RE: [OT] RCD intermitantly trips, any advice?

["Steve Morgan" <smorgo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try isolating a few appliances using plug-in RCDs. These tend to trip first
which (a) helps isolate the fault, and (b) avoids the inconvenience of
losing the entire ring.

We had this a while ago and (guess what?) it turned out to be the iron. The
iron's been replaced, but we now always use it with an RCD of its own.

Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slashcomfort [mailto:yahoo@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04 January 2005 07:51
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] RCD intermitantly trips, any advice?
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>
>
> Hi all
>
> been in a new house for about 3 weeks now and the RCD on the
> CU (only RCD, not a split unit) has tripped twice. This of
> course doesnt help with isolating where the issue might be.
> It hasnt happened when switching anything on so nothing
> obvious. When it went last night, (according to SWMBO) she
> was ironing, only other thing going was washing machine (and
> a few other applicances that are always on like oven and MW,
> computer).
>
> Any one have any suggestions how i might isolated this? Could
> wire a few of the circuits to another CU with RCD, if the
> faulty cct was on this, would both RCD's trip or just the first one?
>
> thanks for any advice as this is going to be a pain the the butt
>
> Ade
>
> ps - no alterations have been made as of yet