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Hi there I could split the spur legs just now and put another spur into the ring to control the appliances seperately.

Good evening all I have just been to a job to look at connecting a hand dryer @2.1KW and a small convector heater @500watt the problem is that the tiles and cables have all been done and it is finished ready for connecting, But their is a spur within the ring and 2 supply cables coming from the...

Thanks for the quick reply but I have taken the circuit out of play and evrything ok, but on your thinking if this was a split ring across the both sides of the rcd would the circuit not still be live when i have disconnected it from one side ? I have tested with the circuit disconnected and all...

Hi all I have had a problem reported today about sockets in a property tripping the rcd. Heres what has happened, the property has had some of the wiring upgraded and a new split rcd fuse board installed. Tests show that the existing wiring was ok to be used and only lighting and a few new...

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Think you need to get a tester and do some checks. L+N to earth to see if the insulation resistance is ok. Could be that the shower have got water within it and causing you a problem? Why did you change the mcb to an rcbo? did you do work?

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hiya jimg i had the same problem last week rcd tripping when load put through but holding when nothing plugged in. tested ring and indicated a short between live and earth so split ring down as you do and got to one socket where there was a tiny nick in the neutral cable and it was touching the...

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Thanks for your help, I went and had a look at the cooker and it is indeed only 6.5kw in total for the 2 ovens and the grill. So looks like you are right with the total load being 14.5kw with the gas included. Guinness

Hi all just been to my cousins house to help with his new kitchen, some extra sockets ect. First find was 32amp breaker for kitchen ring which was not a ring but a radial with 5 sockets on it and a spur form a spur also ( so a good start to the night ). Sorted the sockets then looked at his...

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its good night time as steptoe is starting to act like his avatar, and giving me some of hercules's offloads:z:z

I agree with the above just bung it on the lighting circuit:|

if steptoe reads the post i have said that i tried to do ramp test but it just tripped the faulty rcd right away. and as the client was reluctent to get the fixed appliances removed from the circuits no ir test were conducted until a more suitable time and it has been done so far free of charge...

did do basic tests and one of them as posted before was a ramp test and it was tripping the rcd right away and also tripping at half test which indicates that the rcd is not functioning properly. that was half test with no ;load on the rcd side of the board and it was tripping at half which is a...

not yet hope to be back at the property tommorrow to start disconnecting and doing some IR testing.