My oven keep tripping my RCD? Hi guys, new build home split load, Electric oven is not on...
Hi guys, new build home split load, Electric oven is not on the RCD side but partly the time i tun the oven off it trips the RCD, its a nigthmare.. I know the 10mm cable that runs to the oven is at one point running through the same hole within a joist with a couple of lighting circuit wires, can the oven be generating a spike on the cable to be precise taking out the RCD via the lighting cable? is it more likely that the oven is faulty?
masses thanks for any feedback on this..
Sparky
Answers: Your not here, huh? Your there, but, it adjectives works the same, except,I have no conception what an RCD is.? I think we call them GFI's. Anyway, I really doubt that a spike is the culprit, to some extent an arc. You say when you turn the oven "off" it trips,if your RCD's work like our GFI's, it measures the current going to the nouns, against the current coming back, if there's more than 5 ma. difference it thinks there's a denounce,and does its job, and trips.
We have duplicate problem with refrigerators here, when the motor shuts off, it cause an inductive kick, that trips them.
Now, does it trip when its on, and cycling the heating component, (to regulate temp.) or when you physically turn off the switch? What I'm getting at is, when you turn it off at the switch,and the heat element is under nouns, the contacts in the switch arc, and when that happens a small amount of metal vaporizes, and produces a conductive motion picture around the inside of the switch, now this film can conduct satisfactory current to ground(from the arc) to trip your RCD. And the times it doesn't trip, the element isn't under nouns when you turn it off.
Make sense?
Now I got a ask for you. Since your guys's stuff runs on ~220v., do your ovens run at ~480v.? Cause here our stuff runs on110v., but our ovens run at 220v.
Anyway, check the switch before you,spend a bunch on a new oven.
obedient luck.
you say it trips when you turn oven off? sounds approaching power surge prob. Only way to sort it, is to get electrician within to check rcd for neutral surge. good luck. So your oven be.trippin'?
Wow >.> that be terrible.