Most recent board change.......

[Hellmooth]

Came across this today, made me wonder what profession the installer was from!

 

[FatAlan]

Australian perhaps?

 

[sparksburnout]

methinks he's winding you up. who would have fitted a metal CU over 10 years ago? bet you he's done it himself within the last 6 months.

Defo, nobody is that bad, my missus could fit one better than that. Hes winding us up.

 

[sparksburnout]

The important thing is, did it have the correct labels on the front? All OK if so.

 

[Wilko]

Australian perhaps?

Too neat, it's a dead giveaway.
(I trained there )

 

[Pat H]

it doesn't look 10 years old for sure. Re upside down. Maybe an Australian Sparky did it?

 

[Midwest]

it doesn't look 10 years old for sure. Re upside down. Maybe an Australian Sparky did it?

Somebody has already done that one.

 

[telectrix]

it's actually a better design. by supplying the MCBs from the top, gravity will help the electrickery flow faster.

 

[stevethesparks]

I bet the tails were too short to go in their correct position so they fudged it to suit.

 

[telectrix]

what it boils down to is that you'd be a complete moron to do any work on that abortion of an installation without putting all the problems right.

 

[uksrevivor]

Are you sure your camera was the right way up when you took the pics LOL

 

[NDG Elecs]

I was working on a 16th edition GE board the other day. Absolutely lovely rock solid board with no twisting of the breakers. The plastic enclosure was easily as solid feeling as any new-fangled AMD3 metal board. And I do wish the manufacturers would bring back the solid neutral and live link bars on domestic boards. The fine stranded sheet we have nowadays is carp.

 

[telectrix]

might be a rock solid board, but wired by an italian. all that spaghetti

 

[Dave OCD]

Yep rough as..... Those boards were well constructed but a pain with the neutral bars down the sides, on a board change you'd usually find the existing neutrals were too short to reach.

 

[NDG Elecs]

Yeah fair point there Dave. But just look at the size of that din rail!

 

[Dave OCD]

Yeah I think the Mcbs just located at the top on the rail and were held in place by the busbar at the bottom ?