Curent electrical regulations

How old is it?

I fitted a few RCBOs into my parents Starbreaker CU a few years ago to fetch it up to the 17th edition regs.

I fitted their CU back in 2004 when they bought the place and I did a

Exactly why I went for split load.

But the point I was making was that if the cause of a whole house RCD constantly tripping is electronics, it would happen here too. As here they are all on one RCD.

I've never come across it. Although have nothing like the experience of Adam, etc. Perhaps it was never that common in London.

Think it tends to date from a narrow window in time. When there was a copper shortage - Rhodesia UDI?

There were 2 periods when ali was fitted, in the 1950s & the 70s. I was offered some in the early 80s & declined. The 70s stuff was CCA, I don't remember whether in the 50s it was ali or CCA. It's a known fire risk.

NT

my 15th Edition of the Regs (1981) has tables for aluminium & copper. As has the 16th (1992). I. sadly didn't keep my 13th & 14th editions. And, I haven't yet bought the 18th!

He had been there a hour before I arrived and was still there when I left an hour later. yes a disabled tenant. Terminal cancer like me.

Do you have an expected expiry date?

They said six months but that was november. Chemo every two weeks seems to be doing something.

About 1993.

When I bought the house, it needed a full re-wire. My father was on some of the British Standards committees (BS1363 and others) and spoke to a fellow committee member from Crabtree and I got the CU, busbars, isolator switch, RCD and MCBs as free samples!

SteveW

Sorry to hear that!

Well let's hope they carry on being wrong.

I know the ones. The RCBOs for those units were double pole width

However there are now these

You would have to call their tech support to see if they would fit your board.

Good luck with it.

I'm not finding it too bad ATM. Its a pain being connected to a drip all day and then having to take a pump full of toxins home to continue for another two days. But I only had 14 of those and I am only on cetribumax (sp?) ATM.

I think the side effects I have aren't particularly bad, mainly weight control, and my nails keep delaminating which can make handling small stuff painful and difficult.

The tumour has shrunk a lot but they can't remove it surgically so its chemo followed by more chemo.

Crikey. Hope it continues to work, and for a long time.

Those are no use. Even with removing the existing RCD, I'd only have enough spare ways to change 4 single width MCBs to double width RCBOs and I'd need to do at least 6 and preferably 9.

Ah. Now they do look like they may fit - I've not seen those before. For years they have been much larger ones, with a very assymetrical design that definitely won't fit my box.

Thanks for that.

SteveW

That just leaves the problem of your fixed plug in bus bar if you wanted all RCBOs.

I am pretty sure the right one is still available and easily changed.

SteveW

RCBO = way to go.