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Cracking pictures by the way.
Thats brilliant Andy ..................... now put it back together ..............................and test it ! :C
after looking at all the bits, i decided it was probably best not to try and put it back together. but if you really want to get it together and working again, ill post it to you
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No no thats alright Andy .... you hang on to them ...........one day in the far distant future you could be travelling on a Starship when the engine stops and the Scotts engineer will burst onto the flight deck shouting " We're all doomed Captain the coils have failed in that old ELCB ....I did warn Starfleet but they wouldn't listen , we'll never get back to Earth now , those things are unknown in this part of the universe"
And then you realise , your moment of fame has come . " Pardon me Captain but I think I can help here ....for I am The Canny Geordie." You swagger over to your tool kit..... you open your tat box....you reach inside for the coils you have saved for just this moment .....and they're not there !!!!! Steptoe has flogged all the copper to the Klingons at the last stopover!!!!
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Deke have to ever considered writing books?
I'll take this apart some time out of interest:
The contacts and switching mechanism are well engineered.
With the trip disconnected and the test button blanked off they make a great load make / fault break incoming supply isolator. Far better than MK’s feeble offering.
OK guys, think about this.
A residual current circuit breaker, and an earth leakage circuit breaker both do the same thing.
They detect any residual current to earth, or any earth leakage current.
Anything marked with a residual/actuating current rating is what we now call an RCD.
This would obviously normally be in mA.
Of you look at a VOELB then there will be no residual (actuating) current rating.
However, both a VOELB & an RCD detect current flow to earth, an RCD detects it directly by current flow, a VOLEB, detects the current flow by the rise in voltage.
Once is better than the other...
A residual current circuit breaker, and an earth leakage circuit breaker both do the same thing.
They detect any residual current to earth, or any earth leakage current.
Anything marked with a residual/actuating current rating is what we now call an RCD.
This would obviously normally be in mA.
Of you look at a VOELB then there will be no residual (actuating) current rating.
However, both a VOELB & an RCD detect current flow to earth, an RCD detects it directly by current flow, a VOLEB, detects the current flow by the rise in voltage.
Once is better than the other...
dont chew them.... use a knife instead...
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So....if parallel paths can make the VOELB potentially dangerous by not guaranteeing it reaches it's tripping voltage, hypothetically could you reduce the parallel paths in an installation to make a VOELB viable now?
Just thinking out loud here.....
Would they be safer on a TT i.e with no incoming earth? Plastic pipework would help.....
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I think that there is a possibility of them re-appearing on electric vehicle charge points.
No thanks, you can try it if you want.
As an apprentice we spent several Saturday O/T shifts removing VOELCB’s and fitting RCCD’s in our estate houses after a near fatality caused by one going open circuit. Ironically it was an electricians wife that ended up in hospital.
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