I spent a very miserable morning - all morning - trying to crowbar two RCBOs into a customer's Volex consumer unit.
I wonder if anybody at Electrium has actually tried to do this.
The CU is so short that all of the conductors are crammed into the top of the board, leaving little room for anything else.
In an attepmt to make some space I re-arranged the board so the RCBOs (for two extended lighting circuits) were to be positioned at the extreme left of the board (next to the Main Switch).
This still was fraught with problems as the Volex board has a lovely neutral bus that runs horizontally above the CB positions. It is just, only just, possible to get the RCBOs under this rod, but I could only manage to do it by unscrewing the DIN rail and dropping it down.
Having re-positioned the DIN rail it was then almost impossible to connect the neutrals to the RCBO as the neutral termination was now at the back and under the horizontal neutral bus. Eventually it went in and all that was left to do was to connect the RCBO neutral feeds to the N1 terminal strip (blooming tricky that as there was already 4 plates full of black and blue spaghetti crammed into the space!).
I will never, ever try this again. Volex owners can have a nice new MEM 17th edition board or I'll walk..
Today I hate Volex even more than yesterday.
Anybody else had this little problem?
I wonder if anybody at Electrium has actually tried to do this.
The CU is so short that all of the conductors are crammed into the top of the board, leaving little room for anything else.
In an attepmt to make some space I re-arranged the board so the RCBOs (for two extended lighting circuits) were to be positioned at the extreme left of the board (next to the Main Switch).
This still was fraught with problems as the Volex board has a lovely neutral bus that runs horizontally above the CB positions. It is just, only just, possible to get the RCBOs under this rod, but I could only manage to do it by unscrewing the DIN rail and dropping it down.
Having re-positioned the DIN rail it was then almost impossible to connect the neutrals to the RCBO as the neutral termination was now at the back and under the horizontal neutral bus. Eventually it went in and all that was left to do was to connect the RCBO neutral feeds to the N1 terminal strip (blooming tricky that as there was already 4 plates full of black and blue spaghetti crammed into the space!).
I will never, ever try this again. Volex owners can have a nice new MEM 17th edition board or I'll walk..
Today I hate Volex even more than yesterday.
Anybody else had this little problem?