Powerline and RCD

[chrislip]

Hi all

I have recently moved house and the router is now downstairs next to the TV. Rather than running cable through the house and having the wife moaning at me I was looking at getting some powerline adapters, especially as they are only £30 now https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-032-TP

I have read that these sometimes have problems in houses with modern electrics as the RCD breakers can interfere with the current. DO you know if this is the case or am I worrying about nothing?

 

[Stanners]

It should be fine. A RCD monitors phase to neutral imbalance by passing the live and neutral conductors through a current sensing coil. As homeplugs send the signal via the frequency I would not imagine a problem.

But I maybe wrong

 

[Mel_P]

I have 2 RCDs on different circuits / fuseboards and Homeplugs won't work from one circuit to the other. As long as the sockets are on the same "fuseboard" (in old language) it works OK.