Hoping someone can point out the flaw in my understanding here;
We had a fault in the kitchen loop trip the RCD. In the process of narrowing it down it tripped a couple more times before isolating it to the extract fan.
We resolved it by replacing the fuse; but my understanding would be that if the fuse failed then there shouldn't be a circuit, so no current running, in which case it shouldn't trip the RCD?
In this kind of situation where the solution defies logic sometimes it's coincidence. RCD faults are very often moisture related, could have been whatever was tripping it dried out while you were changing the fuse. Can you put the old one back in and test it again?
Hoping someone can point out the flaw in my understanding here;
We had a fault in the kitchen loop trip the RCD. In the process of narrowing it down it tripped a couple more times before isolating it to the extract fan.
We resolved it by replacing the fuse; but my understanding would be that if the fuse failed then there shouldn't be a circuit, so no current running, in which case it shouldn't trip the RCD?