Shower Problems Can anyone Help !!!!!

[lindo]

To All,

I'm new to this game but i'm hoping someone out there can help as i have a shower that i would say has been working perfecdtly till yesterday morning when out of the blue it didnt work!!! i found out that the main fuse for the shower had triped and now it happens all the time........What is wrong???
How can i stop this from triping as i'm confussed????

Andy

 

[kevplumb]

try posting in the sparks forum

 

[wotan]

try posting in the sparks forum

This is the sparks forum, electrics uk.

 

[starspark]

first place to look should be shower pullswitch its probably burnt out and tripping the circuit.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

try posting in the sparks forum

This is the sparks forum, electrics uk.

It is.

But the OP didn't originally post in this forum:

Indeed.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

first place to look should be shower pullswitch its probably burnt out and tripping the circuit.

Really?

While you try and come up with an explanation of how a burnt out switch can trip the circuit, (which I do look forward to reading), I'll suggest that we find out things like whether it's an MCB or RCD which is tripping, how old the shower is, whether there are any signs of water leakage, that sort of thing...

 

[holmslaw]

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[starspark]

because the cables have burnt in the pullswitch due to loose connection etc and melted together causing rcd to trip or breaker i come across it all the time!have i missed something??
i dont think trying to be clever and sarcastic is needed either holmslaw

 

[RMS]

A loose connection in the shower isolator can cause melting of cable insulation causing conductors to short out, tripping an MCB or RCD, depending on which conductors short out together.

I come across this quite often.

 

[ricicle]

In 21 years I've never come across it !

 

[starspark]

thanking you rms i knew i wasnt going out my mind!!i was starting to think i had not read post properly!!i come across this at least once a month its probably because i do more domestic than anything else though!!!