Re: Fuse Box puzzle....
Originally Posted by
Pesta
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About 2.30am last night I woke up for some unknown reason. Checked
clock radio for the time but it was off. Put
bedside lamp on and it wouldn't come on. Checked main bedroom wall light - fine. All wall lights came on fine throughout.
So I figured it was the sockets and checked the fuse box and the socket switch one was off. Switched it back on and everything fine again.
I don't leave any appliance switched on constantly at the sockets except for the fridge freezer (which I didn't check), washer,
router (was off),
answerphone (was off),
clock radio, bedside light and electric toothbrush (were off). (Cooker ok, but that's on a separate fuse and was fine).
I unplug the kettle, toaster and m/wave every night, and I switch off the table lamps, TV and Freesat box at the sockets each evening.
The switch type things with the fuse at the side of it, are constantly on... ie the electric to the
CH boiler, the
cooker hood and the
burglar alarm. I never thought to check those to see if they were off but I remember when I switched on the socket switch in the fuse box I thought I heard a noise in the boiler area as if it was coming on. I can't be sure of that as the a/phone and clock radio were beeping.
All those switches with the fuse by the side of work fine - but I'm not sure (as I didn't check), if they went off too.
As clock radio, bedside lamp, router, answerphone, clock radio, bedside light, electric toothbrush, CH boiler, cooker hood (I assume this wasn't actually left running) and burglar alarm seem to be the things affected, I'd say that most of those are low-powered things with the exception of the boiler. I'd say that it was most likely to be the boiler or the fridge-freezer (as Judd suggested) which might have tripped the circuit breaker,
as they tend to keep turning themselves on and off.
I believe we once had a breaker trip and found it was the fridge-freezer which was responsible.
As it hasn't happened since, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
Originally Posted by
Pesta
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I was asleep in bed, so not using any appliance and can't work out what happened.
Everything's fine now but it's puzzling me. Any ideas please?
If we're both thinking of the same 'appliance' here, it can't be that as they run on batteries.
(Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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