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Fuse box keeps tripping

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Oldchucky said:
UK 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!
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Its between 220 to 240 volts
 
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Chazza69 said:
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
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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!
 
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Greenadian said:
Some electricians install brand new panels with slightly used breakers!! May be a faulty/used breaker
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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 fans
 
#29
You need an electrician to diagnose the problem. 220v is not to be messed with! It can kill you quickly. With luck it’s a bad breaker or connection. There’s also an outside chance one of you lights is bad and causing it. Unless you have the knowledge/experience DO NOT screw with it yourself.
 
#31
I suggest buying a meter that goes between the plug and the outlet. Then test the power draw from each of the lights, as well as any of the other electrical devices on the same circuit. Add them all together to determine what the total is.
 
#32
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!🤷🚑
 
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Oldchucky said:
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!🤷🚑
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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.
 
#34
@Chazza69 - Could you take a few pictures so we can get a better idea of your problem?
 
#35
Of the electric breaker or fuse panel and oulet is what love growing it is asking for pictures. Here in the states the smallest breaker you use with 220 is a 20 amp breaker, and that is for small power tools, 30 amp is more standard as well as 40 amp and 50 amp breaker. Im looking into uk electric setups for fun now lol
 
#36
So reading on i,t you are probably using a radial circuit that has other things being shared in your house, so if you find a separate outlet on a different circuit to split the power, or If you can use one of the outlets running on the 32 amp ring circuit it should help fix your issue. You should keep it under 3000 watts for your circuit from what I am reading, I'm half awake right now, from what I have read if you got a 720w light like you mentioned earlier, you should have no problem running that light alone instead of the 3 small lights, but you will still want to find everything that is sharing that circuit to cut the shared power down or use another outlet on another circuit. Hope this helps 👍🏼
*Correction, I meant to say 3000w per outlet socket
 
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#37
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.
 
#38
Do these lamps have a metal body or is it plastic?
Not sure what breakers you use in the US,
On some of our older ones that push in you can put a fuse wire across them if they keep popping. Leave the breaker off and rely on the fuse wire. 15 amp fuse wire will handle quite a lot
 
#39
LoveGrowingIt said:
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.
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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 troops
 
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nowthenourkid said:
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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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.
 
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