We just had an odd fault with a breaker here. Started off with occasional tripping with intervals of several months between events. This situation of course is notoriously difficult to faultfind.
Day before yesterday it happened again, I was working in the outbuildings and had not noticed that the house power had failed, just the wall sockets, lighting was fine. I duly went to reset the breaker which was OK except that the lights started to flash on & off, the breaker then tripped again. Reset once more and shortly afterwards the entire power went off and stayed off. Checked the main board with a voltmeter, zero volts coming in from the street. Turned out to be a bad joint under the road, this took the crew all day to sort out.
So an earth leakage breaker can trip due to a fault on the line prior to it.
Thursday, March 3, 2016, 3:22:30 AM, you wrote:
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Best regards,
David Wiseman
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Posted by: David Wiseman <david@electricmusic.co.uk>
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