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Miyuki:

--- Quote from: Whales on October 07, 2022, 10:40:39 am ---
--- Quote from: Miyuki on October 07, 2022, 10:24:45 am ---It is without cover because I needed a "temporary" 3-phase socket (like for past two years  ::) )

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The contrast between the rough walls and the european styled breaker bodies is beautiful Miyuki :)  Hope the house is comfy.   Reminds me of the wiring I saw in Greece last I was there, some places were mudbrick (apparently it survives earthquakes better than some alternatives).

I can't quite tell, but there seem to be a few different colour wires screwed into the single bar at the top.  Neutral and earth bonded arbitrarily there?  Not just from the loose wires going to your plugs out the front, from the wall buried conduit too.

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Yea good old house, a combination of mudbricks and stones. It is from times when people have no idea what electricity is.

Only that one big cable, that hangs from it, it is for the socket, and in the socket is connected 4 wire cable to a huge air compressor for air tools, so it uses a neutral bar for both green and blue wires as they are also connected together at another end.

woody:
And here I was, thinking I needed to clean up my fusebox.

After seeing what it could have been, methinks I'm OK for now  ;D

Ice-Tea:
I redid my fusebox earlier this year. When we build the house over 10 years ago I took the box from the scrap heap, together with a few of the breakers. It was actually "good enough" but earlier this year I had to add a bunch of stuff and decided to clean up while I was at it.

Before:



After:



I actually have secundary boxes in the attic and garden house.


AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on October 07, 2022, 10:22:26 am ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on October 07, 2022, 10:20:17 am ---

Not always copper these days. Quite common to have copper coated steel or aluminium bus bars in the cheaper stuff.

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A nightmare to figure out the effective mm2.

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Not really an issue for the installer, you go to the rating of the main isolation switch. It's more an issue for the manufacturer, hopefully one they take seriously!




--- Quote from: Whales on October 07, 2022, 10:37:34 am ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on October 07, 2022, 10:20:17 am ---Hope your fire insurance is up to date, that is rough...

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Hmm.  I was thinking there are some potential electrocution hazards here (surface mount box lid comes off too easily, not all of house is on RCDs) but I'm not sure about fire risks.    Perhaps if a conductor gets loose in the box it has has a higher probability of the 2nd surface it touches being uninsulated?  Or something else?

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Yep, there's that, though quite often the argument goes along the lines of "if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't be messing around with that stuff".

From my pov, the fire risk comes from the increased oxidation causing bad contacts, which is more likely from having no backplate and no bus bar covers, though I guess humidity and rain might be less of an issue in many parts of Australia when compared to the UK?

The foxing on the labels does imply some level of damp exposure though.

Circlotron:
Occasionally you see pics like the following. Will be interesting to see if someone from a country that doesn't appear to have standards and regulations posts what their fuse box looks like.

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