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Re: Servis Quartz Plus tripping household RCD
Sorted. It was the heater – many thanks the Ron of Ron’s Repairs for talking me through the problem – its resistance was too low, so the heater was trying to pull 5kW!. Anyway, a neighbour let me strip her old Servis Quartz when it died some years back, and I luckily had the heater from that, which did the trick.
Re: Servis Quartz Plus tripping household RCD
Turbo wrote: This machine must be 30 years old
Nah, mate. She’s only 22. We hope there’s plenty of life left in her yet.
the q spark wrote:you say you checked the resistance of the heater but did you check to earth as well as the heater itself
[Thanks for that – I may have missed it if it’s earthing – see below :boops: . Back to the old multimeter!
Anyway, things have got more interesting. The wife suggested trying it again since kit seems to like me and problems sometimes just go away when I’m around (when I was in IT Tech Support it was suggested that we should sell life-size cardboard cutouts of me to stand in customers’ machine rooms, as nothing would ever go wrong!). When I did so, all seemed normal, so I tried a spin cyccle – all OK (drum span, water left in machine pumping out). Cancelled programme and let it finish pumping out. Put a small load in and started programme 6 – machine started filling and agitating for a couple of minutes before tripping out the house RCD as before. I suspect it is the heater after all, as the “heating” LED hadn’t come on before everything tripped. Here’s hoping!
