Recent content by Ren_G

Yes there are a lot of plugs. House about 50 years old. Had COC done 2 years ago. Wireman fixed issues and signed off. Fortunately no call out fees as yet. But if current electrician fails will have to call out a "professional". Please note only started after loadshedding - could be related to...

Hi tx for your response Swa. The electrician that checked yesterday did say it couldn't be the geyser tripping. I switched on both geyser breakers on this morning and still fine - been an hour now. Electrician "hopefully" back today. He suggested a loose wire in an outlet maybe shorting. I also...

Further info. I had an electrician out yesterday. Did some fault finding and said the geysers were not the fault. He'll be back today hopefully to check further. He suggests loose wire in a plug outlet could be shorting?

Tx for your response Sinbad. If I guess it should be about 10 years old. This morning I put back the geyser breakers. Theres 2 geysers (2 breakers). I also put on 2 plug breakers (out of 4 plug breakers) and its staying up. I will observe further to see how long it holds as yesterday when I did...

Earth leakage started tripping after loadshedding. Turned off all breakers then switched one by one. Problem is that it's more than one breaker at a time that trips the EL. Started with the geyser breaker. Reset it. Was fine for about an hour. Then tripped. Reset. Fine for a while. Tripped...