CU Install

[Mike Johnson]

This should provide some debate, Leyroy Merlin in France, a very large DIY store are offering a training session on how to install a CU: https://www.leroymerlin.fr/campus/c...el/poser-un-tableau-electrique-45-min-1h.html only takes an hour? discuss.

 

[Dustydazzler]

This should provide some debate, Leyroy Merlin in France, a very large DIY store are offering a training session on how to install a CU: https://www.leroymerlin.fr/campus/c...el/poser-un-tableau-electrique-45-min-1h.html only takes an hour? discuss.

no real issue with this ^^^

A diyer can go online tonight and watch 100 videos how to fit a gas boiler or install a fuse board

then first thing tomorrow morning go to the local screwfix / plumb centre and buy everything they need

 

[Julie.]

This should provide some debate, Leyroy Merlin in France, a very large DIY store are offering a training session on how to install a CU: https://www.leroymerlin.fr/campus/c...el/poser-un-tableau-electrique-45-min-1h.html only takes an hour? discuss.

No problem really, it's in French, so nobody will understand it.

 

[DefyG]

A diyer can go online tonight and watch 100 videos how to fit a gas boiler or install a fuse board

Agreed with Dustydazzler, its all on you tube or similar and a whole lot more for self training!!!

 

[ipf]

They're starting to catch up with our ideas then, are they?
Are they including a section on ring circuits?

 

[Mike Johnson]

I think the opposite may be the case on catching up with ideas, RCD's have been required to protect all circuits for the past fifteen years to my knowledge may be longer, we have only just caught up with that, maximum of eight circuits per RCD, I wonder when we will catch up with specialist radial circuits for appliances.

Had a quick look through the French Regulations and can't find anything that prohibits Ring Circuits except that only twelve sockets allowed on 2.5mm and eight on 1.5mm which would seem to make them pointless.

 

[telectrix]

They're starting to catch up with our ideas then, are they?
Are they including a section on ring circuits?

ring circuits??? they only just got round to removing the 3 reverse gears on their tanks. the nearest they' get to a ring is the ring of onions round their scrawny necks.

 

[nicebutdim]

Had a quick look through the French Regulations and can't find anything that prohibits Ring Circuits except that only twelve sockets allowed on 2.5mm and eight on 1.5mm which would seem to make them pointless.

Serious question, to which I don't know the answer.

What happens in the case of small appliances that would be fused at 3A in the UK? Are they supplied to the European market with a heavier flex, which is capable of withstanding the rating for a radial socket circuit? I can't imagine small appliances with 2.5mm2 flex, so there must be a simple solution that provides adequate protection.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Can't think of a small fixed appliance that would be fused too 3A, but things like extractor fans are normally supplied off a 6A MCB as one of the eight off an RCD.

 

[Pete999]

ring circuits??? they only just got round to removing the 3 reverse gears on their tanks. the nearest they' get to a ring is the ring of onions round their scrawny necks.

Not a fan then Tell? of the French that is.

 

[ipf]

Had a quick look through the French Regulations and can't find anything that prohibits Ring Circuits except that only twelve sockets allowed on 2.5mm and eight on 1.5mm which would seem to make them pointless.

Had a quick look through the French Revolution, myself.....that's when they put a ring around the Bastille. Way in front of us.
Vive la Republique....

 

[telectrix]

Had a quick look through the French Revolution, myself.....that's when they put a ring around the Bastille. Way in front of us.
Vive la Republique....

and then they chopped the heads off anyone with an IQ in double figures.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Just realised the flag on my Avata has changed to France automatically, I arrived yesterday, clever admin.

 

[Zerax]

I wonder why anything 'French' is not proper... like French cricket isn't proper cricket, or French knitting isn't proper knitting, French marigolds aren't even marigolds ! And I came across a 'French drain' the other day... and yes, you guessed it... it's not a proper drain, just a soak-away.

 

[Dustydazzler]

Can’t beat a bit of French bread with lots of butter...