**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!!

 

[The Ranger]

when you refere to 100mm,is that suggesting they may/may not have to be 100mm from the work surface? sorry but i dint warn you all i ask lots of questions.Now you know how i feel when my 6 year old bombards me with a million and one questions a 5:30am that he already knows the answers to...sorry :90:

the 100mm would be a good working practice in the likes of a kitchen with a socket flushed into the wall 100mm off of a work top so the socked is usable without a small radius on a squished bit of flex, I can't say this is a REG in BS7671 but I'd hazard a guess it's not but some other documents may stipulate such as building regulations!

 

[Richard]

Out of interst, why did you opt to use a board full of RCBO's rather than a dual RCD board? Must have been a nightmare to terminate!!

 

[The Ranger]

so that if a fault occurs he only loses that circuit and not half the board

 

[Engineer54]

Out of interst, why did you opt to use a board full of RCBO's rather than a dual RCD board? Must have been a nightmare to terminate!!

A very sensible if not costly alternative to a dual RCD board. Your never going to be plagued with taking out numerous circuits when just one fails, or when you have problems with an RCD itself. ...I know what system i would prefer!! lol!!

 

[Cyberprog]

IIRC the Dado Rail is by Marshall Tufflex I use their Mono 10 product extensively, but have used the angled stuff before for work benches.

 

[Richard]

A very sensible if not costly alternative to a dual RCD board. Your never going to be plagued with taking out numerous circuits when just one fails, or when you have problems with an RCD itself. ...I know what system i would prefer!! lol!!

No doubt, and I quite aggree!!

however it was more the price of it I was thinking!! I get RCBO's for aobout 14 quid a peice, so I think you had 12 circuits, thats 168 quid there, as opposed to 50 quid for an MK Dual rcd DB.

But if the client was happy to pay for it, great!

 

[gottahugenoggin]

Out of interst, why did you opt to use a board full of RCBO's rather than a dual RCD board? Must have been a nightmare to terminate!!

i asked the same on page 8,he got the board nice and cheap,he's got another for sale if your interested?

 

[Engineer54]

IIRC the Dado Rail is by Marshall Tufflex I use their Mono 10 product extensively, but have used the angled stuff before for work benches.

Not just work benches. That pic i posted was a bit i had left over from installing in a kitchen for a friend early last year in Cyprus. That had just 2 socket outlets, one of them being behind the fridge/freezer. So totally useless for other appliances.

I fitted the stuff to the bottoms of the wall cabinets, as the walls, and worktops were both tiled!! came out looking quite good actually!! I've posted the kitchen pic before but if you want to see it i can always post it again...lol!!

 

[Engineer54]

i asked the same on page 8,he got the board nice and cheap,he's got another for sale if your interested?

Hager RCBO's 11 or 13 Euros at the wholesalers in Cyprus the last time i purchased one. But you can get cheaper too at around 8 or 9 Euros. But MG and ABB RCBO's are around the 30 Euro mark. ...All Plus the VAT of course!! lol!!

So it's still ''Rip Off Britain'' over there then!! lol!!

 

[Mr.Si]

Hager RCBO's 11 or 13 Euros at the wholesalers in Cyprus the last time i purchased one. But you can get cheaper too at around 8 or 9 Euros. But MG and ABB RCBO's are around the 30 Euro mark. ...All Plus the VAT of course!! lol!!

So it's still ''Rip Off Britain'' over there then!! lol!!

Right, that's it... I am gonna have to start an import business.

When I was in aiya napa or lefcosia earlier this year, i should have bought a whole load!

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[SparkyDips]

I did the board for a customer a while back who has a very busy house, kids running round etc, the board is like i said belts and braces but i discussed the options with the them and this is what they opted for.

As for terminating lol it was interesting

 

[Engineer54]

I did the board for a customer a while back who has a very busy house, kids running round etc, the board is like i said belts and braces but i discussed the options with the them and this is what they opted for.

As for terminating lol it was interesting

Hope you connected those functional RCBO earths in with the CPC of each circuit and not just lumped them together in there own earth terminal on the earth bar?? lol!!....

Also a perfect example of when to use crimped ferrules on all those neutral leads...lol!!

 

[SparkyDips]

Engineer54 give me some credit my man!! will get you a pic as soon as i can find the folder on my PC lol

agree with crimped ferrules, definatly needed on neutral and especially cpc fly leads off RCBO, so easy to tear through strands , i didn't have any on me when doing the install but will be popping back to do them.

 

[Engineer54]

Engineer54 give me some credit my man!! will get you a pic as soon as i can find the folder on my PC lol

agree with crimped ferrules, definitely needed on neutral and especially cpc fly leads off RCBO, so easy to tear through strands , i didn't have any on me when doing the install but will be popping back to do them.

OK, OK i will, i will ...lol!! But i can't tell you how many times i've seen that done!! lol!!

I even had to do that myself once, temporally anyway. The wholesaler gave me a split CU (had 3 old rewireable CU's to convert for him) shells, which i didn't notice at the time, that didn't have enough terminals on the earth bar and neutral bars, so had to wait for conversion kits... just as well i was doing a favour for a good friend, Anyway all got sorted eventually.. lol!!

 

[Bul]

Guys
Some brands have RCBOs without functional earths. Why not specify these ones?