Wifi & zigbee inside a metal box

[Collectors]

Hi, with a lot of home automation coming into our lives, the need for good signals on wifi & others like zigbee is becoming more important. Now many of these items are din rail mounted & good for fitting in a fuse board, but we are asked to fit metal fuse boards & this would seriously effect signals too & from any unit.
Do they make somthing that could be fitted on a fuse board to help??. Or would something like the image work, but imagine its a metal box.

 

[omega015]

Theres not a good answer to this as it all depends on the use case. even simply fiiting a din rail mounted component in a fuse board/consumer unit poses issues with is it type tested, seperation between low voltage and extra low voltage etc... Just because it fits on a din rail doesnt mean its a good idea unless its thought about in detail. In short, sure something like your image could be a solution but then there questions on have you created an area fire can break out from under a fault situation, again not type tested and should the worse happen would an inspector look at that and point the blame.

Always best if possible to have seperate enclosures and perhaps leaving the mains electrical in one panel/CU and having links/interconnections to your smart panel/CU.

 

[Collectors]

Theres not a good answer to this as it all depends on the use case. even simply fiiting a din rail mounted component in a fuse board/consumer unit poses issues with is it type tested, seperation between low voltage and extra low voltage etc... Just because it fits on a din rail doesnt mean its a good idea unless its thought about in detail. In short, sure something like your image could be a solution but then there questions on have you created an area fire can break out from under a fault situation, again not type tested and should the worse happen would an inspector look at that and point the blame.

Always best if possible to have seperate enclosures and perhaps leaving the mains electrical in one panel/CU and having links/interconnections to your smart panel/CU.

Thanks for the feed back. I was looking a the newer style of metered zigbee mcb that are about , but might end up with a metal board of RCBO's & separate plastic enclosure for any home automation that needs a signal. One of the problems i had was getting CT clamps neatly into an RCBO boards. It just to tight.