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Anyone know anything about electrics plz help!

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Leabee1234 · 01/11/2024 09:58

Are there any electricians on here that can help me urgently plz lol the switch in the middle won't go up at all, all my electrics have gone off apart from light switches and everytime I turn that switch up it goes back down to off. I've unplugged everything still not going back to on 😭 #helplol

Anyone know anything about electrics plz help!
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Nourishinghandcream · 01/11/2024 10:05

The middle switch is an RCD which as the arrow shows, protects the circuits to the right.
Turn those MCB's off and the RCD should then stay in the on position. If this works, turn the MCB's on one at a time to see which circuit is causing the RCD to trip.
If you can isolate the fault to a specific circuit then you can then try to establish what the actual fault is.

Please excuse any wrong terminology, trying to type & remember what my OH told me.😆

FreedomDrops · 01/11/2024 10:10

Have you made sure that the shower is switched off, usually at the pull cord or maybe by big beefy switch on the wall nearby?

Also things like washing machine might have special switches to turn them off.

OneOliveEagle · 01/11/2024 10:13

I had that switch go down when my oven became faulty and it tripped all the lights.

rainbowunicorn · 01/11/2024 10:17

You need to swith to off the MCB switches on the right then flip the one that RCD up. Then one by one put the others on to see what one is causing the trip to help.narrow it down. The RCD switch is switching everything iff on the protected circuit and won't stay on if the problem is still there.

User1253S367484 · 01/11/2024 10:25

Do what Nourishinghandcream says. When you have identified the circuit (nothing will be working on it) unplug or turn everything off that is on on it. Switch the MCB and RCCB back on and then switch everything you have switched off back on again in turn. When it trips again, you have probably found the culprit. If that doesn’t work you could have a wiring fault.

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