This is just something I'm doing in the garage, having a play with at the moment. It sort of has to do with household electrics.
I've got a 13A plug connected to an RCBO (Pro Elec 16A), which in turn is connected to a 13A socket. I wanted to see what happens when you connect an indicator lamp across the live and neutral of the RCBO (so you can see whether the RCBO is on or off). I've used one of these 230V LED lamps connected across the RCBO outputs.
The whole 2.3mA current appears on the earth. (Measured via a multimeter connected in series on the earth - obviously would never be done anywhere but my garage as it's very much against EAWR).
Is that expected behaviour? Is it something to do with the functional earth, because obviously if this is disconnected, the current doesn't appear on the earth.
I've got a 13A plug connected to an RCBO (Pro Elec 16A), which in turn is connected to a 13A socket. I wanted to see what happens when you connect an indicator lamp across the live and neutral of the RCBO (so you can see whether the RCBO is on or off). I've used one of these 230V LED lamps connected across the RCBO outputs.
The whole 2.3mA current appears on the earth. (Measured via a multimeter connected in series on the earth - obviously would never be done anywhere but my garage as it's very much against EAWR).
Is that expected behaviour? Is it something to do with the functional earth, because obviously if this is disconnected, the current doesn't appear on the earth.