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newbrain:

--- Quote from: Monkeh on October 17, 2022, 04:48:50 pm ---Looks like lipstick on a pig.. at least it doesn't have wallpaper and dry wood inside it?

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Honest question: is that comment related to the Sweden panel?
If so, do you see them as important flaws?
I did not give much thought to the wallpaper finishing: it's -mostly-  under the panel cover "lips", and far from wiring and breakers, just an aesthetic thing.
As for the wood (quite a thick plank, about 2 cm): I imagine is up to code, and a convenient way to mount the breaker rail (not live as in US, just structural and connected to PE), but I am no expert.
One thing I noticed: the main breaker has a locking ring to slip in a tag or lock to prevent accidents.
In Sweden, anyhow, the range of things one can do to the wiring is extremely limited (more or less: just change a switch or a socket with an identical one).

Yes, the Italy panel is quite minimal, but even then the electrician managed to cross wire some sockets :-DD.
Monkeh:

--- Quote from: newbrain on October 18, 2022, 07:21:36 am ---
--- Quote from: Monkeh on October 17, 2022, 04:48:50 pm ---Looks like lipstick on a pig.. at least it doesn't have wallpaper and dry wood inside it?

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Honest question: is that comment related to the Sweden panel?
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Indeed. Or the latter half, anyway - the Swedish panel is at least quite neat and tidy, the Italian one could use some, uhm.. total replacement of everything, not just some shiny breakers shoved in it.


--- Quote ---If so, do you see them as important flaws?

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Well, we moved away from wooden backed boards and then plastic because of flammability concerns. A loose terminal in there could start a nice smoldering fire which will happily carry on inside and outside the wall.
tszaboo:
I had this thing in the house before I moved in. Now it's all ABB HAF stuff. Plus all the outlets have earth pins. Like something from this century.
Still I had actual horror when I saw the one in the apartment I rented before. There was a single 63A fuse for the entire house, and a GFCI. I told the landlord that the house is unfit for living, an needs to be fixed ASAP, which they did in like a week.
mod: I dont know why is this all rotated.
bombledmonk:
Here is an in-progress picture when installing an Iotawatt.  200A Siemens/ITE panel along with an off peak heat panel to the left.
bombledmonk:
Here's one from my personal collection.....  A few weeks after we moved in to a previous house, we had some dimming in the lights in a couple rooms when using the vacuum cleaner.  While troubleshooting I had went through and changed some sketchy stab-in outlets thinking there might be issues there, but a few weeks later, the power in those rooms went completely out.    The reality was that the problem was in the main load center.    The panel was in an unconditioned attached garage where the previous owners had been venting their dryer.  I turns out that a lot of really cold metal (northern MN) causes a lot of condensation, which in turn causes oxidation and corrosion to the point where the one of the breakers had done a good job at arching away the buss bar tabs over time. 
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