Is this fusebox illegal
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As has been said above, the real problem is the cabling not the CU - it looks like VIR cable (google it) and will crumble and short out if you look at it the wrong way. I wouldn't want it in my house!
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Replacing a consumer unit requires that all of the circuit connected to it be inspected and tested, and any problems fixed before the new consumer unit is installed.
60+ year old cabling can't be fixed.
Guy came today ...very professional and certainly knows his stuff...its looking likely that it can be run from the separate fusebox in the garage so no need to tamper with the old one in the house other than to remove the old grey box that used to run the shower......maybe next year i will get him back to replace the house one and rewire where necessary.....i certainly feel happier getting a professional in instead of following the muppets that attemp these things themselves without qualifications..... thanks everyone
Think im going to get him to cone back next year and change the meter or if possible relocate it and rewire the whole place.....we are needing to redecorate anyway.....but can rewiring be done without damaging ceilings ?...we have upstairs...would rewiring mean lifting the floors .....we do have metal conduits
Do you mean 'the meter', or do you perhaps mean the fuse box/consumer unit? Electricians cannot change meters.
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Sorry john...yes the consumer unit
I don't really understand what that means. It either trips at 30mA residual current or it doesn't (and I imagine that the Standard requires that it does!) - and, if it does, it would be as good for 'additional protection' (as well as fault protection) as would be any other 30mA RCD, wouldn't it?
What am I missing?
Kind Regards, John
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Not that I want to get involved - but the only thing I can think of is that this would only provide protection downstream of a potentially non-compliant part of a circuit, and the writers didn't want to get involved in the complications of explaining this.
Who knows, but I can't see why that should apply to an RCD device to BS 7288 any more than to any other RCD, can you?
If I had access to a copy of the Standard, then maybe it might say something that makes sense of all this - although I currently struggle to think of what that 'something' could be!
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Well, I didn't look at the other standards, but 7288 is specifically for rcd protected socket outlets, and I have assumed the others are basic rcds which can protect a whole circuit or more than one circuit. If that assumption is correct, there is a clear difference. You certainly couldn't fit your 7288 device in a consumer unit.
I meant an error in BS 7671 531.3.6 in that it doesn't explicitly allow BS 7288, perhaps? And what about BS 4293 RCD's, are they non-compliant now (or incorporated into EN61009)
There's a previous discussion on the same thing here i came across :https://www2.theiet.org/forums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=205&threadid=106933
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