ECCB Switch

Engine No.9

Thanks for looking folks. For the last 6 months or so, any time there's been heavy rain, the ECCB Switch on the fuse box has tripped. We end up with no power to the sockets but everything else (lights, cooker etc are unaffected). We normally can get it back after waiting 20/30 minutes so being men of limited means, meant we didn't need to call an electrician.

However, Storm Ciara is wrecking my brain. It's happened 4/5 times now today and is getting real tired, real fast. We've called an electrician, but I'm thinking it actually may be more a structural issue than an electrical issue (i.e water is getting in from the outside and tripping that switch). So maybe an electrician isn't actually required at all.

Just wondering if anybody has any experience of this and what was done to fix it. Cheers.

Tails142

Elcb?

Em, you got any outdoor lights or sockets that water could be getting into?

meercat

Tails142 wrote: »

Elcb?

Em, you got any outdoor lights or sockets that water could be getting into?

Or septic tank?
Also check that your immersion is turned off.

Engine No.9

Tails142 wrote: »

Elcb?

Em, you got any outdoor lights or sockets that water could be getting into?

Could well be ELCB. It's written in pencil on the switch label. No outdoor lights or sockets. Immersion hasn't been switched on in years. But I did just realise that the meter is directly above the front door and we have a small porch covering over it. Any likelihood that there could be a leak between it and the wall seeping in to the fusebox? Would that cause that particular switch to trip or would it trip the main switch instead?

Steve

Is it a single ELCB covering all your sockets?

Water could certainly be a cause, but not at the meter.

Can you post a pic of the fusebox?