![]() ![]() Found it after 2 days and the Millipede was still alive. Its back end was fried to the PC board where the 220V came in but dried out from the current, but as it tried to move, it made contact and tripped. Another example was a Gecko in an outside plug and once i had a Millipede under the PC board in the power supply of a gate motor doing the same. Took me weeks to find because it was intermittent. The ants created a path for the current to flow between neutral and the screening of the cable. One of my worst cases at a clients house were ants walking over an exposed neutral wire in a damaged Surfix cable. I saw that a lot with outside or garden light circuits and outside plugs. Not always, from time to time you can get a intermittent earth fault, but in most cases it will progressively get worse over time to a stage where you can not reset it anymore. If there was an earth leakage somewhere surely the trip switch would keep tripping ![]()
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