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PostPosted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:48 pm 
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What I was trying to say...the vast majority of peeps reading this will be shopping at B&Q or the likes..MK include the sleeving, other manufacturers dont...B&Q charge a small fortune for short lengths of sleeving, which are included with the MK units...

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:dunno: i pay about 15 pence per metre, locally...

B&Q a small bag of 10 cm pieces, about £2 from memory....


...just making a comparison..does save having to remember the earth sleeving...



£4.50 for a 100M of 4mm at wholesalers


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We use crabtree as a standard accessory, used to use the cheep stuff but its not worth the callbacks. Starbreaker consumer unit are the best in our opinion too and we have fitted 100's of them with very little problems. The MCB's are now a Siemens pattern since electrium was brought out by them.



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it was Sparky james that recommended me trying crabtree units, i did and i have used them since :thumbright:



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it was Sparky james that recommended me trying crabtree units, i did and i have used them since :thumbright:


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I'll bet most who buy from B&Q don't know what the little bits of tube are for and throw them away anyhow! :lol:

Christ knows what the make is thats been installed in my bugalow....it was MCB or something. A 12 way, but seemed to have lots of room inside at least. It was one re-branded by CEF apparenlty. Wouldn't have that tat in my own house, but I'm not going to complain when it's free!!! :lol:

I can never get my head around the colours of the MCB indicators myself. When they are off, they have green squares and red when they are on. Green to me means GO or ON, but in this CU, it means OFF - red is on. Doesn't make sense......

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Indication of the state of isolation. red= danger, green=safe.


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that's a strange way of defining it BG?

you have actually contradicted yourself :mrgreen:

yes as SJ said, you have said green is go, red is stop.....

green is as traffic lights..go because it is safe to do so. undertake any work you want because it has been turned off and is safe to go.

red as traffic lights, stop. it is live so it is not safe to proceed.


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