Mk dual rcd boards

[Dcf]

Yet another faulty rcd on one of these babies.
This time taking 300 ms to trip out at x1.
That's 2 in a row mk and a 100 mile round trip to swap it over
Whatever sweatshop u use in china get it sorted or nobody will buy ur ##### products anymore.Market leader my ####.can u tell I'm angry?

 

[telectrix]

time to try BG CUs. they're reight price, MK no longer got respect.

 

[Octopus]

100 mile round trip - ouch, this is not the type of product failure you want!

 

[Engineer54]

Yet another faulty rcd on one of these babies.
This time taking 300 ms to trip out at x1.
That's 2 in a row mk and a 100 mile round trip to swap it over
Whatever sweatshop u use in china get it sorted or nobody will buy ur ##### products anymore.Market leader my ####.can u tell I'm angry?

Believe me, ....it's not just MK RCD devices that have failures, They are common across the manufactures board. In fact far more common than the manufactures will ever admit too.

 

[Dcf]

Should have stuck to hager.the rep will b summoned for the hairdryer treatment make no mistake.what is it with previously good brands turning to absolute cack in the last couple of years ?

 

[Engineer54]

Should have stuck to hager.the rep will b summoned for the hairdryer treatment make no mistake.what is it with previously good brands turning to absolute cack in the last couple of years ?

??? What's a Rep going to be able to do about it?? He just sells the stuff... Even if he was an engineer in his own right, he still wouldn't be held responsible for any failures... Hager RCD kit is just as vunerable to failure, as any other manufacturer!!!

 

[Dcf]

Can't say I've ever had a faulty hager one 54.unlike mk.

 

[telectrix]

and we rip out gear that's been made to a quality rather than a price and replace it with cak.

 

[Des 56]

MucK and Craptree are not what they were any more

 

[PC Electrics]

I've been using Hager for about 3 years now and have never had a single RCD or RCBO failure. What's more they are made in France and Germany - where they understand the basics behind EOL QC.

And they are readily available, so there should be no need for 100 mile trips to change one. And reasonably priced. And backwards compatible with older gear.

 

[Dcf]

totally agree pc. hager is one of the better thought out brands out there just now.
mk is down there with electriciums finest in my eyes n what a disaster that was as well.there is a mk split board on a shelf in my laboratory for spares, about 20 year old that would outlast any of todays cack thats for sure

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Should have stuck to hager.the rep will b summoned for the hairdryer treatment make no mistake.what is it with previously good brands turning to absolute cack in the last couple of years ?

Its the relentless rise of the machine: the shaky quality production machine that is china mate and its appealing wage structure and dubious health n safety policy.....very attractive to so called Quality manufacturers/household names etc...........

 

[Dcf]

suppose its all to do with cost these days.put it this way an old square edge mk logic socket was about a fiver 20 year ago. the equivalent is now about £4. iknow what one out of the 2 will last the pace.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I`v got a loads of new MK 1, 2 and 3 gang switch fronts in storage at home and i dont like the terminations on em at all...neither do i like the way that if you are a bit too handy tightening the terminations it knackers the mechanisms on em n all.....seen better........

 

[richy3333]

Believe me, ....it's not just MK RCD devices that have failures, They are common across the manufactures board. In fact far more common than the manufactures will ever admit too.

Does anyone know if there are any published reports about this - would make interesting reading?

Have to say I try and get customers to pay for Hager, as to date I've never had a problem with them as a make

 

[Engineer54]

Does anyone know if there are any published reports about this - would make interesting reading?

Have to say I try and get customers to pay for Hager, as to date I've never had a problem with them as a make

There was a report published, can't honestly remember who by, but it was an institution that is commercially funded by the very manufacturers it was going to be reporting on,....and not a non-biased publicly funded institution. What a load of old codswallop that was!! It was actually trying to convince the reader, that failures were so low it wasn't worth worrying about. In the most part blaming homeowners not pushing the test button regularly. The reports total number of devices it based it's conclusions on was again so low, i don't know how they had the cheek to come out with the final conclusions. You could drive a bus through the holes in this so-called report!!


Far better i think to go on personal experiences, and even genuine reports such as the OP of this thread. How many times have we seen this on the forum, ....it's like not a day goes by, without a thread concerning an RCD failure of one kind or another is seen here.
The last project i was involved with, the contractor was returning failed RCD devices of all types in box loads, and all went through the company test lab prior to being returned too... These weren't your budget type devices either, but top of the range stuff by one of the most respected manufacturers of electrical equipment...

 

[brucelee]

I`v got a loads of new MK 1, 2 and 3 gang switch fronts in storage at home and i dont like the terminations on em at all...neither do i like the way that if you are a bit too handy tightening the terminations it knackers the mechanisms on em n all.....seen better........

yeah mate i too have found MK sockets and switch terminals on the new logic range to be very poor indeed out of the 6 double sockets i ftted had to take back 3 as the N terminal would not terminate correctly and as you say when i tried to apply pressure because the slots are notdeep enough then it strips first and alst time i will use them

BG sockets i bought as replacements were a lot more durable

when we were on site we used hager baords and legrand sockets and they never gave any problems