CU Connected with breakers taken out first

[uksparks]

Hi,

Just thought id share my photos of a CU I finished, well almost finished today, just needs another 6A breaker and a couple of the circuits connecting in, but otherwise, its pretty much there! I am so please that I have discovered this new better way of connecting everything, it feels like the board is so much more spacious!

Please feel free to comment, I have hidden my name and details from the CU label as to not reveal my true identity, I don't want the world knowing who performs such shoddy work. And the date, I have dated it start of next month, various reasons...

Next week ill put a new contactor on for the top board above, and cut the paxolin in for the tails, tomorrow I am going to finish off putting the garage sockets in and garage lights so still have some more conduit to fit etc.




Any feedback much appreciated, oh you may notice I put a fire alarm isolator below, the light circuit with the smokes on ends there, then starts again to the smokes, just thought it was a cool touch, that ay you can see that the power is there for the smoke alarms etc, and you can isolate them all should you want to without killing the lights, over the top i know.

Oh i need to fit the emergency light above too, bugger it, forgot that!

 

[uksparks]

You say that, but I would rather make sure both earth bars have a good connection and that the case has a good earth too. I know fully what I'm doing just making sure it's well connected. I appreciate your comment but don't see what I've done there to be over the top particularly.

 

[Fast&Rough]

I think it's really neat , well done

 

[davesparks]

The earth bars are fixed in to the steel case, how much more of a secure connection do they need? The manufacturers would fit links if they were necessary.

Schneider even went to the trouble of issuing a press release to explain that it was unnecessary to do this in their boards which are set up in exactly the same manner.

What you've done to be over the top is wasted a couple of feet of good copper, add that up over the number of boards installed in a year and you are throwing money away.

There is obviously no safety issue with doing it, but it just makes me wonder about the installers knowledge when doing an inspection. The same as those damned 230volt stickers that keep turning up on CU's, obvious sign of someone who failed to understand the regulations.

 

[uksparks]

I have never put a 230v sticker on an enclosure, I do put them on things that are not so obvious to people though just so people are aware that there's mains voltage present.

I totally agree about the earth bars being connected to the chassis, it's over kill what I've done.