Recent content by Lachdog

The drawing is exactly as you have diagramed, but their is also another earth coming from earth stake( in the ground outside the house) to board

Thats what im confused about, the generator is way too small to produce the amount of amps to trip the mcb, if it was shorting wouldnt the rcd part of my  mcb/rcd combo breakers trip!? Its as if their is a load on my second power circuit somehow(when i switch the breaker on, the geni groans and...

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Here is another picture; https://s33.postimg.cc/6hls3z9e7/IMG_9903.jpg

Here is a link to the photo of the board. I should have taken a recent one this afternoon :(, the feed is coming from the generator, just imagine an active(red) wired into the top of the 63amp main switch, earth(green/yellow) wired into the small earth bar,  and a neutral(black) wired into the...

Hey guys n gals, recently wired up a switchboard for a customer ( house had already been wired up by an electrician, 3 lighting curcuits, and 2 power circuits! All on rcd/mcb breaker combo's(rcbo's) ), it is being powered by a small generator(2000watts //10amps//240volts) but when main switch...