Washing machine tripping fuse

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victor2 said:

macman said:

I' guessing that, since it was moved without the transit bolts, the drum has swung about in transit and caused some damage, which may result in earth leakage, causing the breaker to trip? Simple enough for a white goods engineer to test it.
Otherwise the coincidence is just too great.
Transit bolts are there for a reason.

Or it could be that the fault was there for some time, and the old house didn't have RCDs to detect it and trip.

Or bouncing around in the back of a truck caused a close-to-failing heating element to finally give up. That could happen with or without transit bolts being fitted.

movilogo

It is very likely that it got damaged during a long journey in removal van. I noticed that there were no transit bolt at rear.

Anyway, I am wiser now and ordered a new washing machine which won't be delivered for 10 days - so need to find a laundry nearby in the meantime 

Thanx for all the help & advice. 

Risteard

FreeBear said:

Risteard said:

movilogo said:

Don't know what that means. I see that a fuse in main fuse box down position after it trips and I just put it back to up position.

It is an old house, some sockets seems older than me. 1960s house with original electricals mostly, don't know if that helps. 

The point being made is that a fuse will rupture, and would need to be replaced. A fuse cannot be "reset". As such the suspicion is that the protective device to which you refer is not actually a fuse, but perhaps a circuit breaker etc.

Matters not what the OP calls the device. Grumbler has identified the breaker as an early type of RCBO (specifically, a System D from the 70/80s). And the point is pretty irrelevant as they were asking what the likely cause of the tripping is.

And yes, there are devices known as "resettable fuses" - Often found inside sealed power supplies and in aerospace applications. One would not normally find such a device in a consumer unit.

I wasn't suggesting that it overly matters what it has been referred to as - I was just explaining the point which the other poster had made. By the way, that company is called Square D (now owned by Schneider) - not System D.

Something being known as a "resettable fuse" does not make it a fuse. As I mentioned, a fuse ruptures. If it doesn't rupture then it isn't by definition a fuse.

Andersen EV (before it went bust) had Dynamic Load Management which they referred to as an "adaptive fuse". Calling it this did not make it a fuse. It remained a load curtailment device.