Everything in the kitchen just stopped so I reset the mcb. The freezer
wasn't working so I changed the fuse in the spur box to the freezer and the
fuse in the plug. Both had gone. The freezer no appears to be working, well
the thermastat light has come on. Am I likely to find a load of defrosted
food in the morning?

Kevin

"Zen83237" wrote in message
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Everything in the kitchen just stopped so I reset the mcb. The freezer
wasn't working so I changed the fuse in the spur box to the freezer and
the fuse in the plug. Both had gone. The freezer no appears to be working,
well the thermastat light has come on. Am I likely to find a load of
defrosted food in the morning?

Kevin

This may be a good time to search for a new freezer.

"Nick" wrote in message
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"Zen83237" wrote in message
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Everything in the kitchen just stopped so I reset the mcb. The freezer
wasn't working so I changed the fuse in the spur box to the freezer and
the fuse in the plug. Both had gone. The freezer no appears to be
working, well the thermastat light has come on. Am I likely to find a
load of defrosted food in the morning?

Kevin

This may be a good time to search for a new freezer.
I was hoping that wouldn't be the case. Just as well I am getting a zero %
credit card.

Kevin

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"Nick" writes:

"Zen83237" wrote in message
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Everything in the kitchen just stopped so I reset the mcb. The freezer
wasn't working so I changed the fuse in the spur box to the freezer and
the fuse in the plug. Both had gone. The freezer no appears to be working,
well the thermastat light has come on. Am I likely to find a load of
defrosted food in the morning?

This may be a good time to search for a new freezer.

If it managed to blow both fuses, that's sounds like a dead
short, which is more likely to be a simple electrical fault
in the appliance or flex than a terminal failure.
Doesn't mean it won't happen again before morning.
Such a fault will have generated quite a burn/flash mark,
and it might be quite visible if you have a careful look
along the flex and at the back of the appliance.

--
Andrew Gabriel
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"Nick" writes:

"Zen83237" wrote in message
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Everything in the kitchen just stopped so I reset the mcb. The freezer
wasn't working so I changed the fuse in the spur box to the freezer and
the fuse in the plug. Both had gone. The freezer no appears to be
working,
well the thermastat light has come on. Am I likely to find a load of
defrosted food in the morning?

This may be a good time to search for a new freezer.

If it managed to blow both fuses, that's sounds like a dead
short, which is more likely to be a simple electrical fault
in the appliance or flex than a terminal failure.
Doesn't mean it won't happen again before morning.
Such a fault will have generated quite a burn/flash mark,
and it might be quite visible if you have a careful look
along the flex and at the back of the appliance.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

I will have a look but I am a bit confused now. I was alerted to the problem
when the mcb for the kitchen tripped out. This morning it dawned on me that
the fridge and freezer are on unprotected circuits, not on the kitchen ring.
So was it a coincidence that the MCB tripped.

Kevin

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In article ,
"Nick" writes:

"Zen83237" wrote in message
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Everything in the kitchen just stopped so I reset the mcb. The freezer
wasn't working so I changed the fuse in the spur box to the freezer and
the fuse in the plug. Both had gone. The freezer no appears to be
working,
well the thermastat light has come on. Am I likely to find a load of
defrosted food in the morning?

This may be a good time to search for a new freezer.

If it managed to blow both fuses, that's sounds like a dead
short, which is more likely to be a simple electrical fault
in the appliance or flex than a terminal failure.
Doesn't mean it won't happen again before morning.
Such a fault will have generated quite a burn/flash mark,
and it might be quite visible if you have a careful look
along the flex and at the back of the appliance.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

I will have a look but I am a bit confused now. I was alerted to the
problem when the mcb for the kitchen tripped out. This morning it dawned
on me that the fridge and freezer are on unprotected circuits, not on the
kitchen ring. So was it a coincidence that the MCB tripped.

Kevin
ok, the microwave tripped the mcb, now completely dead.I am puzzled why the
freezer blew 2 fuses.

Kevin

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"Zen83237" writes:

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I will have a look but I am a bit confused now. I was alerted to the
problem when the mcb for the kitchen tripped out. This morning it dawned
on me that the fridge and freezer are on unprotected circuits, not on the
kitchen ring. So was it a coincidence that the MCB tripped.

ok, the microwave tripped the mcb, now completely dead.I am puzzled why the
freezer blew 2 fuses.

I wonder if you had a large voltage surge?

Strangely enough, my bathroom fan heater died this morning
with a flash and a bang, and a shower of red hot gobs of metal,
a couple of which burned holes in my underpants. Fortunately, I
wasn't wearing them at the moment. It tripped the 20A MCB, but
didn't blow the 10A fuse in the FCU. Looking inside, it's
flashed across at the point where the live and neutral are
quite close at the element connections, but there's not
enough left at the site to see what triggered it.

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Andrew Gabriel
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"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message
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"Zen83237" writes:

"Zen83237" wrote in message
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I will have a look but I am a bit confused now. I was alerted to the
problem when the mcb for the kitchen tripped out. This morning it dawned
on me that the fridge and freezer are on unprotected circuits, not on
the
kitchen ring. So was it a coincidence that the MCB tripped.

ok, the microwave tripped the mcb, now completely dead.I am puzzled why
the
freezer blew 2 fuses.

I wonder if you had a large voltage surge?

Strangely enough, my bathroom fan heater died this morning
with a flash and a bang, and a shower of red hot gobs of metal,
a couple of which burned holes in my underpants. Fortunately, I
wasn't wearing them at the moment. It tripped the 20A MCB, but
didn't blow the 10A fuse in the FCU. Looking inside, it's
flashed across at the point where the live and neutral are
quite close at the element connections, but there's not
enough left at the site to see what triggered it.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

Well it always pays to check. I took the back off the micowave not expecting
to be able to do anything and immediately saw a 10A fuse on a circuit board.
I put a 13 amp plug fuse in its place (standing well back just in case)
plugged it in and hey presto the display on the micro wave lit up. So having
got a replacement 10A fuse I have saved a £160 microwave.

Kevin.