Kevin Sills wrote in message ...
I have had a good quality consumer unit fitted within the last 18
months. Before then I used to have an old fashioned one, first fitted
when the house was built in 1989. The new one was fitted by a qualified
electrical engineer who I have known and trusted for years.

With the old one using the iron would now and again blow the entire
circuits.

The iron was replaced roughly at the same time as the consumer unit.

With the new one, which is fitted with MCBs and an RCD, when using the
new iron, the RCD will trip intermittently. Sometimes the iron can be on
for half an hour or so before it goes and sometimes it will trip almost
as soon as it's switched on.

Kevin,

We've had the same problem for a few years now. Modern comsumer unit,
the trip would go about 1 in 3 times the iron was used. Nothing else
seems to throw the trip apart from the iron. I consider the iron to be
at fault. I've asked the ironong person to use it without any water
and the trip stays on. I can only assume that a faulty seal or
something similar has caused water to short the internal wiring. The
ironing person is apparently not happy at having to manually spray
water on the ironing but if it saves me having to go all the way down
to the garage to reset the RCD it has to be worth it.

Rgds

Noel

noel dot hegan at virgin dot net