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Electricity Failure. Help Please.

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Tilly2 | 07:42 Sun 09th Jun 2019 | How it Works
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Earlier this morning I put on my oven and set the pyrolytic cleaning mode.
About an hour later the oven, the second oven, hob, and switches in the kitchen all lost power.

I looked in the consumer unit and one of the RCD switches was off. I switched it back up and the power was restored. There must be a fault somewhere though. Any ideas as to what I can do to find out?

I hate messing about with electricity.
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Og's right. RCDs (2 of them in a modern box) usually cover several circuits. Each circuit will have its own circuit breaker (switch in place of the old re-wireable fuses.) If it was your RCD, then there's no reason to suppose there is any overload. RCDs don't operate on overload - circuit breakers do that.) RCDs operate on Earth Fault....
14:10 Sun 09th Jun 2019
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Horrah! I now have a sparkling, clean oven.

I tried it again this afternoon and nothing untoward happened. I would not have dared to try it again had I not had reassurances from so many of you that it was ok to try it again.

I am still here and the oven has not burst into flames. :-)

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