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Oven tripping out electrical circuit when turned on.

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 2.42 PM

Electrician from insurance seems to think the oven has 'earth leakage'. Every time its turned on, the electrics trip out.

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3 Answers

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Dereham
I would agree that the most likely faullt is live or neutral to earth leakage on one of the elements. This is normally caused by a microscopic holes developing in the outer surface of the element allowing moisture to get in, and thus reduce its electrical resistance to earth. Only real solution is to test the suspecet faulty element and if its found to have a low resistance either L or N to earth, then replacing it with a new one. This sort of fault is quite common on cookers that are a few years old.
Answered27 October 2011
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Anonymous user

Most likely the element or fan (if fan assisted)
Answered27 October 2011
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Anonymous user

The only other thing i could think of is neutral/earth fault on the cooker cable itself and it may only be tripping the RCD when some load is applied ie oven being switched on.
Answered27 October 2011
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