I have a hotpoint wdl540 washer dryer was going for about 5 minutes and has tripped the electrics so tried a different socket started again started filling with water and drum started to rotate and tripped the electrics again, any ideas would be helpful
Washer/dryer tripping electrics
- Thread starter Eagle75
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If you mean the RCD then you are probably loosing supply to the whole house rather than just the sockets. If that is the case then you have a leakage to earth from one or more of the machines components. The most common one is the water heating element & you can prove this by disconnecting & insulating the wires & see if it still trips. If not you may need to try other components, obviously it will not go through a cycle but it should not cause the RCD to trip.
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