what is your preferred brand of consumer unit?

[Aindowsimon]

Schneider by choice if I must Crabtree . And BG is good quality .

17th edition board is good enough in domestic situations as long as property is in good nick everything seems to have been installed to a good standard .
Rcbo set up is better compliance but as it can be considerably dearer ( in my experience ) I think rcbo set up will become the norm as prices will come down further witch they have considerably

 

[imago]

To be honest, I think that the whole nuisance tripping 'issue' is blown way out of proportion. Three or four years ago I fitted a new CU (Hager BTW) at home. In the time since there has not been one instance of an RCD tripping. An MCB tripped once for the kitchen lights when a GU10 popped.

Of the dozen or so people with whom I have regular contact and have 17th CUs fitted no one of them has mentioned or complained about nuisance tripping.

A board full of RCBOs is a more expensive alternative nothing more. There is a single supply, through a single fuse, feeding a single meter in most domestic properties. Any one of those fails and the lot goes down.

 

[spark 68]

Another thing with RCBOs (I have already mentioned it on here before, as have others) is that most are SP (the N is not switched) , so if you have a N-E fault on a circuit although that RCBO will trip you still have a N-E fault connected.

 

[trev]

Preferred brand of CU? It depends on what Davey the shoplifter at me local can get his hands on.

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Seriously though, Eaton.

 

[Rothko9]

Crabtree Starbreaker every time, stock all mcb's/rcbo's never been called back. Stick to one make so if I ever go back to do more work I already have the Mcb's. I also stock over 100 other mcb's!!
I cant fault these boards.
In the past I have tried all boards and have had various probs, one brand I havent been able to bring myself to try is Chint, my clients wouldn't entertain it!

This seems to be good advice. I always liked MK, bur as they seem to be forever changing their designs which are not retro compatible I think I might switch to the Schneider Easy 9s or the Starbreakers. Anybody used the Easy 9s?

 

[Silly Sausage]

Metal ones.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Thread is over a year old...

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Look for Wor Tony's cameo role in there!!

 

[LankyWill]

My favourite is hager fuseboards, easy to setup and mount. There's plenty of space to work with. The materials seems of good quality and they just work! They also looks very pretty[emoji1]

Just stay away from Wylex and MK load of rubbish!

If three phase board I like Schneider especially with the isobar system very intuitive.

 

[shanky887614]

This seems to be good advice. I always liked MK, bur as they seem to be forever changing their designs which are not retro compatible I think I might switch to the Schneider Easy 9s or the Starbreakers. Anybody used the Easy 9s?

go for acti 9.

there really nice boards

 

[Leesparkykent]

Proteus,GET,chint,LAP are the bee's knees haha

 

[glendeveronltd]

am i right in thinking volex and wylex is the same manufacturer im sure the guy in neweys told me a while back

 

[Brad1]

Hager or BG have always been nice boards for me on single phase or more commonly known as "Schinder" for TP&N boards.

 

[Dan]

Just bumping some threads in the Electrical Tools Forum, if it's not current topic just ignore it and it'll drop off the list, you're welcome to reply to it if it's still current topic though

 

[richy3333]

am i right in thinking volex and wylex is the same manufacturer im sure the guy in neweys told me a while back

Yep, one just catches fire quicker than the other