Electricity Cuts Off But Lights Still Working Help!

[TheSnakeman]

Every few hours, everything such as the TV, freezer, router etc cuts out but the lights and the socket for charging my phone are still working. So what do you think is wrong.

[Old_Geezer]

I think that the socket for charging your phine may be on the lighting circuit si beware what you plug in there.

Does the power come back on, on it's own ? I think, most likely, something's triggering the circuit breaker. You need to experiment with switching things off and identifying which it is causing it.

[Old_Geezer]

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[youngmafbog]

First what sort of consumer unit have you got? i.e does it have lots of little switches and a couple of RCD's? and what do you mean by "cuts out" ?

The lights will be on a different circuit which explains them going out. Just need to understand your setup to advice diagnosis route.

[Old_Geezer]

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Tech being particularly frustrating today. Surely, at most, there can't be more than four letter changes per word ?

[KARL]

Modern supply units are divided into two or more sections, each governed by a residual current device which, if tripped, will shut down each section in turn. It sounds like this may be what happens in your case - the cause will be some device/equipment which has what is referred to as a "leak". This can be almost anything but it is well known that certain fridges, freezers and large TVs can cause this. The way to check is to unplug one item at a time and once the tripping stops re-plug the item in again and see if the pattern starts again.

Alternatively, if only one circuit breaker is being tripped then that is likely an overload of some sort, perhaps a short (maybe intermittent) in some item, and that could be almost anything on that circuit, including a switched socket (I have had at least two examples).

[Tuvok]

Do you mean that your circuit braker trips? Then you have to reset it?

You say every few hours - does that include during the night?

Is there a pattern eg. same times every day? If so what turns on then? Perhaps thats when the freezer compressor starts/stops? Or when you put the dishwasher on?

If you can narrow it down you might find the culprit.