elcb tripping

jsd1004

My elcb keeps tripping intermittently. I suspect it is a fault in my garage. I presume i can install another elcb on the feed to the garage to see if this confirms a fault?

2011

jsd1004 wrote: »

My elcb keeps tripping intermittently. I suspect it is a fault in my garage. I presume i can install another elcb on the feed to the garage to see if this confirms a fault?

Yes, you could move the garage to its own ELCB (they are generally referred to as RCDs now). This would be a common way to find such a fault.

BrianDug

Go into your garage and unplug a number of appliances from their sockets, if one of these appliances is faulty it will trip your elcb.

If the elcb is tripping intermittently and you are not plugging in/turn on equipment in the garage it may be a case that there has been an ingress of water somewhere. Have you any lights outside the garage? Possible that someone has connected the light to the elcb circuit and the light is now taking in water.

Other possibility is, have you changed any circuit wiring lately within the distribution board or house?

jsd1004

BrianDug wrote: »

Go into your garage and unplug a number of appliances from their sockets, if one of these appliances is faulty it will trip your elcb.

If the elcb is tripping intermittently and you are not plugging in/turn on equipment in the garage it may be a case that there has been an ingress of water somewhere. Have you any lights outside the garage? Possible that someone has connected the light to the elcb circuit and the light is now taking in water.

Other possibility is, have you changed any circuit wiring lately within the distribution board or house?

No no change of wiring. I swopped out the elcb in case it was faulty so have a spare which i will put to the garage circuit and hopefully that works.

DublinDilbert

You might not have the space for the rcd and mcb required for the garage, in that case fit a combined rcbo, which is the two in the one package.