I recently had a problem with the wiring in my house to the immersion heater. It looked as if it had melted at one point in one of the switches on the way to the immersion heater. Yet this had not blown the fuse (old fashioned fuse box)
So using a work around I connect the immersion heat to a normal plug
and used an extension lead to a plug outside the bathroom to
provide temporary hot water while I fix the wiring.
Now the strange thing. I have unwound the extension lead to stop the cable overheating but after an amount of time the safety button on the extension lead pops. Thinking there was a fault with this extension lead I swapped to another. Exactly the same problem the power goes to the immersion heater for an amount of time then the extension lead trips.
Is this a fault with the immersion heater? A problem with the extension lead not being able to supply the 13A for the immersion heater for a prolonged period?
So using a work around I connect the immersion heat to a normal plug
and used an extension lead to a plug outside the bathroom to
provide temporary hot water while I fix the wiring.
Now the strange thing. I have unwound the extension lead to stop the cable overheating but after an amount of time the safety button on the extension lead pops. Thinking there was a fault with this extension lead I swapped to another. Exactly the same problem the power goes to the immersion heater for an amount of time then the extension lead trips.
Is this a fault with the immersion heater? A problem with the extension lead not being able to supply the 13A for the immersion heater for a prolonged period?