Pictures of tidy domestic RCBO filled boards

[Chris Electron]

Hello,

Has anyone got any photo's of consumer units filled with RCBO's that look very tidy. Whenever I have a board that has say 10 ways of RCBO's it is always a struggle towards the end to make nice and neat. Would be great to see what other people do.

Reading past threads about cable ties in boards I tend to stay away from these. I know it looks neater but I hate coming to boards that you have to alter when there are a load of ties in there.

I have a 12 way RCBO board to do at the end of the week and really want to get it spot on.

The board I am doing is a Contactum which the client supplied. The neutral cable from each RCBO is very long. Do people normally cut these to size? If so do you put a ferrule back on the end of the cable?

Anyway would really appreciate some ideas.

Many thanks,

Chris.

 

[Aindowsimon]

To say racist is a bit much isn't it? , I find you get wot you give no matter where you go .
Plenty of English chose to move here to live can't be that bad

 

[MDJ]

To say racist is a bit much isn't it? , I find you get wot you give no matter where you go .
Plenty of English chose to move here to live can't be that bad

haha hook line and sinker hehe

 

[Aindowsimon]

I knew you loved it here really

 

[not clever]

One done a month or so ago.

 

[Aindowsimon]

Not clever love the mcb sized rcbo were do you get them and how much ?wot do you think of sbs? Never even heard of them

 

[Rockingit]

Where's the neutral bar??!

EDIT: Scrub that, just spotted the dual rail inlets.

 

[not clever]

They are fine & meet all the required BS/euro numbering for 61009's
They are as you see true DP isolating both line & neutral, they are compacts so are the same dimensions as your bog standard 60898 MCB.
The busbars are line & neutral, leaving loads of room in the enclosures as the neutral bar is not required.
They come in type B & C in the same size, ratings from 6A to 50A.
Cost £13.50 each
SBS will ONLY sell to trade & you have to be registered with a governing body (NICEIC or others), so unlucky Mr diy

Where can you get them........................now that would be telling & I cant tell here as they don't like the other forum being mentioned.

 

[Rockingit]

In fun and only in fun I would say to rockinit that when I was taught I was taught the largest load nearest the main incommer, LMAO, just kidding Rockinit, just kidding hehe

And I'd be in complete agreement! I can't quite remember now exactly what it was, but on all those boards (identical new-builds) they went into retirement bungalows and I think there was some sense in grouping the circuits in some way - I think maybe that 6A nearest the switch was for fire alarms and furthest away from the user? I seem to recall the 16&32 on the end were add-ons after the heating company messed up their Air Source specs (surely not, I hear you all cry....)

 

[trev]

I was also taught the same though I can't for the life of me remember why. It makes no sense really as the bus bar is rated the same all the way along it's length but as is the case with so many things, old habits die hard.

 

[davesparks]

I think I know the answer to this one

Once upon a time fuseboard didn't have busbars and you had to fit your own wire links between incoming supply and each fuse. So the heaviest loads were put at the beginning so that you could drop the cable size as you went along the fuses making the links.

 

[Brightspark2]

I got taught to do it too...

Was told it was to reduce heat along the buss bar by having the heaviest load closet to the main switch IIRC...

 

[Chris Electron]

Thankyou everyone for comments and photos.

 

[Aindowsimon]

I do it to , the higher rated circuit next to MS on domestic it's habbit , Iv heard some pick it up in eicr if not done that way!

but it can't really matter or 3phase boards could be tricky

 

[Engineer54]

i'm not one to boast , so i'll let my work do the talking.........

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;-)

So when did you work in the States/Canada then??? lol!!

That's typical of an American domestic lash up. If anything, it's quite neat compared to some that i've seen!!

 

[nickblake]

The RCBO'S are wonky :jester:
Good work !!!!

Have you tried to get a spirit level in them , oh BG do all i need now is for BG to do an RCBO with a spirit level and im sorted ,, Get all my BG boards from screw fix best prices round here non of the local suppliers will supply them aindowsimon