fuse blowing after cooking????
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I have encountered recently that after cooking a proper meal the main fuse of the house blows (not during cooking!!!) usually during eating a nice meal 
Want go back in unless I switch the main switch of the cooker off - 2 hours later can turn cooker back on, all fine - no blowouts???
it is never the cooker fuse either??? no smell either???
Ideas???
It is a Induction cooker, 2 years old, professionally wired in, sharing its line with a fan overn...
Want go back in unless I switch the main switch of the cooker off - 2 hours later can turn cooker back on, all fine - no blowouts???
it is never the cooker fuse either??? no smell either???
Ideas???
It is a Induction cooker, 2 years old, professionally wired in, sharing its line with a fan overn...
Is it an RCD tripping rather than an MCB? Cookers can cause nuisance tripping of RCDs and it used to be normal practice not to feed the cooker through an RCD protected circuit using a split load consumer unit. Now, the 17th Edition Regs don't really allow for non RCD protected circuits so we end up with the position you're in.
To avoid having an RCD on the circuit, the cable needs to be protected in the wall using either conduit or other metal protection.
Alternatively there could be a fault... Insulation resistance breaking down on that circuit?
To avoid having an RCD on the circuit, the cable needs to be protected in the wall using either conduit or other metal protection.
Alternatively there could be a fault... Insulation resistance breaking down on that circuit?
ndg said:
It is possible that the hob has a cooling fan for the internals which is being switched some time after cooking has finished. This might have a short inside it which is tripping the RCD/MCB?
N.
My first thoughts too, although not sure if the cooling fans operate only when the cooker is switched off??N.
In our oven the cooling fan only runs when it's required, this can sometimes be after we've turned the thing off.
It's an oven, not a hob of course, but can certainly imagine something similar. As soon as the hob has cooled down of its own accord, it can be switched back on as the cooling fans have no demand.
N.
It's an oven, not a hob of course, but can certainly imagine something similar. As soon as the hob has cooled down of its own accord, it can be switched back on as the cooling fans have no demand.
N.
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