I have recently replaced all the old rewirable fuses in a Wylex Consume
Unit with equivalent MCBs. Everything works fine except I cannot replac the original fuse cover because the new MCBs are too deep. Does anyon know if Wylex supply a deeper cover to replace the orginal one when th upgrade above is carried out.? Thanks for any help
-- chopsaw
Yes; it's a frame to retain them, rather than a cover. Also, some of the newer ones (1980s) have a "knock out" panel in the front cover.
Allegedly they "did" supply deep covers for certain sizes of CUs, but I never found any. I'm in the process of replacing the CU with a 12 or
14-way modern one. In the meantime I just leave the cover off my 6-way and try to stop Gromit (the dog) from stotting his ball off it and tripping divers circuits.I would be interested to know if such deeper covers are still available, however. At a theatre with which I'm involved we still have a couple of Wylex CUs which I've equipped with MCBs.
The trouble is that the "knock-out" panel doesn't really do anything. You forfeit the labelling of the MCB designation, and protection against impact by pets (or drunken pet-owners!)
Hic -
That's exactly the problem I have .At the moment I have some MCB's and some with Cartridge Fuses ..I was actually thinking of making one out of plywood and just painting it to match the bakelite brown ...I think I looked before to see if they had a deeper cover to no avail ...certainly cannot see one in their catalogue .
Stuart
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