"Owain" wrote in message
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| "Seri" wrote
| | Neutral link from bottom of RCD into second neutral bus bar
| | After following all that through I noticed that my neutral
| | from the socket was into the first neutral bus bar and not
| | the second.
| | I just shifted it over and voila, it all works...
|
| It is good practice to have the connections on the neutral and earth bars
in
| the same order as the circuits appear at the MCBs. If you get into that
| habit you're less likely to put a neutral on the wrong bar.
|
| Owain
|

Funilly enough, it was doing precisely this that caused my problems in the
first place!

It's a split load consumer unit but I had to manually split the main bus
bar, because I wanted most circuits to be RCD protected I split it so that
MCBs 1-5 were non RCD protected and 6-12 were.

The ring I wired in was for MCB 6 (RCD protected).

The Neutral bar for the non RCD side was for MCBs 1-6.

Hence how I made my mistake... Wired the new circuit into MCB 6, Earth Bus
Bar Point 6, Neutral Bus Bar Point 6...

Does mean now that I'll end up with some empty points on the non RCD Neutral
Bus and some points that are doubled up on the RCD protected side now...

Still, at least it's all working, I completed the ring and then used it to
plug the power tools into to start the rest of the work in that room, no
trips and a clean mains feed at last!

Thanks again for all your help folks.

Seri