Safety switch tripped at home, taking out all of our power points, including fridge.

Fried slug!

Fortunately, we were able to find an electrician (Chris from Lexity Plumbing & Electrical Melbourne) to come out to solve the mystery.

Final diagnosis:
1. The existing “Lanson” safety switch model has known problems. See first photo.
2. Replaced the old safety switch and circuit switches with two “Voltex” switches with built-in safety tripping. See third photo.
3. Even with the new switches, it kept tripping.
4. Laborious inspection of the power points on the ground floor discovered a bedroom power point, still warm, with a slug (or something) fried across the terminals. See photo.

$1000 and more than half a day gone 😞.

Not our preferred “tripping”.

Better than a fire, though, hey.