RCBOs - the wiggly blue madness!
If you were to fill a large consumer unit with RCBOs, it looks to me
like you'd have trouble fitting all the wires in, let alone connect the final circuits. Is there a knack to dealing with all the wiggly blue wires, or a best practice? Alternatively is there a make of CU that has more room inside? T |
RCBOs - the wiggly blue madness!
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If you were to fill a large consumer unit with RCBOs, it looks to me like you'd have trouble fitting all the wires in, let alone connect the final circuits. Is there a knack to dealing with all the wiggly blue wires, or a best practice? Alternatively is there a make of CU that has more room inside? T I'm in the process of ordering a Hager industrial Type A metal board (like this: http://www.sparksdirect.co.uk/hager-...d-p-14028.html But the 20way version ) It claims to be roomy. It's not an ugly board, but it's not very subtle either - mine's getting a wiring cupboard built around it anyway. I'll have mine in a couple of weeks - I can take photos if you can wait that long. Cheers Tim |
RCBOs - the wiggly blue madness!
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writes: If you were to fill a large consumer unit with RCBOs, it looks to me like you'd have trouble fitting all the wires in, let alone connect the final circuits. Is there a knack to dealing with all the wiggly blue wires, or a best practice? Alternatively is there a make of CU that has more room inside? I used MEM (now Eaton) Memshield2... http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/cu1.jpg http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/cu2.jpg Bags of space inside. Very nice consumer units to work with. Probably not cheap compared with domestic consumer units. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
RCBOs - the wiggly blue madness!
"Andrew Gabriel" wrote in message ... In article , writes: If you were to fill a large consumer unit with RCBOs, it looks to me like you'd have trouble fitting all the wires in, let alone connect the final circuits. Is there a knack to dealing with all the wiggly blue wires, or a best practice? Alternatively is there a make of CU that has more room inside? I used MEM (now Eaton) Memshield2... http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/cu1.jpg http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/cu2.jpg Bags of space inside. Very nice consumer units to work with. Probably not cheap compared with domestic consumer units. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] Hi All, welcome to electrics, micky |
RCBOs - the wiggly blue madness!
I used MEM (now Eaton) Memshield2... http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/cu1.jpg http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/cu2.jpg Bags of space inside. Very nice consumer units to work with. Probably not cheap compared with domestic consumer units. I liked the way that example had a box before the CU which reduced the number of wires in the CU. Wd that be OK in a domestic installation so long as there is (as in your example) no gap between the 2 boxes (and of course the singles are rated to cope)? -- Robin |
RCBOs - the wiggly blue madness!
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"neverwas" writes: I used MEM (now Eaton) Memshield2... http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/cu1.jpg http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/cu2.jpg Bags of space inside. Very nice consumer units to work with. Probably not cheap compared with domestic consumer units. I liked the way that example had a box before the CU which reduced the number of wires in the CU. Wd that be OK in a domestic installation so long as there is (as in your example) no gap between the 2 boxes (and of course the singles are rated to cope)? That's simply because the wires weren't long enough after swapping the CU. I wouldn't do that if starting from scratch, although it's fine from the regulatory point of view. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |
RCBOs - the wiggly blue madness!
That's simply because the wires weren't long enough after
swapping the CU. I wouldn't do that if starting from scratch, although it's fine from the regulatory point of view. Thanks. I asked as I've faced just that situation; and what you had done seemed to me much neater and more flexible than crimping on bits of cable. -- Robin |
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