**Show Us Your Installs!!!**

[Spudnik]

Right chaps,

Due to a few unavoidable issues, we have lost the original thread and pics etc.

Sorry about that!!!

So, if you want to re-upload your pics then great, if not, give us something new!


Cheers!!

 

[Robotstar5]

Neat job, I have a love/hate relationship with cage clamp terminals, we use them a lot in the panels at work. Sometimes they work perfectly, other times can be a real pig to release/insert cables.

 

[SparkyDips]

.......was just messing handy, looks spot on mate very nicely done!

:tongue3:

 

[HandySparks]

Neat job, I have a love/hate relationship with cage clamp terminals, we use them a lot in the panels at work. Sometimes they work perfectly, other times can be a real pig to release/insert cables.

Yes, I'd not used these ones before. I used one of the proper tools (just a flat blade screwdriver, really) to open up the clamps. This was necessary for all the old stranded cable and easier for the modern single strand cable. There's definitely a knack to it, getting easier as you get used to exactly how hard to push and which way to lever to open the clamps.

I tried removing the cable from one or two and found it very difficult, so maybe I need more practice.

 

[HandySparks]

i can see one problem with this...................

Actually, there was one thing that concerned me; running cable behind the DNO's meter backboard. I've seen it done loads of times, but there's a risk of damage to the cables from over-long woodscrews fixing the meter, etc to the board. Anyone come across a real problem with this?

 

[Superspark23]

A very neat job, one thing that concerned me a bit is the din rail earthed? in the junction box? and why not use a bigger fuse board? You should be allowing for future expansion of the installation, i'm certain in the regs it states a maxium of 70% should be used on a new installation. other than this a really neat job.

 

[Jdsparky]

There's an expensive spare in the shape of an rcbo though, should be two really but oh well.

 

[Jimsparky]

Control panel

This is a panel for grow lights in a greenhouse. Designed and built by us, I shall post some pics of the install as it progresses.

 

[Lucas]

Only thing I didn't like was socket's labelled north and south, not seen it done before but could make things potentially confusing for someone with no sense of where north is (ME!!!)

And in regards to meter tail's, what's the problem with keeping both inner and outer sheath the same length? I have always done it like that, I wrap a bit of blue or brown tape around the live or neutral

 

[Amp David]

A very neat job, one thing that concerned me a bit is the din rail earthed? in the junction box? and why not use a bigger fuse board? You should be allowing for future expansion of the installation, i'm certain in the regs it states a maxium of 70% should be used on a new installation. other than this a really neat job.

Earthed DIN rail, every manufacturer who use metal rails in their insulated CUs must be at fault too then.

 

[alarm man]

Re: Control panel

This is a panel for grow lights in a greenhouse. Designed and built by us, I shall post some pics of the install as it progresses.

nice work that,self punched holes by the looks too,thats a skill on its own...

 

[Jimsparky]

Cheers, yeah I was taught old school ! I think the end results always nicer that way !

 

[Jimsparky]

Refrigeration install

Little install I did in London a few weeks ago.

 

[Strima]

Those cable ties don't seem to be flush cut... I get a slap for things like that... :lol:

 

[alarm man]

Those cable ties don't seem to be flush cut... I get a slap for things like that... :lol:

the ty'ers arnt equal spacings,that might seem a bit ocd,but i cant help it..and the isolator is around a mil and a half out to the left....:wink5: ive checked the cooker for the 30th time i did switch it off..:dizzy2:

 

[HandySparks]

A very neat job, one thing that concerned me a bit is the din rail earthed? in the junction box? and why not use a bigger fuse board? You should be allowing for future expansion of the installation, i'm certain in the regs it states a maxium of 70% should be used on a new installation. other than this a really neat job.

Thanks. The number of ways was determined by the customer, my Dad, who's a retired electrical engineer and I wasn't going to persuade him otherwise! They've done all the additions they want in that house (small extension) and are happy with one spare only. The spare way was to be blanked, but the supplier of the RCBOs sent a 30A instead of the 20A, so he decided to leave it in there rather than return it. The most likely use for the spare way would be for charging an electric car, but they've no specific plans.

As far as the unearthed DIN rail goes, the point's been answered. If it's OK for the CU manufacturers, it's OK by me. After all, it's only accessible with the cover removed.