Phase (line) and Neutral both wires connected through RCD. |
It trips the circuit when there is earth fault current. |
The amount of current flows through the phase (line) should return through neutral . |
It detects by RCD. any mismatch between two currents flowing through phase and neutral detect by -RCD and trip the circuit within 30Miliseconed. |
If a house has an earth system connected to an earth rod and not the main incoming cable, then it must have all circuits protected by an RCD (because u mite not be able to get enough fault current to trip a MCB) |
RCDs are an extremely effective form of shock protection |