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What's the possible fault?

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Hi everyone, I have a slight problem that hopefully someone can shed some light on. So my electric cooker fuse kept on tripping whenever I tried to turn it on using the selector switch, 

I noticed the bulb in the oven had blown, so I took it out and it started working for a few days before it started doing it again,

 I then replaced the bulb, and the oven started working again for a few days before it started tripping again. 

Ive noticed that my dishwasher doesn't switch on, and the cooker hood doesn't switch on either.

Is it possible for all 3 appliances to be connected to the same circuit as to why they aren't working, or could there be an electrical fault within the circuit.

Or could it just be the oven causing the problem. 

Any help will be much appreciated.

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    OK, so it's tripping on overcurrent - so either a major fault in the wiring somewhere (probably at the consumer unit or the grid switches or somewhere in between), or just a faulty MCB (occasionally they do fail, and not ‘latching’ when reset is a bit of a classic). Really you need someone with the appropriate test equipment both to help locate the fault(s) and to ensure that any remedy really has fixed the underlying problem(s) (sometimes faults seem to come in twos or threes - as the stress from one short-circuit occasionally seems to expose weaknesses elsewhere).

       - Andy.

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    OK, so it's tripping on overcurrent - so either a major fault in the wiring somewhere (probably at the consumer unit or the grid switches or somewhere in between), or just a faulty MCB (occasionally they do fail, and not ‘latching’ when reset is a bit of a classic). Really you need someone with the appropriate test equipment both to help locate the fault(s) and to ensure that any remedy really has fixed the underlying problem(s) (sometimes faults seem to come in twos or threes - as the stress from one short-circuit occasionally seems to expose weaknesses elsewhere).

       - Andy.

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