Stuck Electrical switches on Control Panel

Hi, we have a Ford Ravenna Auto Sleeper , and some of the switches on the control panel have jammed,can anyone help as to what i should do and where to replacement switches. It is a Ford Transit base with a Ravenna body 2002 2400cc 350TDI many thanks......Ritchie

Unfortunately Autosleepers changed the make/model of control panel on a very regular basis, so one Ravenna may have a different panel compared to another Ravenna made only weeks earlier or later.

If you say what make/model of panel you have, someone may be able to advise but without that info it's not so likely - photos of the panel would be helpful if you don't know what you have.

Some control panels of around that time have (IIRC) switches with circuit breakers built into them, and I would imagine that these will be a lot harder to find replacements for. If they are just conventional rocker switches it should be relatively easy (though a bit surprising that you have several that are broken, as they are normally very reliable).

Can you post a picture of the switches?

Hi yes i made a mistake of not posting photo so will do so now, its the red switches which are causing the problem now, the orange ones are ones that have been used to replace the red ones, i do think the orange ones are not right but their you are :-
Ritchie

So from your other thread, this is the photo of the panel:



It seems (from the splitting of the panel surface) that four of the six original switches have been replaced. The thing that would worry me is whether whoever did the replacement has fitted additional fuses. The original switches are combined switch and circuit breaker - if these are replaced with just a switch and no fuse there is significant risk of damage to the wiring and possibly risk of fire.

Assuming that issue has been addressed, the replacement of the switches should not be too difficult, as companies like CPC/Farnell stock a huge range of switches like this, and it should not be hard to find ones that are an exact fit (unlike the ones that have been put in, which appear to be too narrow and so won't sit exactly vertical). It would be good to try to replace them with switch/circuit breakers like those originally fitted, though IIRC that type are no longer made - so that may not be possible.

Incidentally, I do not know that switch specifically, but some switched circuit breakers are designed so that they will jam in the off position if there is a short circuit on their output when you try to turn them on. It would be worth confirming that this is not the case with yours, because if it is (and there is a short present) you would be replacing a switch that is not actually faulty.

[Edit: Having looked at CPC it seems that the panel may have been fitted with Schurter circuit breakers in place of the original ones with Reset button. This would be worth confirming but, If so and the rating is correct, there should be no need for additional fuses]

Thanks everyone for your help will sort them out this weekend