Old Fuse Box Trip Switch

If the switch trips again you ll know it s the last appliance that you plugged in and switched on.

Old fuse box trip switch.

A fuse switch that keeps tripping is usually caused by a faulty electrical item or an overloaded circuit. Turn off and unplug the appliance before resetting the switch. Once reset plug your appliances back in one at a time and switch them back on. In the case of loss of electric light or power your fuse box or consumer unit will either have fuses or trip switches.

Here we ll talk you through how to work out why your electric keeps tripping and how to repair a tripped fuse. Older ones have fuse holders and when a fuse is blown it must be replaced or rewired. How does a fuse work. If a fault develops a switch is tripped and the circuit is broken.

In a traditional fuse box each fuse. Locating the root of the problem is largely a process of elimination and something you can do yourself. The expression trip the fuse has gone out of fashion. Modern electric circuits are fitted with a circuit breaker fuse system.

Unplug all of your appliances and try resetting the fuse switch. The little bars were then replaced with fuses which were easier to change when they melted and then came the electrical panel with various levers. That is when houses had little lead and ceramic bars. Our presenter locates a traditional fuse box where she rewires the blown fuse.