Hi there,
This is my first post... any help much appreciated!
I have a Potterton Combi 80 Boiler that trips out the house electrics.
The flat has 2 mains circuits, one for the lights and one for the plug sockets including the switch the boiler is attached to.
About a month ago, the plug socket circuit trip switch flicked to off. The electricity switch box has no fuses, just trip switches. To isolate the problem device I tuyrned everything off at the sockets, TVs, kettle, dishwasher, washing machine etc. including the boiler.
I then set about turning everything back on one by one. This isolated the problem to the switch attached to the boiler. Whenever this is turned back on the trip switch goes again.
I had an engineer come out to look at this after spending a couple of days at my girlfriends flat but when he came out, it just worked again. He visually checked the PCB and saw no problems so we just left it at that.
Since then, it has happened a couple more times. The first time, just leaving the boiler powered off at the switch for a couple of hours then turning it back on seemed to work. The second time (yesterday) it won't turn back on without tripping the mains circuit.
To my understanding, this would most likely be one of the electrical components (PCB, pump, fan) but can anyone advise how I can check which it may be before ordering a part?
Any other advice gratefully recieved!
Thanks,
Frosty
This is my first post... any help much appreciated!
I have a Potterton Combi 80 Boiler that trips out the house electrics.
The flat has 2 mains circuits, one for the lights and one for the plug sockets including the switch the boiler is attached to.
About a month ago, the plug socket circuit trip switch flicked to off. The electricity switch box has no fuses, just trip switches. To isolate the problem device I tuyrned everything off at the sockets, TVs, kettle, dishwasher, washing machine etc. including the boiler.
I then set about turning everything back on one by one. This isolated the problem to the switch attached to the boiler. Whenever this is turned back on the trip switch goes again.
I had an engineer come out to look at this after spending a couple of days at my girlfriends flat but when he came out, it just worked again. He visually checked the PCB and saw no problems so we just left it at that.
Since then, it has happened a couple more times. The first time, just leaving the boiler powered off at the switch for a couple of hours then turning it back on seemed to work. The second time (yesterday) it won't turn back on without tripping the mains circuit.
To my understanding, this would most likely be one of the electrical components (PCB, pump, fan) but can anyone advise how I can check which it may be before ordering a part?
Any other advice gratefully recieved!
Thanks,
Frosty