Sunbed tripping

[anubis68]

Hi all i have a sunbed connected to a 40amp trip with 16mm cable and the timer part of the bed is on a 13amp plug with is used on the ring main.
The problem i have is everything will be fine for a few days of use then the bed will trip the rcd on the cu at random i reset the trip and it will be fine for another few days then the same will happen

can anyone help out with this ?

many thanks

 

[securespark]

Hi (edit) anubis

How can you be sure it's the sunbed causing the tripping?


Don't know what I was thinking when I typed that...!

 

[anubis68]

before we intalled the bed we never had a trip in the 5 yrs in the house nothing else has been added to the ring apart from the bed and soon as i reset the trip everything works fine for a few days

hope this helps a bit

 

[securespark]

Not really. The nature of faults is that they seem to appear from nowhere.

Anything connected through the RCD could be causing it to trip.

If you can associate the 'bed with tripping by switching it on, the RCD tripping, switching it off & the RCD resetting, then I would suspect the sunbed.

 

[anubis68]

sorry forgot to mention that when the bed trips and i leave it plugged in and reset the trip it comes on straight away

 

[securespark]

Not conclusive, then.

 

[jj4091]

Could it be condensation forming somewhere? Where do use have the sunbed?

 

[plugwash]

is the sunbed on the same RCD as the ring?

 

[anubis68]

its in the bedroom yes its on the same RCD as the ring