electrium mcb recall ?

[John Bunning]

had a letter from electrium [wylex/crab/volex mcbs] .whats the crack.
apprecate any info advise before calling on all my customers and checking the mcbs
cheers jb

 

[morph]

you tell us , what did the letter say?

 

[Sintra]

Phone the number on the letter and register the number of properties that you have used these particular MCB's on.
They will send you an info pack out and basically you replace all of the affected MCB's and they pay you £75.00 per property if you are a registered contractor.
You then send the dodgy MCB's back to them.

 

[morph]

that recall was ages ago , are they still asking peopl to check? , or is this a new one?

 

[Sintra]

Indeed they are morph.

 

[pennywise]

got a letter today too

 

[daveede]

Hey

It was basically a manufacturing fault on the 6a, 10a & 16a breakers, afaik other sizes aren't affected, think the fault was that they were all made to break way to high & have a risk of burning

Afaik they are coving the cost to inspect all properties that may have them installed and you just need to check the serial number on the mcb and replace if it was from the bad batch

Google "electrium recall" for info

 

[John Bunning]

thanks guys

 

[AA410]

Hi all had a 16a wylex burnt out not long ago is this the problem ?

 

[morph]

most of my jobs were miles away and £75 WOULD NOT COVER the cost of travel and time and mcb , so i reported all jobs, so a local spark could do it, because of this i never got to see the dodgy batch numbers and so i have loads of van stock i am unsure of, does any one have the batch codes please?
thanks

 

[dazz]

Last four letters on breakers
6/10 amp:
RIRA
RTRA
RCRA
RHRA
RGRA
RERA
RARA
SRRA
SSRA

16Amp:
RIRA
RTRA
RCRA
RHRA
RGRA
RERA
RARA
SRRA

 

[morph]

thanks for that,
will check them out

 

[Sintra]

Neweys site gives details Electrium Recall Miniture Circuit Breakers & Consumer Units With MCB's Fitted

 

[morph]

thanks Sintra
think i saw that site before , but does not have batch numbers,

 

[timo1]

Interesting thread....just to be sure this is a second recall? Bit of a blow as I've got a couple of new Wylex boards which I bought a couple of months ago. Just spoke to Screwfix direct who didn't know anything. Off to Electrifix tomorrow I think. Thanks for posting.