Shortages of switchgear

[Gavin John Hyde]

Have any of you had issues getting hold of switchgear at the moment?
Around here some suppliers have got issues with shortages of Lewden boards and devices. they said they are not the only ones with supply issues a the moment.
The fusebox brand is in short supply locally.
Denmans/Rexel have plenty of their own brand stuff so no major problems there.Hager seems to be in plentiful supply still.



Did also see today that CircPro - https://www.circpro.co.uk/ have the license from MK/Honeywell to supply the Sentry range of Mk switchgear in the UK now Honeywell are pulling out.

 

[DefyG]

Did a month or so ago but things seem to be recovering now. Guess it’s a knock on effect of Covid.

 

[freddo]

We are really struggling (or at least the wholesalers are) to get all sorts of things. Have installed several alarm systems but have been unable to complete them as we can't get the keypads! Commercial lighting PIRs also hard to find, struggled a while back to get steel conduit. And many other simple items!

 

[Dartlec]

Did also see today that CircPro - https://www.circpro.co.uk/ have the license from MK/Honeywell to supply the Sentry range of Mk switchgear in the UK now Honeywell are pulling out.

Interesting, seems they are listing some Type A RCBOs now, which I'm not sure they did before? Looks like they've changed the part numbers from a K at the start to an H.

I assume they are also working away on an AFDD.

Given the number of Sentry boards out there, there must still be a good market for replacements. No doubt Screwfix & Toolstation are currently trying to drive them as low as possible on price.

Hope they've maintained the lean - that took years of careful engineering to perfect!

 

[freddo]

Oh dear, why don't they just let the MK circuit protection stuff die? It's been slowly going downhill for years.