Name & age of this fuse box??

[Octopus]

Being doing a PIR today and came across this beauty - can somebody help me with its model/age etc?

I particularly liked the fact that there wasn't an earth bar and the earths had been twisted together, outside the CU and pushed into a choc block! Its a TNS system without an earth too, plus a partial rewire about 40 years ago has left a combination of rubber and PVC cabling too!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I've recently took out something similar which was from house built around 1965. I thought it was 1940's, but talking to the next door neighbour, he said they were all like it from new, and built between 63 and 66.

I always thought the ceramic carriers had gone a lot earlier, but it appears not - it's like houses built in the late 90's still had rewireable fuses, rather than RCD protected with MCBs -there are lots of houses like that here (Leicester), probably as a cost cutting measure, as I know I fitted RCD CUs from 1996, and they were around before then.

Its if the were compliant at the time of fitting (but i can imagine they would have been on there way out by then)........

 

[Engineer54]

BS 3036 rewirable fuses are compliable to this day, as far as i know. Whether you'll find a new BS 3036 CU incorporating RCD devices is another matter though!! ..lol!! But i will wait and stand to be corrected:tounge_smile:

 

[GLENNSPARK]

BS 3036 rewirable fuses are compilable to this day, as far as i know. Whether you'll find a new BS 3036 CU incorporating RCD devices is another matter though!! ..lol!! But i will wait and stand to be corrected:tounge_smile:

As i have posted on another thread eng. what you could do though is put a garage board with rcd on FIRST then into the BS3036 but it seams a dear way of doing it considering the price of new boards these days.lol..........

 

[telectrix]

As i have posted on another thread eng. what you could do though is put a garage board with rcd on FIRST then into the BS3036 but it seams a dear way of doing it considering the price of new boards these days.lol..........

if you're going to put the garage board in first, then it would make sense to utilise the MCBs in that board and not go through the 3036 at all.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

if you're going to put the garage board in first, then it would make sense to utilise the MCBs in that board and not go through the 3036 at all.

Yep. Makes sense. Should have thought of that BEFORE posting..lol.......