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Default RCD tripping when a bulb blows


Got into a silly argument with an electrician the other day re RCD
nuisance tripping. In his humble opinion RCD's were a PITA 'cos anything
and everything will cause them to trip and "every bl**dy bulb that fails
will cause them to trip".

A bulb failing?. Never heard of this so has anyone else and assuming
quite reasonably that as a bulb could only short out the live and
neutral with no apparent earth fault current, is this a possibility or
was he being a prat?....

As he seems to have been with some of the waffle he's come up with....
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Tony Sayer

 
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