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    Outside lighting tripping

    Hi, I have some outside lights in a garden, around 14 recessed spot lights on pathways each about 3.5 watts led and mode lighting and around 20 feston lights each about 2 watts, so overall about 69 watts This is powered from a ground floor ring socket circuit, type b 32amp, type a rcbo, then...
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    Tracing / fixing a damaged spur

    Hello, We live in a late-90s townhouse. One of the bedrooms on the top floor has 3 sockets. One of them has never worked. This never bothered us before because it was behind some immovable wardrobes but we’ve now got rid of them and I would like to put it into service. This socket is a spur...
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    1430 Ohms r2 end to end

    Why? 3 RFCs - Kitchen, Downstairs and upstairs. Downstairs r2 e2e = 1330 Ohms. (1 leg of downstairs to 1 leg of kitchen = 650 Ohms And the other 480 Ohms.) Kitchen r2 e2e =0.78 Ohms Upstairs r2 e2e = 0.67 Ohms I have ideas - kitchen rewire picked up something, somewhere in the refit. Old...
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    Rcd tripping out after new DIY circuit

    Hello. I'm new to this forum and I've recently been doing a bit of work on holiday home in Ireland and have converted an attic space. The problem is I have installed a ring circuit back to existing DB which had a spare way and 30A mcb but when I juice up the new circuit and plug anything in the...
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    Electric shower stopped whilst kettle boiling

    This morning I was using our electric shower (Triton Enrich, 8.5 kW, 6 years old) when it virtually stopped. The flow reduced abruptly to a trickle, without a change in temperature, the on-light stayed on. I switched it off immediately. I ran a cold-tap to test the water supply but it was fine...
    • chris1982
    • Thread
    • appliance electric fault electric shower fault finding voltage drop
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: Electrics UK
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    Candy cdi 1020 Dishwasher not working

    Last night I loaded the dishwasher as usual and selected the programme (p4), and then it started beeping and the lights for programme 1 and 2 were flashing. So I then tried again I turned the dishwasher off and then back on and set it to p4 and it did the same so I then turned it off again and...
    • MissLauraLou
    • Thread
    • appliances dishwasher fault finding help please not working
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Appliances
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    IDEAL MINI C24 INTERMITTENTLY ON/OFF (VIDEO)

    Hi everyone i realise this is an old thread but I have a similar issue....my combo goes on and off every few seconds....i have got 1.5 water pressure and I have already taken off the heat exchanger and cleaned it...when I set the boiler to just DHW nothing at all happens....when i set it...
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