Hi
Here is my problem, I had a conservatory built a while ago, the electrics for this were spurred off the ring main from the living room, the electrician came off a double socket which he fitted to a switched fuse and from there into the conservatory he fitted two sockets onto a ring circuit, all good there and no problems, recently I have had an outside pool fitted, so in order to run the pump, I fitted an rcd Spur to the ring circuit in the conservatory (which I wired the supply side into the ring circuit to maintain the ring system) the load went to an outdoor (weatherproof) socket on the external wall of the conservatory, which I plug the pump into, this all seemed to work ok, but after about 20 minutes the RCD I fitted kept tripping, I unplugged the pump and tried a reset but the RCD still kept tripping, I waited a while then did a reset, which worked, so i plugged the pump back in and it ran for a while but I noticed the pump was running slower, then it tripped after a short while, I then ran the pump from an extension lead which was plugged into one of the sockets in the conservatory and it ran at the correct speed without any problems.
Can you please advise on where I have gone wrong or on what I should do.
Here is my problem, I had a conservatory built a while ago, the electrics for this were spurred off the ring main from the living room, the electrician came off a double socket which he fitted to a switched fuse and from there into the conservatory he fitted two sockets onto a ring circuit, all good there and no problems, recently I have had an outside pool fitted, so in order to run the pump, I fitted an rcd Spur to the ring circuit in the conservatory (which I wired the supply side into the ring circuit to maintain the ring system) the load went to an outdoor (weatherproof) socket on the external wall of the conservatory, which I plug the pump into, this all seemed to work ok, but after about 20 minutes the RCD I fitted kept tripping, I unplugged the pump and tried a reset but the RCD still kept tripping, I waited a while then did a reset, which worked, so i plugged the pump back in and it ran for a while but I noticed the pump was running slower, then it tripped after a short while, I then ran the pump from an extension lead which was plugged into one of the sockets in the conservatory and it ran at the correct speed without any problems.
Can you please advise on where I have gone wrong or on what I should do.