Hi
My daughter purchased a brand new condensing tumble dryer. She decided to use it plugged into a socket in the dining room whilst room was made for it to be fitted into her kitchen.
After using it for the second time she smelt a burning smell and immediatley turned the appliance off. She then noticed that she was unable to remove the plug from the socket. Her boyfriend managed to jemmy the plug away from the socket and noticed that the plug showed signs of charring and melting around the neutral pin also charring and damage around the hole in the socket where the neutral pin goes into (pics supplied) After telling her to isolate the electrics i called down to investigate the damage. After loosening the screws around the socket and carefully pulling the socket away from the wall i noticed that this was a spur and there was considerable charring and melting on the neutral wire (possible arcing). The socket was spurred from an adjacent socket on the other side of the wall. After loosening the screws on that socket also i slowly pulled the socket away from the wall and the three single phase connections came out of the terminal connection, they had not been tightened at all! Could this contribute to the arcing on the neutral wire on the spur?
My daughter purchased a brand new condensing tumble dryer. She decided to use it plugged into a socket in the dining room whilst room was made for it to be fitted into her kitchen.
After using it for the second time she smelt a burning smell and immediatley turned the appliance off. She then noticed that she was unable to remove the plug from the socket. Her boyfriend managed to jemmy the plug away from the socket and noticed that the plug showed signs of charring and melting around the neutral pin also charring and damage around the hole in the socket where the neutral pin goes into (pics supplied) After telling her to isolate the electrics i called down to investigate the damage. After loosening the screws around the socket and carefully pulling the socket away from the wall i noticed that this was a spur and there was considerable charring and melting on the neutral wire (possible arcing). The socket was spurred from an adjacent socket on the other side of the wall. After loosening the screws on that socket also i slowly pulled the socket away from the wall and the three single phase connections came out of the terminal connection, they had not been tightened at all! Could this contribute to the arcing on the neutral wire on the spur?