RE: Help - Lights tripping breaker when they blow

["Alex Clark" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow!  I've had the same problem for the past three years and it always
seems
to trip in the dark!

The main culprit are the 'candle' bulbs - 40w clear SES type.  Any idea if
these can be bought with in-built fuses?

Alex (C)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Barrett [mailto:dean@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 November 2004 20:30
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Help - Lights tripping breaker when they blow


Alex

Replace with HRC fuses - they'll never go before a lamp.. or

Buy a lamp with a fuse - i think Osram, and the other well known
manufacturers still fit a small fuse inside the filament.

To check if you have lamps with fuses, hold a lamp up against a bright
light, where the pearl changes to clear down the neck you can see a clear
glass tube over one side of the filament arm, if you cant see it, you
havent
got one :)

These fuses certainly stop MCB's tripping.




Dean.


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From: Alex Monaghan [mailto:ha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 November 2004 20:16
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Help - Lights tripping breaker when they blow


I recently installed a new consumer unit and migrated my (currently
completely standard, not automated in any way - yet !) lighting circuits to
it.

The old CU had 5A Type B breakers (the plug-in replacement for a
traditional
fuse type). The new CU has 6A Type B breakers. Every time a bulb has blown
since being on the new breaker it's tripped it (just the individual
breaker). I've seen this in many other people's houses. Is there any way to
prevent it ? It drives SWMBO mad.