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Could do, I suppose. Cheers. Fair point. [/url] Hmm. It'll mostly be used for lighting. Or is active actually required by regulation? Cheers for the reply.

[/url] Sure, they replace the thin nut, but I don't have a flat surface in which to put a hole in the plastic, so I'm not sure how they help in my case. :) Or are you suggesting I use them in my metal box?

I've just noticed that my plastic Eaton MEM CU has no solid surface to fasten a gland to (apart from on the cover ;)). It's all knockout sections to allow cables in/out. I think I'm going to have to terminate my SWA in a box outside the CU itself. :( So, something like this...

Well, yes. That's what he was commenting on, right? Has anyone ever mentioned to you that some of your comments seem a little abrasive? ;)

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Picked up these crimps and the 4mm ferrules. Perfect job. Highly recommend those crimps. They feel really solid, and only £24. My cable strippers say they're 6mm, but I could _just_ about squeeze them into the 4mm ferrules, minus a couple of hairs. Very snug, but a great contact. :)...

Cheers. They look about 4mm. Well, they're not bootlaced, but they are pressed into a square tip, with what looks like a touch of solder (?) to keep the strands together. Threads on here suggest you can't just chop them as the terminals aren't designed to take stranded cable. I'd much...

I want to cut, and put bootlace ferrules on, 8 RCBO neutrals. They're way too long at the moment. See below. I can find ferrules for a sensible price, but anything to crimp them seems to be £100+. Shortening these cables is worth a few quid to me, but I only need to crimp 8 ferrules...

Ah, that is neat. I have no idea why N and E would be swapped on this as that seems like a good solution. Ha. I'd already failed to find pictures. :)

Why's it stupid? I like the North/East/South/West split, which is all incomming cables from the North, all neutrals go East, all go earths West, all lives go south.

davelx> You've sent me a PM, but have disabled messages from non-friends, so I can't reply. Hopefully you're reading this thread?

They're memshield 3 compact. Same product codes, just suffixed with a 'c'. No functional earths. No rcd. Do you mean mcb? It'll be for supplying some rcd sockets outside. How wrong would it be to put the mcb on the far right, next to the isolator? Normally the ways are ordered by size, but...

It's arrived. Loads of room. :) Need to get some ferrules and a ratchet crimp to shorten those neutrals. Also need to work out what to do with the bell transformer. I guessed it would attach to the bus bar, but it's a separate feed, which is kindof lame. Probably easier just to get...

That's it. They won't be electrically connected, for sure. Also, now I think about it, if you were running a 45A cooker through a 16A spur socket and a fault occured, the CPC of the 16A spur attached to the backbox wouldn't be up to much... Cheers for the reply :)

Can you really bundle flying neutrals together without affecting their capacity? Aren't they carrying all of the current of the system in an all-RCBO install?

Before I chase this wall, any opinions on which bit of the safe zone to use for the chase to run the cables the upstairs. The chase will contain the upstairs ring, both lighting circuits, and fire alarm. My preference would be the left hand channel against the chimney breast, as no...

Perfect! Thankyou.