shower tripping
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Earth fault on the shower? (excuse my ignorance if i'm wrong but it would be what I'd check in that case)
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have you got the same problem?DarkInferno said:
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is this a split load board - by the sound of it, it is and from what i gather you are swapping the red core of the cable between an mcb on the rcd protected and the non-rcd side to test it, if so then the problem lies with the neutral core from the shower cable terminated into the wrong neutral bar in the consumer unit - in split load boards you have two neutral bars - one for rcd protected circuits, one for the other circuits.
Make sure you have the neutral core in the rcd protected neutral bar when you connect the red to an rcd-protected mcb. If you dont get the neutral right you get an inbalance on the rcd and it trips out when the cable is under load.
Make sure you have the neutral core in the rcd protected neutral bar when you connect the red to an rcd-protected mcb. If you dont get the neutral right you get an inbalance on the rcd and it trips out when the cable is under load.
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