Freezer Problem

This may be a good time to search for a new freezer.

I was hoping that wouldn't be the case. Just as well I am getting a zero % credit card.

Kevin

If it managed to blow both fuses, that's sounds like a dead short, which is more likely to be a simple electrical fault in the appliance or flex than a terminal failure. Doesn't mean it won't happen again before morning. Such a fault will have generated quite a burn/flash mark, and it might be quite visible if you have a careful look along the flex and at the back of the appliance.

I will have a look but I am a bit confused now. I was alerted to the problem when the mcb for the kitchen tripped out. This morning it dawned on me that the fridge and freezer are on unprotected circuits, not on the kitchen ring. So was it a coincidence that the MCB tripped.

Kevin

ok, the microwave tripped the mcb, now completely dead.I am puzzled why the freezer blew 2 fuses.

Kevin

I wonder if you had a large voltage surge?

Strangely enough, my bathroom fan heater died this morning with a flash and a bang, and a shower of red hot gobs of metal, a couple of which burned holes in my underpants. Fortunately, I wasn't wearing them at the moment. It tripped the 20A MCB, but didn't blow the 10A fuse in the FCU. Looking inside, it's flashed across at the point where the live and neutral are quite close at the element connections, but there's not enough left at the site to see what triggered it.

Well it always pays to check. I took the back off the micowave not expecting to be able to do anything and immediately saw a 10A fuse on a circuit board. I put a 13 amp plug fuse in its place (standing well back just in case) plugged it in and hey presto the display on the micro wave lit up. So having got a replacement 10A fuse I have saved a £160 microwave.

Kevin.