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<blockquote data-quote="Wesley1970" data-source="post: 493227" data-attributes="member: 32419"><p>This is a question sparks have probably been asked a thousand times, but it is the first time I have asked it.</p><p></p><p>For some time now our house has been the victim of random power trips. It happens at any time of the day (morning, day, during the night), and it doesn't seem to be isolated to any individual circuit in the house. I have tried unplugging things, plugging things in etc etc, but cannot find what the cause is.</p><p></p><p>When the trips occur it is normally just the main circuit breaker that trips, rarely do any individual RCDs trip off, however, it does occasionally retrip when I switch the RCDs on individually during the reset.</p><p></p><p>I can't figure out what is causing it, and have run out of ideas of what to check. I am guessing here, that it is some kind of earth fault, but I have limited knowledge of how to go about testing for earthing faults without putting myself in the earth. I am guessing it is time to get a clever spark Sparky in to do some testing, but I am not even sure what they should be testing. Could it be a defective or outdated consumer unit? Could it be a wiring fault?</p><p></p><p>I am truly going a bit crazy trying to find the phantom trip cause.</p><p></p><p>Any advice would be apprciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wesley1970, post: 493227, member: 32419"] This is a question sparks have probably been asked a thousand times, but it is the first time I have asked it. For some time now our house has been the victim of random power trips. It happens at any time of the day (morning, day, during the night), and it doesn't seem to be isolated to any individual circuit in the house. I have tried unplugging things, plugging things in etc etc, but cannot find what the cause is. When the trips occur it is normally just the main circuit breaker that trips, rarely do any individual RCDs trip off, however, it does occasionally retrip when I switch the RCDs on individually during the reset. I can't figure out what is causing it, and have run out of ideas of what to check. I am guessing here, that it is some kind of earth fault, but I have limited knowledge of how to go about testing for earthing faults without putting myself in the earth. I am guessing it is time to get a clever spark Sparky in to do some testing, but I am not even sure what they should be testing. Could it be a defective or outdated consumer unit? Could it be a wiring fault? I am truly going a bit crazy trying to find the phantom trip cause. Any advice would be apprciated. [/QUOTE]
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