Wylex New Style Metal Consumer Units.

[stillp]

It looks like a nice little earner for the board makers

New tooling and machinery, type-testing costs, crediting distributors for unsold plastic stock, disposal of same...etc, etc.

 

[kai]

Wylex and MK have always made metal boards, the only change is that they are called amendment three boards. The earlier metal boards had a choice of metal or plastic front visors too.

 

[Iggifer]

Wylex and MK have always made metal boards, the only change is that they are called amendment three boards. The earlier metal boards had a choice of metal or plastic front visors too.

Don't forget it costs them more to make them out of metal too. And as for the Amd3 boards I've used, they're MUCH better than the plastic ones previously.

 

[RF Lighting]

My local wholesaler is knocking out fully loaded dual split MK metal clad boards for £60.

 

[securespark]

MK are not what they used to be, though.

Having said that, with an all-metal construction, that should banish the "smiling" busbar that you used to get on the placcy boards.

 

[kai]

MK are not what they used to be, though.

Having said that, with an all-metal construction, that should banish the "smiling" busbar that you used to get on the placcy boards.

What smiling busbar?

MK_WYLEX_FUSEBOX_HYBRID

• kai
• 21 Feb 2016

This is a plastic MK board with a fully loaded din-rail, the breakers appear to be perfectly dead straight here.
A job done properly, will always have dead straight breakers, a sign of a well done installation!

The following Wylex board also has perfectly aligned breakers too...

201601-MY-WYLEX-FUSEBOX

• kai
• 12 Jan 2016
• 1

 

[Echo the husky]

That's an old MK board!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

crediting distributors for unsold plastic stock, disposal of same...etc, etc.

Unless they forced distributors to take stock against their will, why should they have to do that? The new requirement was flagged a year in advance - anybody who come Jan 1 this year said to themselves "Blimey - now what are we going to do with all these?" should perhaps have been thinking in 2015 whether they should have acquired "all these".

And why disposal? Plastic CUs are still acceptable in all sorts of places.

 

[securespark]

That's an old MK board!

And doesn't it have Wylex innards?

So, it's nothing like the modern bendy MK boards with MK innards!

Were MK trying to make their boards earthquake-proof?

 

[stillp]

crediting distributors for unsold plastic stock, disposal of same...etc, etc.

Unless they forced distributors to take stock against their will, why should they have to do that? The new requirement was flagged a year in advance - anybody who come Jan 1 this year said to themselves "Blimey - now what are we going to do with all these?" should perhaps have been thinking in 2015 whether they should have acquired "all these".

You might remember that there was confusion over whether flame-retardant plastics would be acceptable. There were even some people saying that the "non-combustible" requirement could not be complied with, and therefore must be ignored.

And why disposal? Plastic CUs are still acceptable in all sorts of places.

Selling to those places might be considered part of "disposal".

 

[flameport]

And doesn't it have Wylex innards?

Certainly does.

It was also bought for £5 on 27 August 2006.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

You might remember that there was confusion over whether flame-retardant plastics would be acceptable. There were even some people saying that the "non-combustible" requirement could not be complied with, and therefore must be ignored.

All of these things are true, and valid, particularly the last.

None of them mean that people with excess stocks of plastic CUs deserve any compensation from anybody.

Selling to those places might be considered part of "disposal".

True.

 

[stillp]

None of them mean that people with excess stocks of plastic CUs deserve any compensation from anybody.

The better manufacturers support their distributors, even when they over-order - not that distributors often over-order unless encouraged to do so by the manufacturers.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Surely you aren't suggesting that some manufacturers encourage disties to take extra products into stock at quarter or year end in order that they can record good sales figures?

 

[stillp]

I couldn't possibly comment...