View Single Post
  #3   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
Brian Gaff[_2_] Brian Gaff[_2_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,631
Default DIY wiring likely to cause RCD trip

Erm, what. Surely if they are plug in then you can just unplug them.
Personally outside lightin run off the mains can be a real pest. Most of the
lights I've seen lately that are not floodlights are low voltage ones.
Brian

--
From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active
"Gareth Davies" wrote in message
...
The people who lived here before me wired outside security/night lights
not to the lighting circuit but to a socket ring. Although controlled by a
wall switch the lights actually plug in to a socket inside.

It's not the best job in the world.

I've been using the lights with my old style fuse box and a plug in RCD
which does trip every now and again - probably three times a week.

I'm having the fuse box replaced with a consumer unit and I am pre-empting
nuisance tripping from these lights.

Is is best to just disconnect them completely or is there any way of
isolating them so that they don't cause nuisance tripping?