garage door?
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ABSOLUTELY NOT. The only upstream protection in that case would be your main fuse ~60-100A.
 
Father-in-law had same problem, cure was a key and lock which when unlocked withdrew the pin in the mechanism allowing manual operation, and a battery back up in the door so still worked with a power cut, just like a stair lift, where motor is 24 volt DC powered from batteries. I suppose you could fit an UPS, but that would limit how long the battery would last for.
 
ericmark said:
Father-in-law had same problem, cure was a key and lock which when unlocked withdrew the pin in the mechanism allowing manual operation, and a battery back up in the door so still worked with a power cut, just like a stair lift, where motor is 24 volt DC powered from batteries. I suppose you could fit an UPS, but that would limit how long the battery would last for.
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Thanks. Got both of them.
 
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