Temporary High Power Usage

QrizB

Gambler said:

Gambler said:

tim_p said:

Can you post a picture of your fuse box / cupboard so all external wiring is visible. (Don’t remember seeing a pic posted)

I did try to post a pic earlier. Will try again now.

Trying again!

I can see you've got two unlabelled breakers, both switched ON. Do you know what they serve?

Robin9

You have 3 ground floor circuits - ground floor sockets, kitchen and cooker.  What are the sprinklers - see have been added after the house was wired ?

Gambler

QrizB said:

Gambler said:

Gambler said:

tim_p said:

Can you post a picture of your fuse box / cupboard so all external wiring is visible. (Don’t remember seeing a pic posted)

I did try to post a pic earlier. Will try again now.

Trying again!

I can see you've got two unlabelled breakers, both switched ON. Do you know what they serve?

I'm afraid I don't know.

Gambler

Robin9 said:

You have 3 ground floor circuits - ground floor sockets, kitchen and cooker.  What are the sprinklers - see have been added after the house was wired ?

Yes the cooker fuse turns the cooker off but turning the kitchen sockets fuse off doesn't seem to turn any sockets off.

Sprinker system is statutory on new builds in Wales so would have been when the house was built 4 years ago.

QrizB

Gambler said:

QrizB said:

Gambler said:

Gambler said:

tim_p said:

Can you post a picture of your fuse box / cupboard so all external wiring is visible. (Don’t remember seeing a pic posted)

I did try to post a pic earlier. Will try again now.

Trying again!

I can see you've got two unlabelled breakers, both switched ON. Do you know what they serve?

I'm afraid I don't know.

If you turn them off, does anything stop working? If not, I'd be inclined to switch them off and leave them like that.

Gambler

QrizB said:

Gambler said:

QrizB said:

Gambler said:

Gambler said:

tim_p said:

Can you post a picture of your fuse box / cupboard so all external wiring is visible. (Don’t remember seeing a pic posted)

I did try to post a pic earlier. Will try again now.

Trying again!

I can see you've got two unlabelled breakers, both switched ON. Do you know what they serve?

I'm afraid I don't know.

If you turn them off, does anything stop working? If not, I'd be inclined to switch them off and leave them like that.

Thanks, I'm going to arrange for an electrician to come and check the fuse box as something is definitely amiss.

Scot_39

Gambler said:

Hi 

Me again!

Okay same issue since 11pm Monday night, continuous 300W.

I've been working so not had chance to look. This morning I tried the usual.

1. Turn off ground floor sockets at the fuse box. The 300W then disappeared as usually happens.

But the difference this time around is all the sockets are still working!?

This definitely wasn't the case on previous occasions as the fridge freezer would be off and the smoke alarm would start beeping.

Wouldnt the fridge freezer be plugged into a kitchen socket - so a separate breaker ?

And in some homes smoke detectors are wired into lighting - not ring mains - like on breaker 9 for upstairs.

The 40A - you got something really big - on breaker slot 5 - like an electric shower (40A at 230/240V = 9.2/9.6kW).

If nothing connected why have on ?  If have a shower - stick a label on it.

Veteransaver

Could it be some fault at the solar panel inverter? Not sure what sort of fault would cause that with an inverter though. 
 You've said you don't have batteries?

Veteransaver

Scot_39 said:

Gambler said:

Hi 

Me again!

Okay same issue since 11pm Monday night, continuous 300W.

I've been working so not had chance to look. This morning I tried the usual.

1. Turn off ground floor sockets at the fuse box. The 300W then disappeared as usually happens.

But the difference this time around is all the sockets are still working!?

This definitely wasn't the case on previous occasions as the fridge freezer would be off and the smoke alarm would start beeping.

Wouldnt the fridge freezer be plugged into a kitchen socket - so a separate breaker ?

And in some homes smoke detectors are wired into lighting - not ring mains - like on breaker 9 for upstairs.

The 40A - you got something really big - on breaker slot 5 - like an electric shower (40A at 230/240V = 9.2/9.6kW).

If nothing connected why have on ?  If have a shower - stick a label on it.

The 40A could be for a EV charge point, presumably not connected up. You could take cover off the consumer unit to see it any wires go into the the 16A and 40A breakers that aren't labelled.

(Turn the main switch off first though, or better still the isolator next to the meter, the white box not the red big red switch)

16A could be immersion heater (do you have a hot water tank) or power to a garage/outbuilding?

Gambler

Scot_39 said:

Gambler said:

Hi 

Me again!

Okay same issue since 11pm Monday night, continuous 300W.

I've been working so not had chance to look. This morning I tried the usual.

1. Turn off ground floor sockets at the fuse box. The 300W then disappeared as usually happens.

But the difference this time around is all the sockets are still working!?

This definitely wasn't the case on previous occasions as the fridge freezer would be off and the smoke alarm would start beeping.

Wouldnt the fridge freezer be plugged into a kitchen socket - so a separate breaker ?

And in some homes smoke detectors are wired into lighting - not ring mains - like on breaker 9 for upstairs.

The 40A - you got something really big - on breaker slot 5 - like an electric shower (40A at 230/240V = 9.2/9.6kW).

If nothing connected why have on ?  If have a shower - stick a label on it.

The breakers weren't working correctly as they weren't wired up properly!

So I've had a whole new fuse box.