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yeah we had to reconnect, test and comission a boiler house before.Well I did my time years ago at Kier Sheffield, mainly domestic (decent homes scheme house bashing), but also worked on fire alarms, door entry systems etc. We did some small to medium commercial stuff which is my experience of 3 phase.
Generally it was new build so no existing older installs seen. Judging by my MISTAKEN initial post in this thread you can see I haven't had any experience with Industrial installs. Anyway a few of my mentors on commercial jobs ('experienced' time served sparks) would always suggest 3 pole mcb's for safer isolation on 3 phase systems. Their words repeated by me. Never seen a switch fuse feed a final circuit directly, only to feed sub boards generally from a bus bar chamber.
As always in this game I'm still learning, I have no desire to do Industrial and only stick to light modern commercial and domestic. I guess due to larger in-rush currents and high kilowatt machinery mcb's aren't practical compared to BS 88 fuses (etc). Basically what Alanl said in #15.
because of the way the panels are we were getting readings too high for 60898 breakers so it went on test sheet as recommended swapping to bs88 (was the overloads causing it because of the dol starters)