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
Thanks for the info Chris il be able( hopefully) to look up the details of my breakers on the inter web now I know what breed they are! Also Sparkingchip I've just ordered one of the 10mA RCD sockets should be here in a day or 3 OMG I've just spent £50 what am I doing!!!!
Look on the bright side, you may be able to use it as a designated socket for testing your loop tester and maybe your RCD tester as well if there is any sort of discrimination between it and the upfront RCD in the CU.
Thanks for the info Chris il be able( hopefully) to look up the details of my breakers on the inter web now I know what breed they are! Also Sparkingchip I've just ordered one of the 10mA RCD sockets should be here in a day or 3 OMG I've just spent £50 what am I doing!!!!
Look on the bright side, you may be able to use it as a designated socket for testing your loop tester and maybe your RCD tester as well if there is any sort of discrimination between it and the upfront RCD in the CU.
