Hi there, I hope someone can offer some advice :
At the weekend, some circuits in the house tripped, namely the downstairs sockets. Yesterday it was a bit cold up here and we put the storage heaters on overnight. We had previously turned them off (as is the norm for the summer months) but because of the poor weather we turned a couple of them on in the evening and went to bed...expecting them to be warm in the morning. Wrong! They were stone cold. I checked out the electric cupboard and saw that everything looked out.
I think the box is called a consumer unit (the make is Hager) and it has a main switch for circuits 1-6 (i.e. the storage heaters) and another identical one for circuits 7-12 (the upstairs bedrooms panel heaters and bathroom fan heater). Circuits 7-12 are working fine. I know this because everything connected to them works and when they're on, the electicity meter (we have two) is working. Circuits 1-6 are dead as a dodo. Last night after midnight, when all the things driven from circuits 7-12 were turned off and storage heaters should have been doing their thing, nothing happened and the electric meter was at a standstill.
My preliminary thoughts are that a fuse has gone in the unit, probably the one in the main switch for circuits 1-6. This switch is like a double fuse (it's twice the size of the other ones) and has Hager 100A on it.
Could someone give an opinion on the above, and how to correct it. I know that sounds obvious, but I just can't see how to get the main switch fuse out (if tha's what I need to do). Everything else in the house is working fine.
Thanks for taking the time to read what is a long post.
At the weekend, some circuits in the house tripped, namely the downstairs sockets. Yesterday it was a bit cold up here and we put the storage heaters on overnight. We had previously turned them off (as is the norm for the summer months) but because of the poor weather we turned a couple of them on in the evening and went to bed...expecting them to be warm in the morning. Wrong! They were stone cold. I checked out the electric cupboard and saw that everything looked out.
I think the box is called a consumer unit (the make is Hager) and it has a main switch for circuits 1-6 (i.e. the storage heaters) and another identical one for circuits 7-12 (the upstairs bedrooms panel heaters and bathroom fan heater). Circuits 7-12 are working fine. I know this because everything connected to them works and when they're on, the electicity meter (we have two) is working. Circuits 1-6 are dead as a dodo. Last night after midnight, when all the things driven from circuits 7-12 were turned off and storage heaters should have been doing their thing, nothing happened and the electric meter was at a standstill.
My preliminary thoughts are that a fuse has gone in the unit, probably the one in the main switch for circuits 1-6. This switch is like a double fuse (it's twice the size of the other ones) and has Hager 100A on it.
Could someone give an opinion on the above, and how to correct it. I know that sounds obvious, but I just can't see how to get the main switch fuse out (if tha's what I need to do). Everything else in the house is working fine.
Thanks for taking the time to read what is a long post.