A little advice needed.. Electrician coming back for 5th time tomorrow
I live in Spain.. And think I'm being told a load of rubbish by a supposed electrician.. Lots of fakes over here!!
So.. I have 3 phase to the house.. 3 live, 1 neutral 1 earth. Each phase is used independently
1 phase runs the house, one phase runs workshop 1 and 1 phase runs workshop 2 a circuit that is hardly used. Now it keeps blowing the 80A fuse on the neutral in main incoming board. Am I right in saying that's because the 3 phases are imbalanced.. House pulls about 8kw, workshop 1 about 8kw workshop 2 about 1kw.. Electrician tells me that it's because I need more neutrals.. Which I know is bollox... Possibly a bigger neutral due to imbalance.. But I would have thought the correct answer is to balance the phases out?.. I'm not an electrician but I am a qualified electronics engineer in industrial field.. Retired now though...
Any advice would be much appreciated.
I live in Spain.. And think I'm being told a load of rubbish by a supposed electrician.. Lots of fakes over here!!
So.. I have 3 phase to the house.. 3 live, 1 neutral 1 earth. Each phase is used independently
1 phase runs the house, one phase runs workshop 1 and 1 phase runs workshop 2 a circuit that is hardly used. Now it keeps blowing the 80A fuse on the neutral in main incoming board. Am I right in saying that's because the 3 phases are imbalanced.. House pulls about 8kw, workshop 1 about 8kw workshop 2 about 1kw.. Electrician tells me that it's because I need more neutrals.. Which I know is bollox... Possibly a bigger neutral due to imbalance.. But I would have thought the correct answer is to balance the phases out?.. I'm not an electrician but I am a qualified electronics engineer in industrial field.. Retired now though...
Any advice would be much appreciated.