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What can be the reasons your safety switches keep tripping?

One of the most important safety features your local electrician on Gold Coast can install in your home is safety switches on your circuitry. Safety switches are often confused with circuit breakers and surge protectors which are installed to protect equipment and wiring. Safety switches role is to protect life, they do this by monitoring the movement of current as it passes through your electrical wiring and instantly disconnect the electricity if they detect any differences or changes.

When a safety switch in your home keeps tripping or shutting off your current it can be for any of these reasons:

·       Damaged or faulty appliances

When an appliance gets old, worn or damaged it can leak extra current. When this happens your safety switch will be activated and turn the current off. The best way to find a faulty appliance that leaking extra current is to disconnect all appliances on a circuit and try them individually

·       Damaged Wiring

Electrical wiring inside your home can become damaged through excessive movement cause by wind or storms, animals eating away at the insulation or it may have perished over time. Your friendly local electrician on The Gold Coast is the best person to check and replace faulty wiring that keeps triggering your safety switch

·       Too Much Load Drawn from a Circuit

Each electrical circuit is designed to have a maximum load.

If there are too many appliances on a circuit and the all turn at the same time they are

 very likely to cause a safety switch to trip.

As appliances age, they tend to allow tiny amounts of current leakage, when there are a lot of appliances on one circuit this can add up to enough to cause the safety switch to be activated when they operate. Disconnect a few appliances and see if it makes a difference. , call your friendly local electrician on The Gold Coast to have your wiring and appliances checked

·       Bad Weather

Safety switches can be affected by bad weather and storms, especially in extremely damp and humid conditions. Lightning strikes near your property or near the electrical supply line can also cause surges that may trip your safety switch

 

·       Defective Safety Switches

A defective safety switch may cause tripping, but usually when they are faulty they do not go off, so it’s important to check your safety switches regularly.

Check your safety switches at least once a month and after any major storms, If you do not think you can do that regularly you can arrange with your friendly local electrician on The Gold Coast to have a regular maintenance check scheduled on your safety switches every three months and a wiring check every year.

 

Electricity is one of the most helpful commodities in the home, but also the most dangerous if not handled properly. The small cost of having your electrical wiring and safety switches regularly checked will keep your family safe.

 

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