har_de_har
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I've got a problem which is confusing my limited grasp of home electrics!
Recently my dishwasher started cutting out (all its lights going off) a few minutes into the cycle, unless I did a cold water rinse. I assumed it was the dishwasher and replaced it (with a spare I handily had lying around...). However, this other dishwasher has the same problem! After it has been switched off, the dishwasher won't turn back on for between a few minutes and a few hours.
I have a plug socket behind my dishwasher, which seems to cause this problem. Plugging the dishwasher in to a different socket stops the problem. Trying a phone charger in the problematic socket after it has cut out shows a charging icon very briefly (~1 second) but then it stops charging.
The socket in question has a switch on it, but there is also a fused switch in an accessible location (ie not behind the dishwasher) which seems to provide power to the dishwasher socket. Is there such as a thing as an overload-detecting socket which could be incorrectly cutting power? Could this be a fuse problem? I assumed that fuses and RCDs just blew/tripped when something broke and then you had to manually reset them, rather than just waiting for a while.
Any help much appreciated!
Recently my dishwasher started cutting out (all its lights going off) a few minutes into the cycle, unless I did a cold water rinse. I assumed it was the dishwasher and replaced it (with a spare I handily had lying around...). However, this other dishwasher has the same problem! After it has been switched off, the dishwasher won't turn back on for between a few minutes and a few hours.
I have a plug socket behind my dishwasher, which seems to cause this problem. Plugging the dishwasher in to a different socket stops the problem. Trying a phone charger in the problematic socket after it has cut out shows a charging icon very briefly (~1 second) but then it stops charging.
The socket in question has a switch on it, but there is also a fused switch in an accessible location (ie not behind the dishwasher) which seems to provide power to the dishwasher socket. Is there such as a thing as an overload-detecting socket which could be incorrectly cutting power? Could this be a fuse problem? I assumed that fuses and RCDs just blew/tripped when something broke and then you had to manually reset them, rather than just waiting for a while.
Any help much appreciated!