FIRST HOME - Help with new Consumer Unit

[telectrix]

i may be wrong here, not having used a starbreaker board for ages, but aren't some of thos busbar slots Neutrals for the D/P RCBOs?

 

[MerlinGremlin]

I,m more in the camp of post #50.

Your making it sound a bigger job than it actually is. Existing CCU is perfectly up-gradable.

Do what you want, I've only been doing Electrics for over 20 years, done an apprenticeship etc. What do I know, but don't come posting on here when you can't get it signed off because you have used a plastic board and not a metal clad one as per the regs but what the hell, just do what you want.

 

[MerlinGremlin]

i may be wrong here, not having used a starbreaker board for ages, but aren't some of thos busbar slots Neutrals for the D/P RCBOs?

Let him find out the hard way as he keeps telling us what he's doing even though he's not qualified, his polish electrician can determine that.

 

[Billsays]

i may be wrong here, not having used a starbreaker board for ages, but aren't some of thos busbar slots Neutrals for the D/P RCBOs?

No Tel, the supply Neutral is behind the load neutral, it is hard to see. its a bit clearer here...... Crabtree Starbreaker RCBO 32 Amp 30mA B32 Type B 32A 61/B3230 Older Style - Willrose Electrical - Discontinued & Obsolete Circuit Breakers - https://willrose-electrical.co.uk/product/crabtree-starbreaker-rcbo-32-amp-30ma-b32-type-b-32a-61b3230-older-style/?gclid=CjwKCAjwtdbLBRALEiwAm8pA5ZDMauaYMe_BlqLV2MECNxoemKx69FEYSnjLIpQ114Je94eN_O8APRoC1TgQAvD_BwE

I use starbreaker a lot!

 

[MerlinGremlin]

Aren't they obsolete the starbreaker rcbo's ?

 

[Billsays]

Do what you want, I've only been doing Electrics for over 20 years, done an apprenticeship etc. What do I know, but don't come posting on here when you can't get it signed off because you have used a plastic board and not a metal clad one as per the regs but what the hell, just do what you want.

Calm down mate, Ive been doing it a fair bit longer than you and know what i,m talking about.
The op is fishing on various sites for info........does the mystery polish electrician exist? I doubt it. I'm just debating whether the existing ccu can be re used.

No starbreaker are not obsolete.

 

[telectrix]

No Tel, the supply Neutral is behind the load neutral, it is hard to see. its a bit clearer here...... Crabtree Starbreaker RCBO 32 Amp 30mA B32 Type B 32A 61/B3230 Older Style - Willrose Electrical - Discontinued & Obsolete Circuit Breakers - https://willrose-electrical.co.uk/product/crabtree-starbreaker-rcbo-32-amp-30ma-b32-type-b-32a-61b3230-older-style/?gclid=CjwKCAjwtdbLBRALEiwAm8pA5ZDMauaYMe_BlqLV2MECNxoemKx69FEYSnjLIpQ114Je94eN_O8APRoC1TgQAvD_BwE

I use starbreaker a lot!

i stand corrected. just was looking at a couple of RCDs i have in stock from a strip-out. 2 porongs, but the N is separate so those 2 prongs must both be L's. if that makes sense.

 

[MerlinGremlin]

Calm down mate, Ive been doing it a fair bit longer than you and know what i,m talking about.
The op is fishing on various sites for info........does the mystery polish electrician exist? I doubt it. I'm just debating whether the existing ccu can be re used.

No starbreaker are not obsolete.

Sorry I thought you where the OP, my apologies, he just needs to sort it out with his electrician and stop posting on every forum under the Sun, again sorry, I've had a carp day with a carp CPN board that shouldn't even be allowed to be sold.

 

[Billsays]

Sorry I thought you where the OP, my apologies, he just needs to sort it out with his electrician and stop posting on every forum under the Sun, again sorry, I've had a carp day with a carp CPN board that shouldn't even be allowed to be sold.

No worries mate, it can get confusing who says what!

Can't stand those cheap boards, CPN, BG etc i think they are the reason Amendment three was introduced! Is CPN Citys own brand?

 

[suffolkspark]

in ref to post #75 yes but the 1 module ones fit. the bus bar is continuous in these boars, they had plastic inserts in the split load ones but this is a straight bar so nothing else in the board needs changing. lets face it its not going to get a certificate on anyway that's even if this polish electrician exists, I would much sooner a DIYer use that crabtree board over a new BG one as he's got a third more connections to potentially leave loose with his neon screwdriver!