On 24/03/2019 09:52, ARW wrote:
On 24/03/2019 00:17, John Rumm wrote:
On 23/03/2019 09:23, ARW wrote:
On 22/03/2019 20:18, wrote:
On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 11:29:13 PM UTC, ARW wrote:

If you go ahead with it I'll post a few more tips than the wiki
article
about real life CU swaps.

I'd be interested in that anyway if you have the time? Would it be
worth adding to the article?


John or NT usually add anything worthwhile I post to the wiki.

So here are a couple of tips that would apply if I had more than 2
hours to swap a CU!

OK I have woven some extra stuff into the existing article based on
these comments.



Anyone one else (including yourself) got any other tips?

I generally get a couple of hours to swap a CU (plus time to test). It
usually takes me 90 minutes to prep it up and mount the board with the
cables where I want them. The last 30 minutes is fitting the live,
neutrals and MCBs or RCBOs.



Possibly - for us (or at least this one) slow coaches what take a /lot/
longer - fill a flask and cook the bacon before you start?

I suppose there'd need to be a new category of "only if you are
terminally slow" to mention that if you happen to have an isolating
switch after the meter, spare tails, a Henley block and space to
relocate the old CU with one or two circuits temporarily it's possible
to work with the comforts of home - and of course the frisson of
managing 2 sets of tails, 2 main switches, ....


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