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I fitted some pretty naff stuff over the years but this one has to be the worst I've come across yet. Obviously quite a few year old now and not helped by the way it has been installed either but its so badly designed its left me baffled.
The neutral bar is only one one side, buried deep under all the cables that have to run past it, why oh why not put one neutral bar on each side, same goes for the earth bar. Also there are nowhere near enough ways on the bars for the potential number of (single phase) circuits you could fit. The board is way too narrow, not even enough space for MCB's let alone RCBO's. My job was to upgrade a couple of MCB's to RCBO's as we had done some alterations on a few circuits but trying to identify the neutrals took longer than the actual job.
I had to basically strip out most of the circuits on the right hand side (you can see I've started numbering them, this picture was took just after I took the lid off so it always looked like that inside. I also had to do this at the weekend as we couldn't turn the power off any other time, this was not a job for a Saturday morning.
I thought Hager was supposed to be the best.
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I fitted some pretty naff stuff over the years but this one has to be the worst I've come across yet. Obviously quite a few year old now and not helped by the way it has been installed either but its so badly designed its left me baffled.
The neutral bar is only one one side, buried deep under all the cables that have to run past it, why oh why not put one neutral bar on each side, same goes for the earth bar. Also there are nowhere near enough ways on the bars for the potential number of (single phase) circuits you could fit. The board is way too narrow, not even enough space for MCB's let alone RCBO's. My job was to upgrade a couple of MCB's to RCBO's as we had done some alterations on a few circuits but trying to identify the neutrals took longer than the actual job.
I had to basically strip out most of the circuits on the right hand side (you can see I've started numbering them, this picture was took just after I took the lid off so it always looked like that inside. I also had to do this at the weekend as we couldn't turn the power off any other time, this was not a job for a Saturday morning.
I thought Hager was supposed to be the best.
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