paul wood wrote:

Have just wired in two 58W fluorescent striplights to sit under
decking & it looks pretty good, when it works. Problem is, sometimes
when I switch on, the main trip on fusebox goes off. The two PIR
floods I wired in at the same time work fine. Can't find any fault
with my wiring! The lights are connected to a ring main via a switched
FCU. Any ideas, please??
Thanks in advance, Paul.


Yeah. Right.

Upgrade the main RCD to 100mA, and split the consumer unit so the rings
that represent a hazard are on a separate 30mA RCD.

I got so sick of triping on my box, now its all om 100mA, and there
ain't enough room to split it and I can't be arsed either.