Wylex New Style Metal Consumer Units.

[kai]

That Pic-N-Mic MK Board has an interesting story behind it. It was picked up as an empty shell for a fiver in B&Q's clearance bin for end of line items. The contents are from a Bargain Basement Wickes fully populated plastic Wylex board, bought only because it worked out much cheaper than buying a single spare 80amp RCD plus three spare breakers for reserves.

I placed all the contents onto the din-rail of the spare MK board I had lying around, and mounted it up on the wall, high up, to protect it from knocks, bumps and spills etc.

Someone had told me that I could use the full din-rail in the new empty Wylex board, to replace the flimsy half-din-rail in my house Wylex board, which I duly did - it was an easy job, as I just switched off at the separate isolator in the tails, and carefully removed the old half rail from behind the breakers, swinging them forward, and slid the new full-din-rail into its place, reusing the two large machine screws to secure the new rail into the original consumer unit base. I then clipped the breakers back onto the new full-din-rail for a nice and secure fit, replaced all covers, and turned the separate mains isolator back on afterwards. It took fifteen minutes at the most to perform the din-rail swapover.

 

[kai]

That Pic-N-Mic MK Board has an interesting story behind it. It was picked up as an empty shell for a fiver in B&Q's clearance bin for end of line items. The contents are from a Bargain Basement Wickes fully populated plastic Wylex board, bought only because it worked out much cheaper than buying a single spare 80amp RCD plus three spare breakers for reserves.

I placed all the contents onto the din-rail of the spare MK board I had lying around, and mounted it up on the wall, high up, to protect it from knocks, bumps and spills etc.

Someone had told me that I could use the full din-rail in the new empty Wylex board, to replace the flimsy half-din-rail in my house Wylex board, which I duly did - it was an easy job, as I just switched off at the separate isolator in the tails, and carefully removed the old half rail from behind the breakers, swinging them forward, and slid the new full-din-rail into its place, reusing the two large machine screws to secure the new rail into the original consumer unit base. I then clipped the breakers back onto the new full-din-rail for a nice and secure fit, replaced all covers, and turned the separate mains isolator back on afterwards. It took fifteen minutes at the most to perform the din-rail swapover.

 

[JohnD]

I heard you the first time.

 

[EFLImpudence]

...and then it went BANG!!!

 

[kai]

Nope actually, it all runs smoothly now. I cheated a bit as NOT one MCB or busbar connection needed to be disturbed at all - the whole bank of breakers just swung forwards to allow the old half din-rail swap over, and clipped straight back onto the new din rail. The old half din-rail literally just had the row of breakers floating on it, with the din-clips hanging in thin air!!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I couldn't possibly comment...

I could.

But IME there is never any way for the distie to reverse the deals.