SAFE-T-CUT TRIPPING DAILY

[livram]

3 minutes ago, Metropolitian said:

Yes, your old module is a RMD3 from the Gold series of STC. The official distributor of SafeTCut stopped selling these as they have now the new model RMD9 in stock.

There are still retailers that have the RMD3 in stock , old stock.

 

The RMD9 has the room (with text 'disconnect L N ,dieelectric test' ) between the RCBO and Mainbreaker removed, so the module is a bit smaller.

 

Tip: in the future you can have a surge protector at the left side of your consumer unit to protect your equipments from HV spikes or have an extra breaker at the right. Meanwhile this gap can be closed with a piece of plastic.

 

RMD 3                and the                    RMD 9

Exactly right, RM9 a little smaller. Found out our PEA sparky has had the week off and is at a party house. Right now am still trying to find a sparky.

[sometimewoodworker]

8 minutes ago, livram said:

Exactly right, RM9 a little smaller. Found out our PEA sparky has had the week off and is at a party house. Right now am still trying to find a sparky.

If you have a sparky you trust just wait for him.

[Crossy]

12 hours ago, sometimewoodworker said:

If you have a sparky you trust just wait for him.

 

Agree. It's not like you can't live with the issue for a few more days.

[RichCor]

On 4/18/2020 at 6:09 AM, Crossy said:

On 4/17/2020 at 5:54 PM, sometimewoodworker said:

If you have a sparky you trust just wait for him.

 

Agree. It's not like you can't live with the issue for a few more days.

 

Yea. I want to see how sensitive that failing 63A breaker gets. Will it get so bad that looking at it funny will cause it to pop? Isn't this exciting??

[sometimewoodworker]

19 minutes ago, RichCor said:

 

Yea. I want to see how sensitive that failing 63A breaker gets. Will it get so bad that looking at it funny will cause it to pop? Isn't this exciting??

Better than watching paint dry, something I may be doing soon.

[livram]

My PEA guy has screwed me around for 9 days and still has not shown up. Tomorrow I am going to PEA to see if I can get a different guy.

[livram]

SOLVED??  This AM went to local PEA asked to have tech turn off power at meter or better yet replace RCBO part. Within 20 minutes PEA tech called and was at our house 5 minutes later. Yep, same guy that has been avoiding us for over 10 days.

 

He turned off meter and replaced part which was lucky for me because the old part was very, very hard to remove, it was really stuck and I would have gave up because I would have been afraid of breaking something.

 

The old part had a burn spot where the L cable connected to the 3-bar/rcbo. He said was caused by ants but I didn't see any ants at all. I forgot to get the size of the incoming cables but so far, so good. All a/c's ++ running good.

 

Thanks to everybody for pointing me in the right direction. Now I figure out how to close the gap at the end and hopefully I will be finished.

 

 

[Crossy]

Hmmm, more likely a loose terminal fizzing gently for a goodly while.

 

It's possible that it had actually welded the screw so no degree of "tightening" would have helped. It's also very likely that the heat from the bad connection is what's been causing your MCB to trip (thermal trip = delayed trip).

 

Job's a good un, and you have a "spare" RCBO section.