On 22 Jul 2020 at 12:42:47 BST, "T i m" wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:54:04 +0000 (UTC), RJH
wrote:

I've a Beko condensing tumble dryer that trips the socket circuit RCD
(labelled 80A 30mA) only under certain circumstances - always at what seems
to
be the end of a cycle (in the sense that the clothes are always dry), and
only
after it hasn't been used in a while (like at the moment, when most drying is
done on the line).

That last bit suggests damp inside the unit somewhere, bit you would
have thought that it would trigger at the beginning of the cycle,
rather than at the end?


Resetting the RCD is fine.

So it's an intermittent / associated with a particular phase in the
machines cycle.

I'm assuming that a condenser - dryer might be at it's dampest near
the end of it's cycle, most water in the catch reservoir (if it's that
type)? Water leaking out of that (from a small split) when pumping?
(Aren't there some condenser - dryers that can discharge their
condensate into a drain like a WM?).


Any idea of the cause/solution,

The only machine tripping I have had was the WM but that was as soon
as you powered it up and because of carbon brush deposits built up
around the motor.

and safety issues?

BeKo tumble dryer you say ... ? ;-(


Very droll :-)

It's supposedly 'safe' in a general sense. At the end of the cycle it seems,
if anything, at its driest. Open it up mid-cycle and a cloud of steam comes
out. Anyhoo, I'll follow up on Jeff's suggestion first.

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Cheers, Rob