Mini circuit breaker

[pleasehelp]

Recently i plugged my lap top into a socket that usually has a ceiling light that has a fan. It cut the house out and i can not get the power back to that room, it cuts the whole house. I have tried changing the socket. Can you replace these mcb? Thanks

 

[JohnD]

do you mean all the sockets in the house have lost power? Or all the lights in the house? Or both? Does your cooker now work?

Please describe your consumer unit (fusebox) and what you see inside it. if you post some photos that will help.

 

[ColJack]

why exactly did you plug your laptop into what one must assume is a ceiling mounted socket?

you may have tripped the RCD..

although, I would have thought that the light and fan would draw more current than a laptop power supply..

 

[Adam_151]

although, I would have thought that the light and fan would draw more current than a laptop power supply..

The inrush to a SMPS could be reasonably high in magnitude, its quite probable that it would cause a 6A b-curve breaker to operate

 

[Mud Hut]

Agreed Adam. In my business we supply all transformers and SMPS with D-curve breakers.

 

[ColJack]

it's a laptop power supply for crying out loud..

mine takes 2 amps but that's for a fairly top end laptop with a decent graphics card that takes a fair bit to power..

 

[JohnD]

do you mean all the sockets in the house have lost power? Or all the lights in the house? Or both? Does your cooker now work?

Please describe your consumer unit (fusebox) and what you see inside it. if you post some photos that will help.

No answer then?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

No answer then?

No - he can't - the battery in his laptop has gone flat...

 

[daytona]

laptop giving a high voltage to earth?

 

[mdbalson]

it's a laptop power supply for crying out loud..

mine takes 2 amps but that's for a fairly top end laptop with a decent graphics card that takes a fair bit to power..

what coljack says is right laptop power supply are low amperage, my laptop & my mum's laptop power supplies are only 1.5Amps each.

 

[Spark123]

The one for my laptop takes a few amps to get it going, it is more noticable when firing it up in the car on an inverter - seems to take a while to initially get it going without the laptop plugged into it.

 

[mdbalson]

laptop giving a high voltage to earth?

Not all laptop power supplies have an earth connection

 

[JohnD]

Well it doesn't look like pleasehelp is ever going to come back and give us any more information, so we're just guessing blindly.

My own thought was that it was the RCD that tripped, but he says MCB.

 

[ricicle]

it's a laptop power supply for crying out loud..

mine takes 2 amps but that's for a fairly top end laptop with a decent graphics card that takes a fair bit to power..

what coljack says is right laptop power supply are low amperage, my laptop & my mum's laptop power supplies are only 1.5Amps each.

If you look at the post it was talking about inrush current not operating current