What To Do When the Safety Switch turns off
A simple step by step guide to fault finding.
- If your Safety Switch has turned off, it has done so for a reason.
- It has detected a leak of some electricity.
- This may be through a faulty appliance or it may be a fault in the house wiring
- These instructions will help you find that leak.
- First try to turn the Safety Switch on.[Marked Residual Current Device]
- If it stays on then the fault was intermittent or transient and we can do nothing at this stage. You can't find a fault that's not there.
- Think of what you were using at the time.
- If the Residual Current Device Flips off again,then you can continue with this list.
- If I have fitted a Clipsal Circiut Breaker Powerboard for you, then it would be marked in a uniform fashion. Turn off the green labelled Power Circiut Breakers.
- Turn on the Residual Current Device.
- If it won't stay on then you will have to unplug all appliances. Not just turn off, Unplug!
- This includes any outside power points or power to outbuildings.
- At this point the Residual Current Device should stay on. [If not you will need to call an Electrictian. Remember,there is a charge.
- If the Residual Current Device stays on then turn the green labelled Circiut Breakers on ,one at a time.
- When you come to the leaking circiut, the Residual Current Device will turn off.
- Unplug all appliances that are plugged in to power points that do not work.
- Turn the Residual Current Device on. If it won't stay on then you will have to call an Electrictian.
- If it stays on, then one of the appliances you have unpluged is faulty. Plug the items in, one at a time until you find the faulty one.
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