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Eskom? No, the stove!
On Sunday the power in our house went down all of a sudden just past 12:00. We immediately assumed it was Eskom that was load shedding us. I went back to bed as I was still really tired and my mom went to read in her books.
About three or so hours later, I woke up. For some reason I just had the feeling I should check our electrical switch board in the passage. I did and guess what! Our earth leakage switch tripped and it cut power to our whole house.
Soon afterwards, it tripped again. The cause was kind-of strange. We have a stove with four plates. The stove is one of these big thermofan jobs but it's starting to rust a bit as it's getting old and we don't use most of it very often. We do use the two left plates (for some reason just the two left ones) rather often though for cooking. However, on that day my mom was already busy cooking stuff on the two left plates and I needed to use another plate so I used the right-back plate.
After some experimenting we discovered that this was indeed causing the problem. This right-back plate must have rusted or the wires oxidised or something as it was causing the earth leakage switch to trip every time we switch it on. It used to work fine a few years ago but oh well things change. :)
Good thing for trip switches otherwise we could have been electrocuted!
However we all found it quite funny that we immediately blamed Eskom. If this happened a few years ago, we would immediately check the switch board but these days we just assume we are on the receiving end of load shedding.
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