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Author Anyone in the know about house electrics? rcd's?
ShEp
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15th Nov 10 at 10:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
My RCD keeps tripping.

Wont turn back on.

I have unplugged absoloutly everything in the house and it won't turn on.

I turned off the individual circuts, and it turned on, but as soon as I plug anything in it trips again.

None of the plugs in the house will work, but the lights are fine.

I have checked the wiring behind the sockets and that all seems ok,

Whats the next step?

Sparky cant come out for 4days, so I've booked him but just wondered if there was anything I could do myself.
Gary
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15th Nov 10 at 10:34   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Change the RCD?

Not hard to do really.
Gary
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15th Nov 10 at 10:36   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Actually. Could well be a dogey socket. Keep disconnecting them 1 by one and see if you can find the problem.
XE Col
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15th Nov 10 at 10:42   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Doesn't sound like a faulty socket if it trips when you plug something into any one of them, could well be a faulty RCD they sometime seem to do more harm than good lol ie going faulty, I'd start by changing that as you cant test the wiring past that I'd wait for the spark to test for earth leakage
XE Col
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15th Nov 10 at 10:44   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Oh and when it trips are you actually turning it off before on? As my dads did this last night and when it trips needs to be turned off to reset properly
ShEp
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15th Nov 10 at 11:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah Boissy

turned it all off, turned the rcd on, plugged something in, the flicked the switch and bang the rcd went off again.

How much is a new rcd?
XE Col
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15th Nov 10 at 12:15   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Would need details from it to check, is there another RCD in the board? Or just one?
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15th Nov 10 at 12:31   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
New one should cost circa 20 quid mate, will u2u my number now mate

 
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