Cooker shorting out electrics
- Thread starter oddpodd
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strong chance its the cooker.
(but possibly the supply cable, depends whether you mean switch on at cooker itself, or at the cooker isolator switch)
(but possibly the supply cable, depends whether you mean switch on at cooker itself, or at the cooker isolator switch)
Isolate the cooker via the cooker switch adjacent to the unit.
Turn the CU back on and if it doesn't trip the cooker MCB, the fault is at the cooker.
If the cooker is isolated via the cooker switch and the circuit still trips maybe Roland Rat has taken a few bites of the sheath on the cirucit cable.
Turn the CU back on and if it doesn't trip the cooker MCB, the fault is at the cooker.
If the cooker is isolated via the cooker switch and the circuit still trips maybe Roland Rat has taken a few bites of the sheath on the cirucit cable.
J
Johnmelad502
Could be one of three...
1. Cooker Fault
2. Cabe from CU to isolator damaged/faulty
3. Cable from isolator to cooker damaged/faulty.
Or could be a faulty MCB, but unlikely.
Or a faulty RCD, given that its the whole house that trips out. Never seen a whole house protected by a single MCB of equal or lower value to the cooker circuit . . .
more likely the RCCB tripping due to the element on the cooker having broken down and leaking to earth..
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