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Chints not something we've been asked for before. MK and Hager are our most popular and reliable brands along with Wylex. Sometimes it better the devil you know. Plus as the others have stated the aforementioned brands aren't going to cost much more and in some cases less than the Chints. We have a whole selection of CU's available if if you wanted to take a look plus through September as forum members you can get and extra 5% off with code "FORUMFIVE". Cheers, Ivan
 
Stick to Hager. Pretty much the only brand where the MCB's sit completely vertical with no effort.

FFS HOW HARD IS IT! Sparks been moaning about this since the dawn of time!
 
The only brand to fit vertical is Crabtree Starbreaker as they plug onto the busbar with no need for a screw motion to fit it.
 
Hager and Crabtree Starbreaker boards remain my first choice.
 
I like Schneider, mainly due to the fact that's what most of our customers want as a lot of their old systems were built around Merlin Gerin.

However we do see a lot of Chint being used as well as Proteus due to cost, IMHO they should be burnt at the stake...

And someone really loves Chint on the end of suite DC supplies... 60 ways in each rack so down to cost.

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They are absolutely identical to MCG is you have ever bought them from CEF if that gives you an idea, produced in the same place and everything breaker were a perfect match
 
I'm pretty certain that Chint and MCG are thrown out of the same factory. I've spent the last two years stripping plastic Chint DB's out of installations that were being done by a cowboy spending the least and working the least. I know that sounds like a good business model, but you have to install appropriate equipment and install it in an appropriate manner, this rubbish did neither. So, when I see Chint, I think of that guy.
 
The MD of one factory firm, where I do a lot of work, has me doing work at his house. They had an extension built, electrics done via the main contractor's spark. Really top notch looking kitchen with quite a large Lutron lighting control system....the beez neez ,as far as they were concerned, and cost a fortune. He asked me over to do a small job and asked my opinion. I said 'let's have a look at the CU. Previously, I'd installed RCBO's in the exiting Hager board. It had been replaced with a large Chint double RCD board.

The RCBO's taken out were worth more than the new board. Pure cheek!

...but it worked ok, so where's the problem?:(
 
Have to say, at ÂŁ16 ea inc VAT for CHINT rcbos I am a fan.
Their boards aren't the best, but neither is anything else these days.
Even my old favorite of choice MEM Memshield 2 has gone downhill since Memshield 3 came out. Havells (India) do boards that are in every way Identical to the old Memshield 2 range and no wonder, MEM's Design Engineer left to go and work for them because he was disgusted at how the beancounters had pared down the quality of the new Memshield 3 range.
Square D/Schneider? Nice, but overpriced for what they are. Have you seen how little copper there is in modern CUs compared to an old Wylex BS3036 board?
Makes one wonder what all the expense of these new boards is all about.
Less for more seems to be the new maxim.
 

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