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Dual RCD seem to be linked and only one stays on. Although the whole house has power

Anonymous user 16/03/2024 - 2.38 PM

I have a weird one. Basically I have a dual RCD fuse and only one of the RCDs stays on. If I flick the one on the one that was on trips off. It doesn’t matter which one it is but one of them stays on. The whole house has power so the RCD tripping doesn’t take out half the house which is also odd. So it seems it’s all protected from one RCD. Again it can either RCD it doesn’t seem to matter. I’ve paid electricians to have a look and they seem to take the money and not fix the issue. Any help or advice would be appreciated so I know the next one to comes out knows what they are talking about and solves the issue. Thanks Jill

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Internal Repairs

Rating: 5 out of 5
Epsom
It could be a shared neutral between two circuits. That would be a cause of only one RCD being able to stay on at a time. However if your retaining full power to all circuits when one is down then you have a deeper problem. If you had two interlinked circuits for instance including a live conductor then potentially this could supply the circuits on the down side RCD with power. One thing I would quickly try is turning each circuit breaker off individually on the down side of the RCD and seeing if this A. disconnects the circuit it is protecting and B wether it disconnects any other circuit. If you find one of the circuit breakers disconnects another circuit or several than that is the circuit with the problem. Just a theory anyway! You definitely need a trusted electrician on site to resolve the problem though.
Answered5 January 2021
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Anonymous user

Have you recently had the consumer unit upgraded? A mixed neutral would manifest itself straight away? Dual RCD (RCCB) consumer units need to be wired so that circuits aren't mixed between the two RCCBs. By that I mean the neutral and phase would be on the same side and in the same corresponding L and N for that circuit. However, this type of fault would not allow you to set one or both RCCBs, so, unless its a replacement consumer unit and the electrician mis-wired it, I doubt this would be the cause of the fault. Can you post a photograph of the consumer unit and the problematic RCCBs?
Answered29 December 2020
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M.P. Webster Building/ Electrical Services

Rating: 4.4 out of 5
Hastings
Could be that you have a shared neutral on a lighting circuit
Answered30 December 2020
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Dave Harris Electrical

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Crawley
More likely to be borrowed neutral to upstairs and downstairs lighting in my experience
Answered30 December 2020
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