Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: terrymaloy on July 21, 2010, 03:51:21 pm
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Just had to walk away earlier from a £70 job
Set up my porty, switched on the mains...everything ok, but as soon as I switched on the vac the trip switch /fuse box in customers house tripped out ?
I literally unplugged everything I could see in the house hoping this would solve the problem but it didnt. There was nothing I could do but walk away. >:(
Anybody else encountered this ? Could have just been poor wiring in her house, as I've tested my machine when I got home and it works fine.
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Anybody else encountered this ?
Yes >:( But only on one particular detached house which was only about 3 years old. Lady was quite peeved that her computer kept getting knocked out, but the machine had a RCD fitted and didn't do it at any other property either before or after hers.
In the case of that job I had the plug fitted into the cooker socket too, so i put it down to being a 'house' problem.
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Did you try it on the main ring circuit ?
does your porty have more than one mains lead? ie. 1 for pump another for vac motors if so you could try different circuits for each plug, usualy solves the problem.
geoff
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Had it a few times mainly on new builds, tend to have a more sensitive trip switch.
As suggested try different leads on seperate circuits or work without the heater (if you got one).
Had a similar problem albeit self inflicted earlier this week.
Doing an Indian restaurant floor midnight after it closed, using Powerburst but forget to add defoamer >:(.
Halfway through, waste tank full with alot of foam tripped out all the electrics, reset fusebox but foam had got into the vacs and kept tripping it. Luckily had my backup machine in the van so was able to finish off :D
Tested the next day at home and the vacs were fine, obviously dried out.
Moral - don't forget your defoamer ::)
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Yes some new builds are a bit sensative with the fuse boxs...
Its awlays a bummer when your machine is full and getting ready to start..
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Always set the heater to zero before starting up and turn
it up slowly, seems to work.
Electrician told me that, surprisingly, less chance of it
happening in an old building with wire fuses.
He said the new type are a tad sensitive to sudden
high loads.
John