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Chazza69
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Its between 220 to 240 volts
Its between 220 to 240 voltsUK I think is on 220 V! It should say on the breaker how many amps it can handle! Amps are what trips them! If you exceed the rated amperage, then they will trip! Hopefully!some real old places, still use fuses, and it will say on the fuse what it is rated for! Like the man above said! To find out what is on the circuit you need to turn everything on and then flip the breaker and see what turns off! I guess the first thing is to determine whether you have breaker or fuses! Wouldn’t surprise me if the UK is still using fuses! Lol! Breakers you just flip like a switch on and off!
Its less than a year old the fusebox was rewired proffesionally budI haven't looked into any uk electric, but to me it sounds like a faulty connection or even an old breaker that needs to be changed.
A 2 1/2 V surge is nothing! Somehow, you’re exceeding the rated amperage of the breaker! To determine the amperage of each appliance you’re running, you take the wattage of the appliance, which should be on a sticker and divide it by the volts, which is 220 and that will give you the amperage that the appliance is pulling! If it exceeds the rated amperage of the breaker, which should be on the breaker, then it will trip! No heater? Gas oven and water heater? Microwave? All of this shit adds up! And as stated above, 220 will give you one hell of a jolt! One of the best hair straighteners in the world!WE have came along way there breakers new box was fitted middle of last year its only my tv house phone and a fridge thats on then shuts down when i connect light but the lights say 2.5volt surge
Yes they do, I replaced my electric 50a dryer with a gas some fer years back. I am a sparky. So I took that extra 50amps, diverted to a new sub panel. Gave 20 amps to 2 separate rooms, running concurrent on a 220V, 4 HPS/1000w each. Had an extra 10amps fer separate breaker fer pumps/aerators, and circulatory fansSome electricians install brand new panels with slightly used breakers!! May be a faulty/used breaker
The UK plugs/outlets do have a different type of layout than we have here in the states. That said, it sounds like you're describing something like an AFCI (arc-fault) or GFCI (ground-fault) outlet. Nevertheless, if a breaker at the outlet tripped, the whole circuit probably wouldn't trip.I did a little googling, very little, and it looks like the UK has 13 amp circuits! And I don’t know if they still use them, but they had some weird plug-in, almost an adapter type that has fuses in it! And it said the fuses in those go from two amp, five amp, 15 amp, and 30 amp! So if you have a two or a five amp, there’s a pretty good chance you could blow the fuse in that!
There individual breakers for sockets, lights etc only sockets switch flicks but here is the part i forgot to say when the 3 lights were hanging and i reached in to water my shoulder slightly hit one light of each other which blew the switch so im praying and buying a big omega photon 720w and hopefully i dont get a prob like that again fingers crossed troopsThe UK plugs/outlets do have a different type of layout than we have here in the states. That said, it sounds like you're describing something like an AFCI (arc-fault) or GFCI (ground-fault) outlet. Nevertheless, if a breaker at the outlet tripped, the whole circuit probably wouldn't trip.
I forgot to say the lights are aluminium bodied and if i knocked them slightly and they hit each other that would trix fuse box switch so i think it has to be lights so i be glad to get my new light. I dont have a multimeter im a joiner to trade mate.Have you got a multimeter? I would check each lamp for earth leakage, new things can be faulty. Check for continuity between live and earth. If lamps ok then it looks like a faulty breaker. Not sure what type of breakers you have.
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