The expression trip the fuse has gone out of fashion.
Trip switch old fuse box.
If your fuse switch has tripped after you ve been using a lot of appliances in one room you ve likely overloaded the circuit.
That is when houses had little lead and ceramic bars.
Modern electric circuits are fitted with a circuit breaker fuse system.
The simple answer is to unplug some of them and move the tripped fuse switch in your fuse box back to the on position.
Turn off and unplug the appliance before resetting the switch.
If a fault develops a switch is tripped and the circuit is broken.
In the case of loss of electric light or power your fuse box or consumer unit will either have fuses or trip switches.
If the switch trips again you ll know it s the last appliance that you plugged in and switched on.
Unplug all of your appliances and try resetting the fuse switch.
I noticed that he had 1 fuse that was a trip switch looks like an mcb.
Once reset plug your appliances back in one at a time and switch them back on.
The little bars were then replaced with fuses which were easier to change when they melted and then came the electrical panel with various levers.
Older ones have fuse holders and when a fuse is blown it must be replaced or rewired.
Does anyone know where i can find these as i would like to change them all and i don t want to buy a new consumer unit.