Hi all, I’ve reviewed as many forums as possible which could relate to my situation, but wanted to run through my scenario, maybe someone could shed some light. Please forgive my lack of understand in some matters, I only know what I’ve researched.
Main problem - socket circuit is tripping the boards MCB (not RCD). Have an old board looking around maybe the 80s. ONLY sockets tripping. Everything in home is on one circuit.
So, bought a house around a month ago and had intermittent trips on the sockets. I got an electrician round who tested the circuit. The things he found:
- there was a low current, but wasn’t concerned since I lived there by myself without much switched on
- there was a ‘resistance’ on the circuit. So tried to narrow it down and found it was coming from the boiler.
The electrician was sure it was the boiler causing the trips so he disconnected it from the wall and I was left without hot water for a few days.
Few days later, trips again. But this was a lot more frequent (within an hour 4 trips). During this time I disconnected everything to try to narrow down if an applicable is causing it. I got to a point where EVERYTHING was unplugged (fridge, oven, Washer, office upstairs, chargers, TV, router etc) nothing was in the circuit. Tripped again.
Electrician comes back out and suggests to move the wires from the current MCB breaker to a spare one to rule out a fault on the board. I thought this worked as I had no trips for a week. Started to relax and came home yesterday to find that it has tripped at some point throughout the day. Turned back on and 20 mins later tripped. Turned back on and was ok for about 6 hours, then tripped throughout the night.
I’m at a loss here, I’ve gotten to a point where everything has been turned off and unplugged (where I possibly can), electrician has suggested that it’s a ground fault so would need to check under floorboards, but had suggested that if he is doin that, I may as well get a rewire done.
I haven’t noticed a pattern, the time it trips seems to be very intermittent, and frequency is up and down as well. I’ve had to move back in with parents as I can’t work from home now.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Main problem - socket circuit is tripping the boards MCB (not RCD). Have an old board looking around maybe the 80s. ONLY sockets tripping. Everything in home is on one circuit.
So, bought a house around a month ago and had intermittent trips on the sockets. I got an electrician round who tested the circuit. The things he found:
- there was a low current, but wasn’t concerned since I lived there by myself without much switched on
- there was a ‘resistance’ on the circuit. So tried to narrow it down and found it was coming from the boiler.
The electrician was sure it was the boiler causing the trips so he disconnected it from the wall and I was left without hot water for a few days.
Few days later, trips again. But this was a lot more frequent (within an hour 4 trips). During this time I disconnected everything to try to narrow down if an applicable is causing it. I got to a point where EVERYTHING was unplugged (fridge, oven, Washer, office upstairs, chargers, TV, router etc) nothing was in the circuit. Tripped again.
Electrician comes back out and suggests to move the wires from the current MCB breaker to a spare one to rule out a fault on the board. I thought this worked as I had no trips for a week. Started to relax and came home yesterday to find that it has tripped at some point throughout the day. Turned back on and 20 mins later tripped. Turned back on and was ok for about 6 hours, then tripped throughout the night.
I’m at a loss here, I’ve gotten to a point where everything has been turned off and unplugged (where I possibly can), electrician has suggested that it’s a ground fault so would need to check under floorboards, but had suggested that if he is doin that, I may as well get a rewire done.
I haven’t noticed a pattern, the time it trips seems to be very intermittent, and frequency is up and down as well. I’ve had to move back in with parents as I can’t work from home now.
Anyone have any suggestions?