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Following the earlier steer that the most likely component to break is the
heater element in the washer, I took the connections off that.

It then does not trip the RCD and I was able to select the drain programme then
the spin programme, without problem.

But then the strange bit - when the spin finished I reconnected the heating
element and it still didn't trip the RCD.

Testing the resistance from each terminal on the heating element to Earth, with
the low-voltage meter, it was about half a Meg Ohm on each. Could this be a
fault that only shows up when under power and/or heated?

Just to be clear, there have been NO further trips of the RCD when the washer is
unplugged. Maybe just a coincidence or maybe that ring has high earth leakage
anyway. Not sure.

Any further with that odd Earth Neutral short on the mains filter?..

Very often heating elements increase their leakage as they warm up least
the two or so I've had to replace have!..

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Tony Sayer