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
Tomgunn the reason for my getting the 10mA RCD socket was because the house has RCBOs for all the downstairs socket outlet circuits BUT my little shack is right at the top of the garden around 60 feet from the house so if I trip the breaker in the house it's a walk down to reset it. Since I now am finding walking difficult it makes sense to try to avoide that happening
Tomgunn the reason for my getting the 10mA RCD socket was because the house has RCBOs for all the downstairs socket outlet circuits BUT my little shack is right at the top of the garden around 60 feet from the house so if I trip the breaker in the house it's a walk down to reset it. Since I now am finding walking difficult it makes sense to try to avoide that happening
