I'd like some understanding of circuit breakers before calling in an electrician.
Following a failure of external lights, I lost power to my garage. The consumer unit in the house has the CB tripped and the fuse of the lighting circuit blew. The power goes in to an electric box in the garage which has mains and lighting circuit fuses. I have disconnected the exterior lights and flicked the power to off in the garage. However the CB in the consumer unit
will not switch to the on. The circuit breaker has a smaller yellow button - a test button I think indicating a GFI.
I'm assuming that as I can't reset the CB it indicates a problem in the wiring to the garage - is there any way of testing this or locating the problem ?
Following a failure of external lights, I lost power to my garage. The consumer unit in the house has the CB tripped and the fuse of the lighting circuit blew. The power goes in to an electric box in the garage which has mains and lighting circuit fuses. I have disconnected the exterior lights and flicked the power to off in the garage. However the CB in the consumer unit
will not switch to the on. The circuit breaker has a smaller yellow button - a test button I think indicating a GFI.
I'm assuming that as I can't reset the CB it indicates a problem in the wiring to the garage - is there any way of testing this or locating the problem ?