Sparky Anyone?

[ChrisMember]

Looking for a Sparky.. Anyone know a reliable one? Blacktown area NSW…

I have a dodgy circuit somewhere.. I cannot run my electric dryer and any other appliance at the same time on one of my 2 power point circuits..

Cheers…
Chris………..

[Nick JacksonMember]

What are you running with your dryer?

[Nick JacksonMember]

Do you have safty switches?
How old is the house?
Does the dryer run ok alone?
Is their any moisture in the laundry or is it raining?

[ChrisMember]

Nickj wrote:

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What are you running with your dryer?
The kettle in the kitchen normally trips it but our floor vac does as well as the microwave.. I also trip it when I run the microwave and the kettle at the same time..

Do you have safty switches?
Yes at the main box is one of those Special cutout switches but that is not tripping the regular breaker is

How old is the house?
25+ Years?

Does the dryer run ok alone?
Yes all by itself fine

Is their any moisture in the laundry or is it raining?
Some moisture but not heaps and we normally open the laundry door to the outside so minimal moisture if any at all..

[Nick JacksonMember]

It sounds like it’s going out on load , you should have a 20/16 amp breaker on each power circuit and it sounds like you have a seperate safty switch. This means that it’s bypassing the safty switch because their is no wiring fault but the max load each power circuit can take is 20/16 amps , you must be exeeding the circuit breaker amperage . Check that it is 20 and not 16 amp it should be written on the breaker , eg c20 or c16.
If it’s 16 amp you can increase it two 20 providing the wiring is 2.5mm this is a cheap job by any sparky. If it’s already 20 let me know?

[Nick JacksonMember]

Another thing to check is the load of the dryer it could be as much as 13 amp and a jug is 12 amp so simple maths shows the problem on even a 20 amp circuit. in modern houses we always have the kitchen and laundry on seperate circuits for this reason.

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