Hi,
I've just installed a new consumer unit in my garage, as before all the electrics have been spurred from a socket brought through from the house. I've used the volex garage consumer unit from screwfix.com
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Ben
Hi,
I've just installed a new consumer unit in my garage, as before all the electrics have been spurred from a socket brought through from the house. I've used the volex garage consumer unit from screwfix.com
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Ben
Thats your problem. An RCD *must* have the L and N connected through it so it can measure any imbalance between the two. With no N connection through the RCD it sees a huge imbalance and trips...
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There's your error "there is only one N bus bar and it is not connected to the RCD in anyway, so I can't see how it would run through it."
I've done a couple of these Volex garage kits. Your mains feed (L *AND* N) go into the top of the RCD. Then you have make a short link to take the N from the bottom of the RCD to the N busbar at the bottom of the box. The copper finger busbar obviously takes the L from the RCD to the two MCB.
Hi,
Thanks for the replies. After posting this I went out to the garage and tested it, and it all worked, trouble is no instructions came with it, the live on the RCD had a big 'L' sticker on it, but there was nothing to say where the N went. As you can tell I've never done a consumer unit before. Wish I'd googled for the answer 4 days ago :-)
Cheers
Ben
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