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| DrGeoff:
Internal and external boards. In Aus, not far from Dave. |
| Black Phoenix:
--- Quote from: Gyro on October 10, 2022, 09:15:00 am ---Many (most?) older UK homes have the mains feed coming in under the stairs, so have the consumer unit in the same place - directly under a wooden primary escape route! There are many videos on the subject. High drain items like high kW electric showers and EV chargers only make the problem worse. --- End quote --- Yeah thanks everyone for the replies, I forgot that in the UK the cable entrances in the houses are always in awkward to work places, mostly inside or under cabinets and stairs. In Portugal all entrances of old houses are in main corridors with a door to the outside of the house (could be the main door house corridor or a backyard one), close to the door, with the entrance and fuse box high, close to the ceiling, then the cable coming down to the meter, from there to the main CU and then going back up to the ceiling, through it and running in the loft, coming down each room from there, normally outside of the wall. Only in the 70s/80s internal wall routing were starting to be common, with the consumer unit in the main corridor closet the door. Nowardays it is a common cabinet, at chest height (around 1.2m to 1.5m from the floor) that can or not be combined with a multimedia one for Ethernet and CATV/Satellite star network. If it is not combined then the multimedia it is an extra CU lower in height, close to the floor. Mostly are in-wall assembly in metal, but can be plastic and secondary CUs are normally outside wall plastic or metal. For heating is always piping inside the wall, hot and cold, connected to a gas heater or a electric boiler. Could also be in newer houses a electric heater with a hot water reservoir. |
| nibblebyte:
Fusebox and parts of heating solution in 1st and 2nd floor. Water is heated from heatpump. The air conditions use more power that the heating solution... (heatpump much more effective than the air conditions.) Heatpump is Panasonic, Air Condition is Toshiba. House is built 2014. |
| newbrain:
A flat in Stockholm, built 2007. A lot of breakers for 60 m2, Huvudbrytare is the main, three phase breaker (Huvud = head). A single three phase 30 mA RCD (JFB - Jordfelsbrytare, ground fault breaker) protects the whole apartment. Electric stove gets the full three phases, regular loads are distributed. Meters are not generally accessible (a couple of representatives in the building have the keys to the service rooms). Very clean wiring, no exposed live contacts, everything properly grounded, a spare breaker (number 12), a nice amount of room for Ethernet and cable TV distribution (the panel has a separating wall), utility sockets. Quite a nice job, I'd say. I'll post my Rome panel in some days, just for comparison. |
| MarginallyStable:
Interesting to see how it is outside Yankee territory. Here is my 200amp service, pretty much filled up. Once I get a pic of my network setup, I'll start a similar topic on that!! |
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