RCD question.
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parallel paths.
The rest of the install is still using neutral, and your neutral is not isolated from the "common" neutral. So when you touch neutral and earth, some current flows back from the common neutral and down the earth. The creates an imbalance and snap!
The rest of the install is still using neutral, and your neutral is not isolated from the "common" neutral. So when you touch neutral and earth, some current flows back from the common neutral and down the earth. The creates an imbalance and snap!
Inbalance caused by the common neutral
edit - what steve said ^^^
edit - what steve said ^^^
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If there were no current flowing in the rest of the install, the RCD would not trip.
The question asked yesterday and discussed at length
http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=218709
http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=218709
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