2006-11-19 03:20:24 · 18 answers · asked by prettywoman 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Assuming you are in the UK ---- What exactly trips? a single circuit breaker or a switch with a small 'TEST' button next to it? It makes a BIG difference.
Most of the replies above are irrelavent to your problem or are from the US and will confuse you with different voltages and terminology!
YM me if you want some useful information.
2006-11-19 04:33:32 · answer #1 · answered by jayktee96 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends, is the dryer 120 or 240 volt? Is the dryer protected by its own breaker? Is it protected by a GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter)? Does the Main trip immediately or after a few seconds/minutes? If it is on its own breaker then I would say that breaker is bad and the dryer might be shorted (not overloaded, as that would probably burn up the dryer /feeder wiring before the main tripped. A QUALIFIED electrician should be called because there is not enough info to safely answer your question.
2006-11-19 04:18:21 · answer #2 · answered by electrdave 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You do not say whether this is a hand-drier (i.e. with a plug that needs a wall-socket), or whether it is clothes drier fed by a plug, or via. a fused spur (like a permanently fixed switch in the wall). These circuit breaker trip-switches operate by sensing a difference in the electrical current flowing in the 'live' (feed) wire .v. the neutral (return) wire. (the current should be the same in both). A difference in the current indicates a 'leakage' of current in the circuit - most frequently associated with a flow to 'earth'. If the same wall socket can be used for other electrical items, without 'tripping' then the fault is unlikely to be in the main house wiring or wall-socket. If the item is fed through a fused or switched spur, then that part of the circuit can also be faulty. The drier, or it's wiring (flex/lead/plug/spur) is faulty. DO NOT CONTINUE TO USE IT !!!!! - get it checked. If you continue to use it, you risk that electrical current 'leaking' into your body, or that of any person using it, or touching you at the time. !!!!!!!
2006-11-19 03:45:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a natural fenomenum because something liek a spark in a electric lighter or a gas owen lighter.
Anyway your switch will suffer damage from it and you will probably have to change it in 10 years. :)
The problem is you first turn the dryer on and then the main switch ON, you should do it the reverse way, first the main switch ON and then turn on the dryer ON. This way you won't have to change the main switch in 10 years.
:)
The nain switch is used only to prevent electrycity in the bathroom while YOU are taking a bath or work with watter
2006-11-19 03:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by SaSe 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am assuming that you have an Electric Clothes Dryer. An electric dryer uses 220 volts for operation. This voltage is divided at the dryer. 110 volts to turn the drum and 110 volts to heat the dryer. Most commonly you have a short circuit on the heating side of the circuit. Another possibility is the drum motor is stuck.
Because of the high voltage and potential for shock, please call a repairman.
2006-11-19 03:35:31 · answer #5 · answered by mark h 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are referring to a device marked "RCD" on your consumer which is identified by a "TEST" button on it, then it strongly suggests that you have a fault on your drier.
I assume that you mean a Tumble Drier or Hair Drier.
If it's a hair drier then throw it away as it would probably be uneconomical to repair.
If it's the Tumble drier, then you need a service engineer to repair it.
Find one in your local newspaper or yellow pages.
As Jayktee says , some of these answers come from America/ Canada and mean nothing here.
2006-11-19 21:43:48 · answer #6 · answered by robert22061954 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dryers take a lot of current try to make sure that nothing else is working on the circuit at the same time. Shed some load and try again. Otherwise you need to have a repair done to it.
2006-11-19 03:27:24 · answer #7 · answered by ask this dummy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
do you have a space heater plugged into the same circuit - a thrown breaker doesn't automatically mean that you have a short, it usually means there is more amperage flowing through than it was designed for ; if it happens a-lot it can arc the inside of the breaker, which makes it trip easier in the future because it isn't making a full contact - if it has happened a-lot you can buy a new one at lowe's or home crappot (probably a 30 amp breaker, single pole)
2006-11-19 03:26:58 · answer #8 · answered by hell oh 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is either a ground short, or too many amps going to one breaker or it could be your dryer. Do you have anything else on that line. I only have my dryer on one breaker and it is 20 amps.
Best bet...call an electrician, have it checked out. You don't need an electrical fire or anything else bad happen if there are bare wires/arcing, etc.
2006-11-19 03:25:59 · answer #9 · answered by tdakpj 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It sounds like the circuit the dryer is connected to is overloaded. Check in the fuse panel door to see what all is on that circuit.
You may want to get a electrician to look at it if there is nothing else on that circuit.
2006-11-19 03:23:49 · answer #10 · answered by Biker 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋