Wylex Amd 3 Install Methods

[securespark]

What do you think?

 

[EFLImpudence]

Hang on SS.

I'm just finishing my "Guide to Viewing Information Videos" video.

 

[Echo the husky]

They make it look so easy. Any idiot can do it perfectly on a new installation. Let's see how they do it during a fuseboard replacement in some awkward cupboard where none of the circuit cables are where you want them and there is no room to move!

Nice video otherwise, the part about the consumer units catching fire made me chuckle.

 

[Iggifer]

I think I'm still not gonna fit them. They just don't look in the same league as hager.

They need to work on their trunking installations too

 

[sparkwright]

Is it me, or do they start explaining how important it is to maintain the fire containment of the enclosure, then start showing cables entering with a pvc trunking butted up to it, without fireproof seals.

 

[flameport]

At 4:42 they show an external RCD in a plastic enclosure.

 

[Iggifer]

They make it look so easy. Any idiot can do it perfectly on a new installation

Thought their cables coming out of the wall in the rear-entry example were WAAAAAY too short though. That'd be fun to terminate tidily

 

[SimonH2]

Is it me, or do they start explaining how important it is to maintain the fire containment of the enclosure, then start showing cables entering with a pvc trunking butted up to it, without fireproof seals.

Yes, and then show a patress allowing a big open hole from the box to the plastic trunking.
And if the semi-blind grommets are acceptable by virtue of being made from "fire resistant material" then why all the fuss about steel boxes !

 

[ban-all-sheds]

And if the semi-blind grommets are acceptable by virtue of being made from "fire resistant material" then why all the fuss about steel boxes !

Because the regulation was written by an idiot who DNGAS about it just so long as it stopped other idiots in the London Fire Service from disturbing him?

 

[kai]

AMD3 seems to be a Money making scheme drummed up by the board makers, that's all.
A metal board sells for around twice the cost of the equivalent plastic board of the same brand/make on average.
i.e. a 16module empty plastic board was around thirty pounds and the empty metal version is around sixty pounds.

 

[bernardgreen]

so long as it stopped other idiots in the London Fire Service from disturbing him

To be fair to LFB and other brigades they did find they were dealing with quite a few fires that had been started by overheating connections in consumer units. Enough to raise concerns that "inflammable" consumer units were among the top 5 sources of ignition in domestic fires that were caused by faults in electrical installation and fixed equipment.

That said in many cases the consumer unit would have burnt out without creating a major fire had there not been inflammable materials stored next to the consumer unit. Educating people not to hang coats over the consumer unit would be a big step forward IF people would accept the advice.

 

[kai]

Hanging coats over consumer boards was never a good idea.
Maybe if there were decent connections in the board to start with, the fires will have not arose in the 1st place.
Remember the Traditional Wylex Boards, with two large clamping screws in each terminal position, securely clamping the conductors?
Amendment three should have addressed the cause of the problem (inadequate terminal pinch screws), and not the symptoms!

 

[bernardgreen]

Amendment three should have addressed the cause of the problem (inadequate terminal pinch screws), and not the symptoms!

That would have been a better way to reduce the number of fires but it still depends on the installer making sure the connections are good.

Hanging coats over consumer boards was never a good idea.

People do it sometimes without realising they are doing it . A friend hung coats on the back of the cupboard door. When the door was closed they were touching the consumer unit on the back wall of the cupboard.

There are also people with stacks of cardboard boxes piled into cupboard and against the consumer unit.

 

[securespark]

I attended a house fire a few years back (thankfully non-fatal) where a CH pump had jammed and overheated. It was in a cupboard and the cupboard stuffed with CD, DVD and computer game boxes which caught.