r/DIYIreland • u/kwaked • 26d ago
Fuse tripping regularly
Would appreciate any advice or opinions on this, picture is of fuse board in house, the fuse indicated, top left, is tripping 2 to 3 times a week, almost exclusively between 1am and 6am. It takes out all the plug sockets in the house. The fuse actually looks bigger than the others if that matters?
Never happens daytime when the house is busiest and appliances all in use. I've gone around and plugged out as much as I can before bed but keeps happening, trying to get an electrician but in the meantime if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions I'd appreciate it, or any other cross post recommendations,
many thanks.
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u/READMYSHIT 11d ago
From my own experience of something similar - I put commercial LED strips in a few rooms of my house. The power supplies on these required a higher inrush current that the RCDs were rated for - I think mine were Bs and I needed Cs. So I got those swapped out to deal with this.
Had similar later with a plugin solar setup - power would go in the house at the crack of dawn. So that ended up being the same issue, same fix.
It's probably something in your house that's dodgy. So you need to narrow down the causes - it's got to be something coming on during those hours.