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Ninehigh - 5/1/11 at 10:53 PM

Not mine, nor do I have access to it, but "wen i turn it on it trips ot my electric,or does it halfway thru a cycle?"

Which I thought was odd, shouldn't it blow the fuse first?
Any ideas what it could be, because this is tickling my curious bone now

cliftyhanger - 5/1/11 at 10:59 PM

Tripping means an earth fault I suspect, possibly the heater element? or motor, or........
Won't blow the fuse as the current may not exceed 13A, but a few milliamps leaking to earth will flick the trip.

Daddylonglegs - 5/1/11 at 11:04 PM

Trip should go before the fuse, that's the idea of them. They don't need much 'over current' before they trip.

As to what it is, could be several thngs, but best to try making sure everything is off where possible except the machine then see if it still does it. If it does then at least you know it's the machine rather than just the machine just pushing the trip over the limit.

Hope that makes sense?

I'm sure an electrician type will be along soon

austin man - 5/1/11 at 11:24 PM

posted on 5/1/11 at 10:53 PM
Not mine, nor do I have access to it, but "wen i turn it on it trips ot my electric,or does it halfway thru a cycle?"


how can it trip your electric if the above statement is true ?? lol

Ninehigh - 6/1/11 at 12:03 AM

That's the quote from the person who owns and has access to said machine...

MakeEverything - 6/1/11 at 12:38 AM

Depends if the "Trip" is an RCD or not.

A 13A fuse wont blow before a 30mA RCD which will trip in 40ms in the event of a neutral earth fault.

BenB - 6/1/11 at 09:53 AM

quote:
Originally posted by cliftyhanger
Tripping means an earth fault I suspect, possibly the heater element? or motor, or........
Won't blow the fuse as the current may not exceed 13A, but a few milliamps leaking to earth will flick the trip.


I'd put money on it being the heater element because my old one used to do it IE element would break and cause an earth fault tripping the RCD on the consumer unit.

Ninehigh - 6/1/11 at 08:16 PM

Thanks everyone, I shall tell her what's been said and see if I can save her a couple hundred quid

rusty nuts - 6/1/11 at 08:29 PM

I once had a steam cleaner that did that, after taking it to a "steam cleaner specialist" they decided there was nothing wrong with it, I took it back to my workshop and it did the same again so I rewired the motor directly to an extension lead and retried with the same result . On taking the motor to pieces I found it was full of water!