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    Tails inside consumer unit bare copper, not terminated correctly - C1 or C2 ?

    Ok, I'm in the middle of an EICR for a client. The tails are going into the consumer unit in separate holes (It's metal, so that's against the regs), and then inside the consumer unit they have been terminated in a really shoddy way with bare copper showing. Now copper showing on the tails is a...
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    Two RCD's on same circuit - Test failed

    Never thought of that. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. There's quite a bit of work at this particular house on top of the summer house supply, so the owner is quite happy to replace the garage consumer unit if it becomes necessary, or at the very least switch out the RCD incomer...
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    Two RCD's on same circuit - Test failed

    Hi, quick question before I start ripping a customers Consumer Board apart. Called out to a simple job of installing electric supply to a summer house. Nothing major being used in the garage or planned to be in the summer house and is only 10m from the house so was happy to extend the radial...
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    Can you have more than one socket on a cooker circuit ?

    I've been trying to locate anything in the regs that say this can't be done, but can't see anything. Basically I have a 3kw oven on a 4mm T&E cable going to a 32A MCB (Cable is clipped direct in loft to consumer board, and not covered by anything en-route - property is a bungalow). The isolator...
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    Can you extend meter tails inside a consumer unit ?

    Found what this board SHOULD look like. I'm just wondering if I should just get one of these, rip the inards out of both, and put the inards of this one into the one in the wall, and not faff about trying to rewire or understand the mess.
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    Can you extend meter tails inside a consumer unit ?

    Oh my word - how did I miss this, I can see the reason for the 2nd main switch !! See photograph below. I'm right the far right MS2100 switch is connected the wrong way round, and the tails are then connected in reverse to the middle main switch to correct the polarity, which is why I didn't...
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    Can you extend meter tails inside a consumer unit ?

    I'll check with regards how much I can pull through. I've just noticed something in my original photographs, that I hadn't considered. If this MS2100 main switch was originally on the left of the board, then the connections on the bottom would be Neutral to the left, and Line to the right to...
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    Can you extend meter tails inside a consumer unit ?

    That's not a bad thought. Can anyone remember the name of the smaller Henley blocks, those might fit better.
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    Can you extend meter tails inside a consumer unit ?

    ...and why would I want to do that ? Well, I'm faced with a real botch job of a consumer unit. Essentially this is a "new" consumer unit only put in a couple of years ago by a friend of the clients family who was apparently an electrician. However the unit they bought (a Niglon) had the main...
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    Relocating a Consumer Unit

    That's a possibility, as its on the outside wall. I'm due to complete the EICR in a couple of weeks so I'll know for sure what I'm facing.
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    Max Zs multiple boards

    Great, thanks for the explanation, I did wonder if I needed to treat the connection between the boards as essentially it's own radial circuit
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    Max Zs multiple boards

    Had a bit of a brain freeze. Got to go and do an inspection on a property with 2 consumer units, the 2nd fed from the first on a 50A MCB. Let's say theoretically I get 0.2 for the Ze on the main board, then 0.3 for the Zdb at the second board and 0.2 for R1+R2 on a ring final on a 32A MCB. Is...
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    Relocating a Consumer Unit

    Sorry not the greatest of pictures, but all that is in the lounge of the house, the front door is about a foot off to the right, and all contained in a wooden cupboard.
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    Relocating a Consumer Unit

    It's been asked a thousand times I know, but nothing quite matches what I have to work with. Ok, it's a 1950's ish house, 2 bed terrace, so very small. The incoming tails, meter and current consumer board are in a small cupboard in the lounge by the front door. The consumer board is tiny, only...
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    GFCI's and RCD's

    I'm sure this is something that someone has come across, but anyhow. Been asked to install an inflatable hot tub for a client. They already have a summerhouse with its own CU which is connected back to the house via a 6mm SWA to a Henley block tapped off the incoming tails. There is an RCD in...

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