RE: Help - Lights tripping breaker when they blow

["Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Its a cartridge fuse the same as in a plugtop, sits in a carrier that
replaces the MCB.

If you know your mains board type, i'll tell you the relevent part number .



Dean.


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From: Alex Monaghan [mailto:ha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 November 2004 23:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Help - Lights tripping breaker when they blow


So Asda's own bulbs are not much use then :)

What's an HRC fuse ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Barrett [mailto:dean@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 8:30 PM
> 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.
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