Hi, hope someone can help shed some light on this....
last night at around 10:30pm, the house consumer unit (a crabtree starbreaker) central on/off switch tripped, taking the house's power supply down. After a lot of investigation and resets, it was found to be down to the boiler.
The boiler in question is an Ideal Classic NF40.
The power to everything else could be brought back up fine, however when the boiler was switched on at the wall (not on the boiler itself), it was tripping the entire consumer unit.
Now it didnt cause the fuse on the wall switch to go, and it didnt cause the individual MCB with the heating (and power sockets) to go, just the entire consumer unit to go to Off.
I tried it several times over an hour or so, then settled in for a cold night... Tried it again 7am this morning, and it still tripped. Then tried it at 10:00 after examining the header tank..and its now working fine again..heated radiators and hot water fine since, and turned it off and on a good few times.
Noticed in the night - about 4am - that there was a lot of overflow coming one of the tanks in the loft, not sure if thats related...
So, any advice? The loft would have been damn cold last night, very cold up here in north yorkshire (not the bit that lost power) last night. But not sure if frozen pipes could cause what seems more like an electrical thing?
Hoping that its not suddenly going to go wrong again tonight! All advice welcomed.
last night at around 10:30pm, the house consumer unit (a crabtree starbreaker) central on/off switch tripped, taking the house's power supply down. After a lot of investigation and resets, it was found to be down to the boiler.
The boiler in question is an Ideal Classic NF40.
The power to everything else could be brought back up fine, however when the boiler was switched on at the wall (not on the boiler itself), it was tripping the entire consumer unit.
Now it didnt cause the fuse on the wall switch to go, and it didnt cause the individual MCB with the heating (and power sockets) to go, just the entire consumer unit to go to Off.
I tried it several times over an hour or so, then settled in for a cold night... Tried it again 7am this morning, and it still tripped. Then tried it at 10:00 after examining the header tank..and its now working fine again..heated radiators and hot water fine since, and turned it off and on a good few times.
Noticed in the night - about 4am - that there was a lot of overflow coming one of the tanks in the loft, not sure if thats related...
So, any advice? The loft would have been damn cold last night, very cold up here in north yorkshire (not the bit that lost power) last night. But not sure if frozen pipes could cause what seems more like an electrical thing?
Hoping that its not suddenly going to go wrong again tonight! All advice welcomed.