Unfortunately the majority of people just don't want to pay for all RCBOs. I personally love them, and wouldn't consider installing anything else for myself.
Fuse allocation recommendations for CU in a bungalow
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Haha true, and cheaper! But in the grand scheme of things, particularly on a full rewire (or new build) it's not that much more money.
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I imagine that most people would probably agree with you - but, as you say, the price differential (albeit not as great as some imagine) is currently sufficiently large to put very many people off. The one thing that would make RCBOs even more attractive to me would be an indication of whether a trip had been due to over-current or residual current, since fault-finding can sometimes be a little frustrating when one doesn't know.
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That would be useful, but in the, probably 5 years they've been in at my parents now, there have been a grand total of 3 trips - they know to tell me now:
1. Halogen lamp blew
2. Flourescent control gear exploded (literally)
3. Oven circuit (only one that's an unknown fault)
I think the downfall of not knowing if it's overload or earth fault more than outweighs the potential issues of taking out one half of the board on an earth fault, particularly if it's N+E and a pig to find.
Sure, in terms of my own personal installation, with the very few trips of MCBs or RCDs I've experienced in the last 30+ years (whilst living with a large number of RCDs and MCBs), I think I've virtually always known, from circumstances, which has probably tripped before even looking.
I think you may have got those words a bit 'the wrong way around', but I agree with what I think you meant to write, and wasn't meaning to suggest that the lack of an indication is a reason for not using RCBOs - I meant that they would be even more attractive if they did have such an indication.
Kind Regards, John
How strange that you've not heard of rugs, socks, shoes, slippers etc.
... the latter three of which people often remove when in bathrooms!
Kind Regards, John
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