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Electric keeps tripping

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Lisa A

My caravan has been in indoor storage all winter and is now on a seasonal pitch. When I plugged in the electricity and turned on the fridge the power tripped the site box. A caravan repair guy said it was the fridge, which needed a new heating element. I have brought the fridge home to repair. However, on Monday I returned to the caravan and all was well with the electric. Heating worked all afternoon, boiled kettle, used microwave (one at a time so not to overload system). Only other thing on was the coolbox. Then at midnight the power tripped again. Nothing additional had been turned on, just heater and coolbox running. Even after resetting trip electric did not return. Any ideas where to start searching for the problem?
 
Most caravan mains items - fridge, microwave etc - are fed from a 13A socket near the item. Just unplug them all and watch what happens, then if the mains does not trip start reconnecting them until you find which is at fault.

It would be useful if you defined whether it is an MCB or the RCD that is tripping. (The RCD is the breaker with a test button.)
 
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