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No idea why this has happened…
What’s the best way of fixing this? I’m thinking of buying a plastic blank to push in and cutting it to fit in?


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Its funny how every manufacturer makes circuits breakers, rcd's transformers etc to all be the same width... or multiples of the same width... Its like they were designed to be interchangable with each other...

oh but here comes BS7671.... no mixing and matching
 
Its funny how every manufacturer makes circuits breakers, rcd's transformers etc to all be the same width... or multiples of the same width... Its like they were designed to be interchangable with each other...

oh but here comes BS7671.... no mixing and matching

...and then all set busbar connections slightly differently.
 
I suspect (without any supporting evidence) that this may be a DIN (or other) standard.
Yeah… that’s why it’s called a DIN rail….
But why have a standard that everybody agrees to, that can physically be used together, but regs don’t permit it.


Sorry for sliding off subject.
 
Its funny how every manufacturer makes circuits breakers, rcd's transformers etc to all be the same width... or multiples of the same width... Its like they were designed to be interchangable with each other...

oh but here comes BS7671.... no mixing and matching

Mixing and matching is fine as long as the completed assembly is tested and certified to the relevant standards.
Yeah… that’s why it’s called a DIN rail….
But why have a standard that everybody agrees to, that can physically be used together, but regs don’t permit it.


Sorry for sliding off subject.

DIN rails and DIN standard modules are used for building up a whole world of things other than consumer units.
 

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