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Melted L and N in standard 13A plug socket
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<blockquote data-quote="boltonsparky" data-source="post: 500287" data-attributes="member: 4678"><p>As suspected it's a bit of a lash up. Looks like heat from poor/loose connections, equally with flex over-tightening can damage the flex reducing its size and it's prone to getting wound up the side of the screw making a bad connection. 1.5mm flex (if it is that size) is good for 16a so you shouldn't be overloading it with just the dishwasher on there, but it's definitely not good.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully those flexes have plugs on the ends of them so they're fused down and they aren't wired directly into the hidden socket as that would be a major lash up and quite dangerous.</p><p></p><p>It wants pulling out and redoing properly, best advice would be to extend the ring (if there is still a ring) to each socket, wired in T&amp;E not flex, and you should be problem free from then on. </p><p></p><p>You've already said you won't be using it until it's sorted which is the best idea <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👍" title="Thumbs up :thumbsup:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" data-shortname=":thumbsup:" /> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="boltonsparky, post: 500287, member: 4678"] As suspected it's a bit of a lash up. Looks like heat from poor/loose connections, equally with flex over-tightening can damage the flex reducing its size and it's prone to getting wound up the side of the screw making a bad connection. 1.5mm flex (if it is that size) is good for 16a so you shouldn't be overloading it with just the dishwasher on there, but it's definitely not good. Hopefully those flexes have plugs on the ends of them so they're fused down and they aren't wired directly into the hidden socket as that would be a major lash up and quite dangerous. It wants pulling out and redoing properly, best advice would be to extend the ring (if there is still a ring) to each socket, wired in T&E not flex, and you should be problem free from then on. You've already said you won't be using it until it's sorted which is the best idea 👍 [/QUOTE]
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