Wylex dis boards

[jonthesparks]

I have come across this situation a few times and need some advice . The old wylex boards with re-wirable fuses can be changed to Mcb's really easily , would it be better to change the entire board .is changing the fuses to breakers considered to be renewing the board ?any one got advice?

 

[Octopus]

I'd not offer changing a rewireable fusebox to the MCB option, most customers want a fuseboard change to one with RCD's

 

[jonthesparks]

I assume you dont work for wylex , but why do you think wylex would offer this option ?

 

[nickblake]

It does depend which wylex boards you are talking about , 3036 rewireable fused boards still comply with the regs , how ever work requiring RCD protection will require an aditional board ,as RCD's dont fit the old boards and you cannot install an RCD to cover the whole board , also some of the wylex boards the early ones have a wooden frame at the back which can be a fire hazard if the board developes a fault within the board , this is quite common , another no no is with the wylex boards if you install minature MCB's in the board and the fuse cover is not adjusted to fit then you are exposing live parts so care should be taken , i always recommend that a customer upgrades to a new board mainly for added protection and easy of resetting tripped mcb's compaired to rewiring a fuse

 

[telectrix]

for a 6 way board the MCBs to replace the 3036 fuses cost about £65 - £70. for virtually the same money you can get a dual RCD board, fully loaded. pointless excercise fitting breakers in old board. bit like fitting the titanic with disc brakes