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A few questions about my electrical installation/ consumer unit

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Yeah, I was wondering about space at the top.

 

You could of course screw a bit of DIN on to the existing back plate just for the end thingies.

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    You should test it in each circuit before buying too many. It is quite possible that you may have a borrowed neutral or 2. That can be very difficult to locate and will either instantly trip an RCBO o

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    While individual RCCBs are a requirement in the U.K. and good practice if you can afford them and you have no borrowed neutrals here, whole house are a PEA standard (we all know the compliance that ha

  • Looks like a nice installation to start with 🙂  Is the ground bar actually linked to ground?   Those siemens MCBs seem to be normal DIN mount units rather than plug-in 🙂    Si

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My local proper electrics store didn't have them in stock when I checked last week. That's not surprising now I see that the Lazada options are all from China. I've ordered some which should arrive around the same time I'm back in Thailand. Updates to follow. Thanks again.

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The din mount things hold ok. They’re really designed to have two points of contact like on a din rail. It’s not a super great hold but looks like it should do the job. 
 

Next issue is that the existing space is a bit too tight to pass the four new circuits through. I’m thinking to drill a hole in the top of the CU (or maybe one each side of the existing channel), add a grommet and feed the wires through it. Before I do that I’ll have another go getting them through how it is now. 

 

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I managed to get the wires through in the end. All the new circuits are connected and I did a quick test on each one with a multimeter. Next i'll try adding a socket on each circuit and testing the RCBO with my little socket tester. The loads are balanced at L1=100A, L2= 112A, L3=104A. Tomorrow i'll post a photo of completed wall chases/ conduit and then i'll post again when the chases are filled in and the receptacles installed. Just in case anyone's interested.

 

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Looking good. 

You have 100A per phase in your condo?

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20 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Looking good. 

You have 100A per phase in your condo?

Thanks. 50A

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The finished product. Thanks again to all who replied.

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