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Default Garden lighting trips RCD

On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 19:33:23 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

On Sunday 23 June 2013 18:50 Gefreiter Krueger wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:19:47 +0100, Richard Russell
wrote:

We have an extensive, professionally installed, garden lighting system
which has recently started tripping its dedicated RCD. I have
eliminated all the bulbs, luminaires and accessible cables which,
sadly, means the problem is almost certainly in one of the many
'waterproof' underground connection boxes. How on earth does one
trace a fault like this? Dig up the entire garden?

Richard.
http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/


Change it to a good old fuse. They weren't so fussy. RCDs are a pain in
the arse.


Are you insane offering that as "advice" on a public group?

No of course you should not dispense with an RCD, *especially* on an outside
domestic circuit.


We managed just fine before RCDs were invented. Why has the world turned all girly?

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