Hi All,
A mate has just rung me to see if I had any ideas why there was no power to the sockets in his house? He said none of the trips had 'tripped' and the lights and boiler were working but nothing to the sockets.
I asked him to confirm if there was any power to the upstairs cct and he said that was dead also.
It sounds like his consumer unit goes: main isolating switch, 3 mcb's (trips?) an ELCB (or whatever it's called these days) and a further group of trips.
I explained to him that it sounded like everything to the right of the ELCB was 'dead' suggesting that it had in fact tripped or had simply failed (or loose connection on the buss bar etc)
My suggestion was to trip all the switches to the right of the ELCB and see if it would then reset (he didn't think it had tripped but I said to try to trip and reset it anyway) and then try to reset the other switches one-at-a-time and see what happens?
So, any clues from the above what might be the problem here please (apart from me being out of date with the terms I mean )?
All the best ..
T i m (still running re-wirable fuses .. (not))