Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in CU?

[HappyHippyDad]

I shall be changing a CU soon (same thread as just started!) and it is a TT.

I'll be using a wiska sprint gland to hold the tails (25mm) and main earth in place as they enter the CU (from the bottom) but I dont really see how this is going to help with respect to the possibility (however remote) of the tails coming loose in the CU and making contact with the CU.

I can just feel Lee's fingers hovering above the key board ready to shout 'hagar!!' , however, I have a wylex board to install without pre-equipped tail holders.

Any ideas for holding the tails in place as they enter the main switch, just like the clips in the hagar board? I expect something could be used, cable cleats etc, but I'm also wondering if there is an actual product for this specifically?

Perhaps this is a little over the top, but It is a bit odd that it is all of a sudden ok to fit a metal board for a TT so I would like to do as much as possible to (within budget - customer doesn't want extra expense of a seperate s type RCD as isolator) keep safe.

 

[telectrix]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

how can that RCD as main switch protect the incoming tails? a fault on those tails is going to be before the RCD.

 

[Midwest]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

Might be wrong, but I think the idea is to protect the single insulate cables between S type and 30ma RCD shorting inside CU, that being the 'grown ups' idea. Damaged to tails, is negated by suitable gland.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

Love the visible copper in the manufacturer's conductors.

 

[mattg4321]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

Love the visible copper in the manufacturer's conductors.

That annoys me with the Hager boards. I normally cut it back slightly so no visible copper.

 

[Clive P]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

Hi,

You can buy the tails clamp ( Hager ) for a tenner, don't know if it will fit your board though. Looks like they just screw to the backplate, but I've never used one so I am only guessing

Regards.

 

[telectrix]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

notjust hager. most makes are even worse.

 

[Midwest]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

notjust hager. most makes are even worse.

Concur with that. Installed an MK CU last week, and my search light head torch, reflected off the exposed shiny copper , into my milk bottle glasses. Thought it was the crack of doom.

 

[telectrix]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

nope. the crack of doom is here:

 

[Leesparkykent]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

nope. the crack of doom is here:

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That's one unlucky saddle

 

[Midwest]

Re: Any good ideas for holding the tails (clips etc) as they enter the main switch in

That looks like a saddle-less bike.