RCD split boards

[jimi]

what side should you put the cooker if it has a socket on the outlet and what side if it does not? and what side should the shower be on thanx 4 any help

 

[Lectrician]

An electric shower doesn't strictly need to be on the RCD side, but most people consider it the safest bet. Mine is on the RCD side

The cooker, if it has a socket on the CCU?? Umm, well. Open to debate. I personally dont install CCU's, I prefer to use a DP switch. You obviously know the reasoning for and against the cooker being fed via the RCD. If there is a socket by the back door, closer than the CCU, then possibly not, If the CCU was next to the back door, then yes.

 

[Adam_151]

I would say that the best bet is to put the shower on an rcbo on the none rcd side,

if something causes a nuisense trip while you are showering, do you really want to be stumbling out the shower with shampoo dripping in your eyes causing you to close them, falling over the towel, then running naked through the house trying to find the cu, then putting your wet soapy hands on the breakers, without fully seeing where you are putting them, while a puddle of soapy water gathers at your bare feet?

 

[paulh53]

I would say that the best bet is to put the shower on an rcbo on the none rcd side,

if something causes a nuisense trip while you are showering, do you really want to be stumbling out the shower with shampoo dripping in your eyes causing you to close them, falling over the towel, then running naked through the house trying to find the cu, then putting your wet soapy hands on the breakers, without fully seeing where you are putting them, while a puddle of soapy water gathers at your bare feet?

I feel a bedtime story coming on

 

[Adam_151]

I feel a bedtime story coming on

You'll be disappointed then...the worst thats happened is that I've had to reset the rcd while other family members have been showering

 

[plugwash]

I would say that the best bet is to put the shower on an rcbo on the none rcd side,

if something causes a nuisense trip while you are showering, do you really want to be stumbling out the shower with shampoo dripping in your eyes causing you to close them, falling over the towel, then running naked through the house trying to find the cu, then putting your wet soapy hands on the breakers, without fully seeing where you are putting them, while a puddle of soapy water gathers at your bare feet?

you are using a very high power appliance in a situation where you are wet and naked thats why most sparkys reccomend putting it on rcd.

personally i belive that split loaders are for cheapskates and totally ignore the principles of fault discrimination that we used to consider so important.

rcbos on the other hand often don't isolate neutral so i'm not sure i really approve of them either.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Use 2-pole RCBOs then...

 

[Big_Spark]

rcbos on the other hand often don't isolate neutral so i'm not sure i really approve of them either.

Plug, I don't know where you've been buying RCD's/RCBO's, but they ALWAYS isolate both Poles.

If it doesn't have a Neutral feed, the RCBO will not work, simple fact of physics.

 

[plugwash]

it was london spark who told me actually

yes for a RCBO to work the neutral has to go through its sense system. That is a totally seperate question from whether it breaks the neutral