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Tim S writes:
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I bought them from trade counters; IIRC, a combination of
ERD (who stocked most things but wouldn't order anything else
except in box quantities), and Gibbs & Dandy (who didn't stock
much of the range, but would order anything even singularly).

Is that ERD in Luton? Found Gibbs and Dandy - branch in Slough. I'm near
T Wells in Kent so it's not a million miles and worth knowing they can
source stuff. Thanks for that.

I thought ERD were all over the place (at least in the South East - I
think they are also known as Edmundson Electrical), but strangely enough,
it was one of the Luton ones, the one on North Luton Industrial Estate.

Well, nadger me doobries - now I have their full name, have located branches
in T Wells and Tonbridge. Never noticed them so they must be raund the back
of all the places I normal frequent. Thanks - will look in on them.

The other Luton one (near Screwfix) specialises in other makes, but has
some more common MEM bits. It was also the Luton Gibbs & Dandy.

The RCBOs you see there are all made up by me from MCBs and
RCBO pods. The RCBO pods were under £50 each (might have been
more if I was buying just one), and the MCBs well under £10
each (I tend to ignore the price of those).

Ah. Just looked at memonline.com harder. I found the RCD for DP MCBs, the
MR30. Just re-read it and the MR30 pod seems to do SP too - is that the
one you used?

Yes.

Be careful with the MCBs though. MEM do more than one range and it's
easy to get them mixed up. One is for these industrial boards (and
has a 10kA breaking capacity) and the other range is for domestic
boards and has a lower breaking capacity (probably 6kA). I don't
think the pods are intended to fit to the domestic breakers, but I
never tried.


Cheers - I noticed that too.

Thanks

Tim