Electrician question

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I have a question I'm hoping an electrician may be able to answer. A few hours ago I went to turn on my cooker hoods light and a bulb blew and flipped the circuit breaker that it's on. I replaced the bulbs with spares I had from the last time it happened and reset the circuit breaker but the lights and fan of the cooker hood don't work.

All other sockets in the kitchen work, and the switch that the cooker hood is wired into I've checked the fuse with a multimeter and that still has conductivity so isn't blown, and I couldn't see any sort of fuse in the cooker hood itself.

The cooker hood is a Caple model F3 60 INOX SL. The only manual I could find only was a stupid 2 page PDF of a photo of the manual (which I don't seem to have myself) and only talks about things like washing the metal filter, and replacing the carbon filter etc... no info on what to do if it completely stops working after a blown bulb.

So if anyone has any clue as to what the problem might be and any way to solve I would appreciate it. Thanks.

 

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What size fuse was it?

What tends to happen is a 13 amp fuse is used instead of a 3 amp. When the bulb blows instead of taking out the fuse it takes out the circuit board in the hood.

You can just resolder the track on the board and it should work again.

The wall switch thing that it's wired to is a 13 amp fuse, which a multimeter shows is still working (and I even swapped the fuse for another of the same type anyway before I checked if the fuse was actually blown just in case). It was wired up by an electrician so I would assume all the fuses would be the correct ones.

 

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Put your phone inside the hood and take a photo of the bulb sockets. I wonder if there's some damage from arcing. I just had exactly the same thing happen a few weeks back. Removed the bulbs and one of them was pretty much melted!

I removed the bulbs and the extractor is now working but looks like I will have to get another hood.

I just checked and there doesn't seem to be any damage although when it blew it was enough to shatter the glass of the bulb. I tried to remove the bulbs and then turn on the fan but still no luck.

I'd bet that there is a fused spur then a socket fitted around or behind the cooker hood that is connected to the fused spur.

You'll need to check the fuse in the cooker hood plug, as this is probably the one that would blow first

From what I remember when the cooker hood was installed, the wire from the fused spur comes out the wall just above the cooker hood fan and I can't remember (nor can I get a visual of) if the wires were directly connected to the cooker hood or if there was some sort of connector/socket between the two.