Amperage into house

geographica

was reading somewhere recently that there should be a minimum of 100amps going into a house, I looked into the box at the side of the house and there’s a picture attached

we do get quite a few cut outs where the main switch in the consumer unit trips, switch it back up and all is ok again 🤷🏼‍♂️

Wonder what is, if any, the issues with having a 60/80amps vs. a 100amp unit into the house??

any help/advice would be appreciated, TIA

maybe it doesn’t matter and the cut outs are just one of those things🤷🏼‍♂️

Calahonda52

Where did u read that: I dont believe it is correct to say 100

You should never think this

maybe it doesn’t matter and the cut outs are just one of those things

geographica

i can’t actually remember but I did google it and it states new homes are Min 100amp

geographica

Yeh that’s why I created a post to get some advice from the experts

geographica

thanks, and would there be any benefit to have a sparks change that to a 100/200 or more amps?

Or would that be an ESBN job?

geographica

any tangible benefit to having it increased to at least 100amps? It’s a 5 bed detached house

Calahonda52

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123314042#Comment_123314042

OP you need to deal with this

we do get quite a few cut outs where the main switch in the consumer unit trips, switch it back up and all is ok again 🤷🏼‍♂️

geographica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123314662#Comment_123314662

Well there’s nothing specific, maybe when the shower is on but in the main no specific reason

in not enquiring into why it trips though

Calahonda52

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123314751#Comment_123314751

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY

geographica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123314088#Comment_123314088

Well it says that there is a bigger family hence more use of power

geographica

nice language, it tells you that there’s 4 showers and 7 people in the house so one could gather draw from the amount of people in the house no, given the number of bedrooms? Maybe not

All of the above are used, except a welder

geographica

a bit humpy aren’t you

thanks for your contribution

JL spark

another thing to factor is ,

Upgrading your esb supply ,

New mains cable

New 16kva rated fuseboard

Testing of whole house

All above if done properly,adds a lot to the cost 1000s

ted1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123314751#Comment_123314751

You need to look at the issue. There is obviously an issue somewhere.

Was the shower installed after the house was built. If you are tripping for over current a priority switch should have been fitted

there may be an easy fix, it might just be faulty breaker

ted1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123318378#Comment_123318378

Tells us nothing. The 4 showers could be gas heated..

geographica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123325659#Comment_123325659

Thanks will get an electrician in, there is a new electric shower in place of an original one, Triton t90 for new version but not sure if the “cut outs” are only since that was installed. I’d have to check with the boss 😜, the cut outs aren’t regular and not specific to the shower being on though, I watched to see if it happened when a shower, washing machine and dishwasher was on together but no, nothing happened. Hard to pin down

geographica

1 electric (Triton where water heater at the unit)

3 pumped electric (where water used is from hot water cylinder)

max only two used at once