Thread: Does retrofitting mcbs into an older wylex "fuse wire" consumerunit need notification?
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Default Does retrofitting mcbs into an older wylex "fuse wire" consumer unit need notification?
on 29/01/2018, Johnny B Good supposed :
Quite frankly imo, the use of MCBs in a domestic setting has always
looked like "A solution in search of a problem". ELCBs/RCBOs less so
since they bring earth leakage protection against the risk of
electrocution to the table. I see no benefit in replacing plug in fuses
with plug in MCBs in a domestic CU since they offer no greater protection
than a fuse, only the convenience of making a potentially hazardous
circuit live once more.

Well, why bother with cars, when a horse and cart worked so well for
millenia?
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