A, so your fuse (MCB) will have to be minimum 40A or 45A max. It will hopefully be a circuit breaker, not a. Find great deals on eBay for shower circuit breaker. Hello, this morning I was having a shower with really really hot water.
Shower lasts at least minutes. This is different to an RCD and you need to be specific when describing that a breaker is tripping.
Either way a qualified electrician will neeed to investigate. If it is the latter,do not use the shower until rectified. The existing shower is a 9. It has been in for years since the house was rewired. Just a correction sen, an 8. I have always used a 40a breaker. A 40A circuit breaker is likely to be the correct option, but the cable size, length and installation method must be checked first.
Hi, I recently bought a flat with a triton shower installed. The shower is causing the mains circuit breaker to trip after approximately 7-minutes.
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RCD protection is not required. An instantaneously heating electric shower requires a dedicated radial circuit running from the consumer unit. We recommend that the circuit should include a milliamp Residual Current Device. An electric shower is supplied as a wall unit and uses an electric element to heat the water. The unit is plumbed into the cold water supply and is run on a separate circuit to avoid overloading the main circuit.
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KW I understand that the recommended circuit breaker for 9. If the cable run has to be done again, that WILL be a major headache. Recently the shower has started tripping the circuit breaker. It started doing it after a long shower , working its way down to just after a few minutes.
Check that your consumer unit has a main switch rating of 80A or above and that it has a spare fuse way to take the fuse or Miniature Circuit Breaker (MCB) for the shower.
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