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Can someone help me identify what this this please? I think it is some kind of fuse I was told. What is that, how does it work, what is it for?
I don't know anything about electrics, so would be great if you can explain it to me

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Can someone help me identify what this this please? I think it is some kind of fuse I was told. What is that and how does it work?

No idea..
Tried zooming in on your images but they are too poor quality in my opinion!!

Why are you asking..?

What is / or what was the problem..?
 
Henley service fuse of some type. From the pics you can only surmise that the fire has melted the cut out it was in and the heat has probably made it fall out.

The fire investigators will be able to tell you more. But to start with I wouldn't touch anything until given full permission from any relevant authorities.
 
Henley service fuse of some type. From the pics you can only surmise that the fire has melted the cut out it was in and the heat has probably made it fall out.

The fire investigators will be able to tell you more. But to start with I wouldn't touch anything until given full permission from any relevant authorities.
What is a Henley service fuse? Where is the main overload fuse?

This is an aftermath of a fuse board fire. I have attached pics of the burnt fuse boards/consumer units.

The EICR was done 12 months before and replaced the 1 plastic consumer units with a metal one, and the other consumer unit was metal already.

This was on the original report that they remedied:

1 4.2 Plastic DB C3-‘Improvement Recommended’

2 non ip rated bathroom light C2-‘Potentially Dangerous’
Urgent remedial action required

3 no grommet strip where cables entering a metal consumer unit C2-‘Potentially Dangerous’
Urgent remedial action required

4 bus bars to close together C2-‘Potentially Dangerous’
Urgent remedial action required

5 2.5 radial bunched in a 32amp ring C2-‘Potentially Dangerous’
Urgent remedial action required

Thanks to everyone who has replied
 

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Fire report says it started from from overloaded/damaged electricity consumer unit.
Should the fuse/switches in consumer unit trip to prevent overload?
 
So you say this started as a fire in a consumer unit.

A very important question here, did it start in the NEW metal consumer unit, or in the existing one that was not changed?

The whole point of a consumer unit is to provide circuit protection so no circuit can be overloaded, the protective device will trip first. Clearly that did not not happen.

And a few years back wiring regs changed to ensure consumer units were fireproof, which all manufacturers took to mean metal, to contain a consumer unit fire. That worked well in this case then, NOT.

Which consumer unit is a very important question, and following on from that is what paperwork was supplied with the work done, and possibly those questions will lead on to what is his public liability insurance details......
 
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