Best Consumer unit for home

[nicebutdim]

Are you sure it's starbreaker?

Didn't think they made 3 phase devices for the range.


Edit: answered as I was typing. Can't seem to get ahead of posts in this thread.

 

[Dustydazzler]

My own house would be the old plastic MK board I have collecting dust in the garage and use up all and any old RCBOs I have kicking about from other jobs that I can shoe horn onto the busbar

 

[nicebutdim]

this evening the rcd tripped and the wife got mad at me.
because in her mind being married to an electrician means that our electricity should be of a better quality than everybody else's and one stupid trip switch shouldn't turn everything off...

If I am going to do it, I am going to do it properly so what are your recommendations for domestic consumer units?
may as well have all the mod cons in it SPD, RCBO, time delay rcd incomer.

My own house would be the old plastic MK board I have collecting dust in the garage and use up all and any old RCBOs I have kicking about from other jobs that I can shoe horn onto the busbar

I feel a bit silly now, not having thought of that suggestion.

 

[SJD]

As mentioned by nicebutdim, if I was planning to live there long-term, I'd want something that will be supported long-term. So much though I like and routinely install Fusebox, I'd have to wonder will they be around in 10 or 20 years, or would I end up looking on eBay for spares. It is hard to know for sure of the decent brands which will survive long-term, my best guess is Hager.

 

[ipf]

Schneider acti9 3 phase is great but I'm not keen on the easy9 domestic single phase. Fusebox seems ok but it's Hager for me.
For donkeys years, I was a Wylex fan but not the latest stuff.

 

[Baddegg]

As above I like the fuse box range and fit the spd models as standard…..3 this week so far ….if I can’t get them I use contactum defender….both these balance quality against the amount people will pay in the domestic market…..but reading through I’m in agreement with the long term view and would probably stump up for Hager or Schneider in my own place when I inevitably find myself in your position @James….it won’t be long as my wife recently discovered that our “electric thingy” (not my work) doesn’t look as nice as the one I’ve just fitted in her friends place…

 

[AJshep]

I like the Electrium consumer units but the cost is still higher then others.

For my house I'd probably go for a Hager with built in SPD. The SPDs in the Hager consumer units are rated at 100amp so don't require any additional OCPD. However as it's a TT I'd be inclined to change the Main switch to a 100ma Time delayed.
Hager have recently dropped the price of their mixture SPSN miniature RCBOs to around £15 each.

 

[timhoward]

Hager have recently dropped the price of their mixture SPSN miniature RCBOs to around £15 each.

I was about to say that the benefit of Crabtree Starbreaker is they make SPSN RCBOs.
Then you wrote that; so maybe I'm wrong but I've never seen a single module SPSN RCBO from Hager, only SP+N. I know the AFDDs are SPSN.
I think I specifically asked this on here a while back and this was confirmed.

 

[ferg]

I went for Hager in mine and that is what I fit as standard.
I've fitted a few fusebox boards where cost was the primary concern and I have to say I much prefer Hager.
As above the RCBOs have come down in price lately making cost less of an issue.
When it came to changing mine I had a Fusebox and RCBOs in stock waiting for a home and I still fitted Hager.
I used to keep both brands but now I only keep Hager.
Due to my location I have to carry a fair bit of stock and have been using Hager for many years without issue.

 

[nicebutdim]

I went for Hager in mine and that is what I fit as standard.
I've fitted a few fusebox boards where cost was the primary concern and I have to say I much prefer Hager.
As above the RCBOs have come down in price lately making cost less of an issue.
When it came to changing mine I had a Fusebox and RCBOs in stock waiting for a home and I still fitted Hager.
I used to keep both brands but now I only keep Hager.
Due to my location I have to carry a fair bit of stock and have been using Hager for many years without issue.

Can you resolve the issue of whether or not Hager offer SP+N RCBOs (regardless of cost) in a single module width? My understanding was the same as @timhoward in that they don't.

For me the main selling point of Hager is the fact that backward compatibility has been maintained over many years, but would favour Starbreaker in that regard as the range also incorporates other beneficial features. I don't dislike Hager in the least, but often struggle to understand their popularity in the domestic distribution board market.