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Power bank blowing fuses?

Lisa Miles
Hi all


I have a question I hope some of you might know the answer to.


We've recently moved over from a builders electricity supply to a domestic supply on our new build house in France. The electrics have all been checked out and signed off by the Consuel.


I have a two port USB powerbank manufactured by a well known battery manufacturer (?) and I was trying to charge it up while I was there using a native two pin USB charger plug. It basically fried the charger plug but didn't trip the fuse on the main board... 


I then plugged it in to a four socket extension lead (two pin plug to three pin sockets) using a three pin charger plug I have. It blew the extension lead but again didn't trip the fuse on the main board. 


At first I thought it must be a fault with the powerbank but  when I got back to the UK, I plugged it into my usual charger and it charged up as normal... ??


What do you think the problem could be? 

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    Thanks Andy.


    Apologies if my terminology is causing confusion! French appliance plugs are usually round and have two pins sticking out and a hole to accept the earth pin that is located in the wall socket itself. However some plugs are just two pins on a flat style plug! 


    Yes the monitors were my computer monitors also plugged into the UK extension lead and came on when I switched the circuit for the sockets in the study on. Then went out again when I plugged in the powerbank to charge it as the extension lead broke.


    Potential - No I hadn't tried to charge up the powerbank using the builders supply as I only bought it a couple of months ago and hadn't yet been to France in order to use it there. However, I did take the powerbank to Greece with me in May and charged it up successfully via a friends multi-connector charger lead plugged into a Samsung USB charger plug plugged into a 'UK to European' travel adapter, plugged into a four socket European extension cable which was plugged into a European socket... ? That worked just fine albeit a bit slow to charge to full...


    Incidentally, the fridge part of our fridge freezer broke while we were there too. Working fine for a day then the compressor stopped working which resulted in the fridge not getting down to the right temperature. We just put that down to the age of the fridge/freezer (about 10 years old now) and the fact that it had been switched off for about 5 months... So not sure if that is related at all!


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    Thanks Andy.


    Apologies if my terminology is causing confusion! French appliance plugs are usually round and have two pins sticking out and a hole to accept the earth pin that is located in the wall socket itself. However some plugs are just two pins on a flat style plug! 


    Yes the monitors were my computer monitors also plugged into the UK extension lead and came on when I switched the circuit for the sockets in the study on. Then went out again when I plugged in the powerbank to charge it as the extension lead broke.


    Potential - No I hadn't tried to charge up the powerbank using the builders supply as I only bought it a couple of months ago and hadn't yet been to France in order to use it there. However, I did take the powerbank to Greece with me in May and charged it up successfully via a friends multi-connector charger lead plugged into a Samsung USB charger plug plugged into a 'UK to European' travel adapter, plugged into a four socket European extension cable which was plugged into a European socket... ? That worked just fine albeit a bit slow to charge to full...


    Incidentally, the fridge part of our fridge freezer broke while we were there too. Working fine for a day then the compressor stopped working which resulted in the fridge not getting down to the right temperature. We just put that down to the age of the fridge/freezer (about 10 years old now) and the fact that it had been switched off for about 5 months... So not sure if that is related at all!


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