Get your fuseboards out for the lads

[westward10]

See what happens when you do but yes your board was far better than the later one you put up.

 

[Joshua]

See what happens when you do but yes your board was far better than the later one you put up.

I'm still young, hopefully by the time I'm 30 my boards will be spot on.
I'll even get stickers saying "Approved by westward" just for you

 

[Dave OCD]

Ok I'll post up my most recent one, the circuits on the right were originally storage heater points and ridiculously short so had to be extended. This board only just fitted in the space available and not even enough room for glands on top so I had to space the board off on a piece of ply on 1" battens and bring everything in the back.

 

[gazdkw82]

Is that a screw through a terminal on the earth bar?

 

[Richard Burns]

Is that a screw through a terminal on the earth bar?

One would assume that the screw is the earth connection to the body of the board as installed by the manufacturer.

Ok I'll post up my most recent one, the circuits on the right were originally storage heater points and ridiculously short so had to be extended. This board only just fitted in the space available and not even enough room for glands on top so I had to space the board off on a piece of ply on 1" battens and bring everything in the back.

I am interested that you were not worried by the exposed copper on the RCD incomers and unused busbar.
How did you extend the storage heaters' circuits?

 

[Simonslimline]

Last photo I took, last December if I remember correctly. Was not fully finished in this pic though.

 

[LewisM]

Here's one I did yesterday,


Okay here's one I did the other day.

 

[Deleted member 93172]

Ok Joshua I can't let you take this one on your own, here's a sample of mine, I must say this was taken before any fire stopping was carried out,

 

[Deleted member 93172]

And this is the incomer position behind the boards

 

[Dave OCD]

I like the 20mm plastic conduit saddle 'managing' the earths.

 

[westward10]

Shame he didn't have an eight way block.

 

[Dave OCD]

One would assume that the screw is the earth connection to the body of the board as installed by the manufacturer.

I am interested that you were not worried by the exposed copper on the RCD incomers and unused busbar.
How did you extend the storage heaters' circuits?

Yes that screw is the manufacturers means of earthing the steel enclosure.
I'm not totally happy with the copper on show in the RCDs Richard but the conductors are fully home in the terminals and they're the very fine stranded copper crimped together at the ends so to shorten them would be a faff and anyway nobody should be poking around in there without the main switch off. The spare ways had the proper Hager blanks fitted which clip onto the din rail and fully shield the busbar prongs after I took the picture. The storage heater circuits which are now radials feeding individual sockets and labelled up in great detail were extended in the void behind my backboard using Ideal maintenance free connectors, I thought this fine as it's totally inaccessible with the CU fitted and there's no strain on the cabling.

 

[westward10]

Seems pretty neat Dave but I would have taken equal lengths off the tails sheathing
It is annoying that the linking kits for these boards have exposed copper.

 

[Dave OCD]

Yes ok W10 you have me there and I normally do, less than 10mm in it though. Anyway at that stage of the job I was dying for a cuppa and wanted to get the power back on.

 

[hasel5]

Ok Joshua I can't let you take this one on your own, here's a sample of mine, I must say this was taken before any fire stopping was carried out, View attachment 37260

That must of taken a while to terminate

 

[leep82]

Not posted for a while so i'll get involved. Incoming supply had not been connected at this point. This DB was in a large dettached garage/granny flat.

 

[westward10]

You might want to put a supply to that

 

[leep82]

You might want to put a supply to that

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[freddo]

I always forget just how tall those Wylex RCBOs are.

 

[leep82]

I always forget just how tall those Wylex RCBOs are.

Good for hiding a rats nest of wiring behind though