Tumble Drier keeps blowin fuse box.

harveybobbles

Tried it in every plug socket incase we have a dicky one, but it keeps trippin the fuse box.

anyone got any idea?

13A fuse in the plug.

waynehayes

Is it a new dryer?

harveybobbles

It's a 2nd hand one, but new to the house. I saw it working fine from the people I got it from. It came from an old house, so they may not have had one of these new, but rather annoying circuit breakers on the fuse box.

macman

Have you tried it on more than one circuit in the house? If tried downstairs, try upstairs ring main (or kitchen if separate).

booty40uk

Hi
Is it tripping the circuit breaker for that particular circuit or is it tripping the main RCD and taking out the whole house?

AGBAGB

If the standard plug fuse isn't blowing. Then its drawing less than 13amps. So the only reason it's tripping is it's leaking current to the earth.

Check the plug wiring, could be a loose strand shorting out. Otherwise, it's !!!!!!ed. Probably could be fixed by a "competent person" but could be expensive.

harveybobbles

Like I said, I have seen it working in the house it came from. Which makes me think that it could be our house with a new RCD. It trips all the sockets in the house.

The house it came from was old, so it might not have had a new ish RCD like ours, hence why it worked?

munkypuzzel

My own experience of this keep happening ended when the heating element gave up in the dryer. Replaced element, tripping stopped..

AGBAGB

Or something came loose/shifted in transit.
If it trips the RCD it's potentially dangerous, the RCD is protecting you. And yes the other house might not have the same level of protection.

GT60

Our condensor dryer started to do this after we moved it from the old kitchen to the new one and we blamed the new electrics so we pluged over 7500watts in the plug sockets and nothing happened.
we called out the engineer and he said the water had leaked onto the motor or something when we moved it causing it to trip the rcd in the house.
Hope this helps.

a.w.buildingservices

chuck it away your electric consumer unit is telling you that thee is a problem most likely in the earth some where you could get this pat tested (portable apliance test) but for the cost of a brand new tumble drier just bin it.
a new consumer unit will trip when there is a earthing problem and the reason for this!!! to stop you been electrecuted