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[Octopus]

Went to look at a job with a builder mate today - took a look at the fuseboard.....

Interesting use of the RCD's - I'm no fan of having so many circuits on 1 RCD - especially if its all but the 2 showers.....

Leave as they are and just amend the circuits or rearrange to "improve"?

Thanks

 

[7029 dave]

3 rcd's then, never seen that before. Rearrange plenty of rcd's. lol

 

[Leesparkykent]

I take it is high integrity? could you strip it, lose one of the RCD's, rearrange the circuits and a few of the more critical circuits on the main switch side with RCBO'S?

 

[oracle]

Lose the RCD's fit RCBO's where needed and comply completely

 

[Leesparkykent]

Lose the RCD's fit RCBO's where needed and comply completely

That would be ideal but that would probably be around 180-200 notes on RCBO's alone. You could pick up an amendment 3 CU with 10 RCBO's for similar money.

 

[ED17]

Don't stick your finger in the right hand side

 

[Octopus]

It's my first day back today so didn't look inside but will do so when I go back on Tuesday. I didn't meet the client so can't judge their reaction to spending any more money than necessary.

I'm thinking about spreading the circuits across the 3 rcds!

 

[amlu]

used a 16 way compact RCBO board from SBS trade sales on my last job. lovely gear all tested up no problems. will come a bit cheaper without the metal box.

 

[oracle]

Sorry to say, Leesparky but there's no such thing as a 17th Edition CCU, much less an Amd 3 one. One size fits all doesn't work. How you configure your CCU to provide power safely depends on each individual installation.

With RCBO's as low as £20 you won't go to hundreds, fitting one for each socket circuit, bathroom circuits etc and breakers for the rest.

I find it strange that a customer will spend more on a TV than a CCU that protects his family from shock or electrocution and his home from fire. Nana won't fall down the stairs in the dark because the RCD protecting a fault on a ring also knocked out the stairwell light

 

[Leesparkykent]

Sorry to say, Leesparky but there's no such thing as a 17th Edition CCU, much less an Amd 3 one. One size fits all doesn't work. How you configure your CCU to provide power safely depends on each individual installation.

With RCBO's as low as £20 you won't go to hundreds, fitting one for each socket circuit, bathroom circuits etc and breakers for the rest.

I find it strange that a customer will spend more on a TV than a CCU that protects his family from shock or electrocution and his home from fire. Nana won't fall down the stairs in the dark because the RCD protecting a fault on a ring also knocked out the stairwell light

Ok if you want to be pedantic a CCU that is marketed as being amendment 3 compliant.

 

[Leesparkykent]

used a 16 way compact RCBO board from SBS trade sales on my last job. lovely gear all tested up no problems. will come a bit cheaper without the metal box.

SBS is my choice of board when it comes to domestic RCBO boards.

 

[kingeri]

Those Wylex boards don't have much room for fitting RCBOs anyway. If you're actually there to work on the final circuits themselves then I see nothing wrong with distributing the circuits logically amongst the existing RCDs. It would certainly be an improvement on how it is now!

 

[oracle]

Not being pedantic, it's a marketing ploy. Calling it that doesn't make it so. Do you have a 17th Edition, Part P multi function tester? They call them that, but there's no such thing. They may be built to a British standard, but it won't be BS7671 (Amd 3) That is the only 17th Edition in town

 

[oracle]

I quite agree Kingeri, I'm just proposing best practice which is being fully compliant

 

[Leesparkykent]

Not being pedantic, it's a marketing ploy. Calling it that doesn't make it so. Do you have a 17th Edition, Part P multi function tester? They call them that, but there's no such thing. They may be built to a British standard, but it won't be BS7671 (Amd 3) That is the only 17th Edition in town

Have a day off..........