Power Supply Mystery

Yup... most of the circuits are fused (cartridge fuse in a fuse carrier).

The two wide modules are older style RCBOs that combine a 32A MCB and a RCD with a 30mA current imbalance trip.

That is quite a good setup since you get one RCD per socket circuit (and no RCD protection on any of the other circuits - but then again you are far less likely to get a shock from anything on one of the other circuits anyway).

Some modern RCBOs leave the leaver in a different position when they trip from the RCD side than if they trip on the MCB side. Yours probably don't have that feature, so other than knowing it has tripped, you can't tell what caused it from just looking at it.

Chances are in the circumstances you describe it was a RCD related trip.

For info the electricity company is still working on this and has started to dig up the road. They have cordoned off a chunk of the pavement as well.

To finalise this I just received a £95 cheque as compensation for the outage!

And I can do sweet FA with it, I have no paying in slips and my 'phone camera cannot take a good enough picture for the bank.

I’d experiment with lighting. I mean, the degraded image that my phone banking app generates is way below the resolution of my phone’s camera so you may find that better lighting helps.

Tim

I paid a cheque in at my local Post Office using just the account number and sort code.

Force the flash on.

Or visit the post office.