Recommendation for Domestic Consumer Unit

[charles]

but, when I wanted 2 metal cases (taking 4 modules) last year to match some existing ones, they'd been discontinued

[Bill]

In message , charles writes

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Crabtree still supplied their Starbreaker range, which was good when I replaced all my MCBs recently with RCBOs. The original was 20+ years ol0+

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[spuorgelgoog]

Nonono, your house just has unsuitable circuits :-)

Anyway you can always upgrade a 6A to a 20A breaker by putting a length of 15A fuse wire between the busbar and the load terminal and hiding it behind the din rail.

Owain

[John Rumm]

Another vote for GET ultimate from TLC - nicely made - look kind of MKish (slightly curved front - less of a dust trap on the top edge), big terminals colour coded in old and new colours so easy to wire.

[Fredxxx]

I couldn't see any GET consumer units on the TLC website!

[ARW]

I only fit CLICK white accessories (made by Scolmore) unless otherwise instructed.

[John Rumm]

That's because we were talking sockets, not consumer units ;-)

[PeterC]

Beat me to it - though we perhaps should have been looking for sockets. I don't like the 2-gang 13A sockets as the switches are 'conjoined' - no gap between them.

[ARW]

Does anyone ever use the switches on switched sockets?. BTW MK and others often do a range where the switches are located on the LHS and RHS of the plate. Often speced for use in hospitals and clasroom computer rooms.

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[Tim Watts]

GET are part of Schneider Electric and Schneider also own Square-D and Merlin Gerin so they're covered for distribution boxes (large and small).

[Andy Burns]

And Tower cable clips too (which B&Q seem to have stopped selling).

[PeterC]

I do. I like the gap as it gives a clear feel in addition to the visual info. I was tempted by the outboard rockers but am so used to the conventional ones I just knew there'd be mistakes - PVR in the middle of recording!

[John Rumm]

Well its one way of flogging the values that are sat on the shelf and not moving ;-)

[Adam Funk]

I use the switches quite a bit, especially in the kitchen. I agree that having the switches spaced farther apart is better.

[Tim Watts]

I usually use the switches - my motto is "if it doesn't need power, don't power it" - less stuff to catch fire then...

I do leave TVs on standby though, mostly because teh sockets are round the back an ICBA.