Tripping Every Breaker in Italy 🇮🇹

Hi. I’m Italian. Currently ground fault protection is mandatory everywhere inside the house with a max delta of 0.03A. From the meter to the apartment a 0.3A ground fault protection is required only if the wires share the same pipe of other users. Short/overload protection is always mandatory. Now it is also mandatory to have a power spike protection

Wow, your daughter is so tall already! Time flies... Entertaining and instructive video, as always. Hope it didn't take too much out of your vacation!

Vincent Zalzal

In Ireland, the current regulations requires the lights and bathroom to be on dedicated RCD protected circuits. This means an earth fault in the bathroom shouldn't knock out the rest of the house and likewise tripping the sockets RCD shouldn't knock out the lights. Older installations usually excluded lighting circuits from RCD protection. From our experience, most white good electrical appliances usually fail at the end of light with an earth fault such as our previous fridge, freezer, kettles, dehumidifier, etc. As an experiment, with the dehumidifier that failed (well known UK Meaco brand), I disconnected the earth wire and ran it in series with an old 60W bulb and the Neutral. When I turned on the dehumidifier, the bulb fully lit up. With the last freezer, the fault was more obvious, i.e. multimeter showed direct continuity between the earth and live pins on the plug.

Seán Byrne

In the EU, black should be live and blue should be neutral. Somebody wired that incorrectly in the first hotel. Also, Italy has a different standard for sockets compared to the rest of the EU. I think only they have those flat sockets where you can plug in a Schuko (the big fat connector) and not have it grounded. The rest of the EU has only inset sockets, including the non-grounded smaller one, so you can't plug in the grounded connector into a non-grounded socket. There are exceptions probably, but that's been my experience so far.

TheEdgeOfRage

next vacation you need https://www.fluke.com/en-us/product/electrical-testing/installation-testers/fluke-1662 much more fun, some models (not sure if 1662 has it) trips gfci repeatedly while you reset breaker 5 times and displays time and current it takes to trip, just imagine the conversation at the reception while resetting the breaker 6 times

Thomas Eriksen

All that dust, is the remains of all the previous guest... Literally. lol

Guy Actual

why am i not surprised lol