Button position

Muppet Man

Looking for advice. Sockets went earlier in my dad’s house… probably something overloaded, or moisture from a shower. We’ve plugged out everything and even then the fault indicator on the Hagar switch circled in blue was staying yellow and it wouldn’t stay in the up vertical position. The only way I could get it to stay up was to leave the switch circled in red in the down position (green indicator). All sockets working again, I’m just not sure, if that red circles switch should be up or down. Obviously the lack of labels on the buttons is not helpful. If I force red circles switch up, all sockets go off and blue circles switch stays down with yellow indicator showing. Just want to make sure I’m not going to blow something up!

Muppet Man

just to be clear as it is right now in the picture, all sockets are working

Sleamhain

The blue circled switch is your RCD, this protects all your sockets and some other things like immersion, possibly shower pumps etc.

There is a fault on the circuit supplied by the red circled MCB - if you are saying all the sockets are working right now then it is supplying something else - is the immersion working, what about outside sockets, outside lights etc? Shower or water pump?

smuggler.ie

I am not electrician

"blue" is your RCD , it protects all socket circuits and cuts-off if leak to earth is detected (anything above 0.03A will trip it)
"red" will be one of the socket rings MCB( protects from over-current), could be electric gates.

Keep it down until you get spark to inspect,
Most likely you have earth leak due to condensation/water build up in the socket/junction box or device/appliance plugged on that circuit. shed/workshop perhaps ???

Determine where sockets/devices are not working on the property with "red" in down position, remove all plugged devices from sockets - see if it stays up thereafter.

Muppet Man

thanks for the responses so far. He said he was drilling in the shed, while the shower in the house was on, and also the outside Xmas lights were also on. Probably a perfect storm of draw through the board. But to be clear - am I correct in saying that the red circled MCB should be pointing up, in normal operating circumstances, like the others?

I’ll some more trial and error with the sockets tomorrow in the daylight.

Thx

Sleamhain

Is it possible that the drill went through a cable and caused the trip?

An overload would not trip the RCD and if it was an overload on the 'red' circuit then it would resolve itself and you would be able to get it back on again.

There is a fault on the red MCB circuit which is causing the RCD to trip.

John.G

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124114568#Comment_124114568

Yes, the red circled MCB switch should be UP normally.