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Electric shower trips RCBO intermittently, Shower unit faulty or RCBO?

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33 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

Not as if people choose to have a shower at below maximum flow rate.

Surely max flow rate is cool, I don’t like cool showers 🤷‍♂️

Just now, joe90 said:

Surely max flow rate is cool, I don’t like cool showers 🤷‍♂️

Well yes.

Should have said 'max flow for the temperature wanted'. 

Only weirdos like cold, dribbling showers, or maybe that is just my memory of the communal showers after rugby at the minor public school I went to.

Is it definitely an rcbo for a shower and not a RCD covering multiple circuits?

 

can you post a photo, as your last most says it doesn’t happen all the time.

It's my experience that thermal trips degrade with the increasing number of trip/reset cycles. It might've been on the bitter edge for years but now that it's tripped a few times it'll go a bit more easily.

 

I'd replace it with a 40A and ensure there's no evidence of heat damage on the cable ends, and re-try.

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