My house had a new consumer unit fitted in 2005 it's partly fitted with RCBOs and partly with MCBs it was installed by the DNO who are SSE in this area bearing in mind the year it was installed are the rcd fitted likely to be electronic type or plain electromechanical ones I'm asking out of curiosity because if ever there's a fault in my workshop ( for this read that I make a mistake or an error when experimenting) usually the house RCD trips despite me having an electronic plug in one on my test bench supply which I think should fire first ide really appreciate your wise words on this thanks x Kelly
The make of the trips looks like it says E N there are some symbols between the letters that I can't describe although one of them looks like the castle shaped chess piece if you know what I mean the RCD and non RCD trips are all of the same make the RCD ones are rated 30 mA the consumer unit they are in is made by MEM. Also the trip that supplies my workshop also feeds a double socket which the microwave oven is plugged into there is no other load on the circuit it's rated 30mA and 16A. Curiously I noticed that the shower is on a non RCD trip is this something the DNO should of been more careful of?
The make of the trips looks like it says E N there are some symbols between the letters that I can't describe although one of them looks like the castle shaped chess piece if you know what I mean the RCD and non RCD trips are all of the same make the RCD ones are rated 30 mA the consumer unit they are in is made by MEM. Also the trip that supplies my workshop also feeds a double socket which the microwave oven is plugged into there is no other load on the circuit it's rated 30mA and 16A. Curiously I noticed that the shower is on a non RCD trip is this something the DNO should of been more careful of?
