Saturday's cu change

[M107]

This is the job in a flat where customer supplied the new cu.

The old cu flush skelly board.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/OLDCU.jpg

The met with ring cpc's in black singles. The ring is wired in singles in conduit.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/RINGCPCINBLACK.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/INSIDEOLDCU.jpg

Circuiut conductors extended & new cu hosing up

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/NEWCUGOINGIN.jpg

New cu loaded & tested.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j293/gazjothomas/NEWCUIN.jpg

 

[Apache]

Neat job!

 

[M107]

Thanks patch

 

[sparkytim]

Are they Wylex MCB s?

 

[M107]

they are

 

[bulmer]

How on gods earth do you make them look so neat. I'd be there all week trying to make it as tidy as that.

Credit to you

 

[septiclecky]

Good job only one remark and that is there seems a bit oo much copper showing on the main neutral termination to busbars.

 

[batty]

M you make it look so easy. I bet that was not a five minute job, looks good though.

 

[M107]

M you make it look so easy. I bet that was not a five minute job, looks good though.

Started at 08:30 done & tested flat tidied & van packed up by 12:30, no brew breaks just bashed the job out & moved on to the next job of first fixing a new bathroom @ a property 10 miles down the road.

Got home at 19:00ish had a shower then a few :Y

 

[M107]

Good job only one remark and that is there seems a bit oo much copper showing on the main neutral termination to busbars.

Gotta leave something septic

Just glad I had cable ties on board otherwise Lurch would have had me gut for garters if I'd used tape again.

 

[batty]

Started at 08:30 done & tested flat tidied & van packed up by 12:30, no brew breaks just bashed the job out & moved on to the next job of first fixing a new bathroom @ a property 10 miles down the road.Got home at 19:00ish had a shower then a few :Y

4 hours good work and not a straight forward one either.

 

[Lurch]

Just glad I had cable ties on board otherwise Lurch would have had me gut for garters if I'd used tape again.

I noticed the cable ties, well done, top marks!

 

[M107]

How on gods earth do you make them look so neat. I'd be there all week trying to make it as tidy as that.Credit to you

A bit of planning with cable routing & cable ties.

I strip outer sheath route & loom both seperately & tie with cable ties, connect cpc's & neutrals in turn to corrisponding numbered terminals, mark the line conductor numerically 1-2-3-4 etc etc, to corispond with neutral & cpc terminals.

Once all neutrals & cpc's are in I run the line conductors between thumb & finger to remove kinks, bend into a neat loom behind mcb's cable tie in place & connect the line conductors to mcb's while forming the high loop.

Take picy have a brew & give self satisfying slap on back for a job well done

 

[paul b b]

nice job M.

should the circuits not have been split between the rcd, it look like they are all on one

 

[revjames]

Looks a very neat job, I suppose you used the void behind to extend the circuits. What sort of joints/connectors did you use?

 

[M107]

nice job M.should the circuits not have been split between the rcd, it look like they are all on one

Property is a one bed flat so only 5 circuits (4 if I hadnt split the door bell tranny from lights).

Lights are on rcbo the sockets / cooker / boiler & doorbell tranny are on the rcd side.

 

[M107]

Looks a very neat job, I suppose you used the void behind to extend the circuits. What sort of joints/connectors did you use?

Yes use the skelly board back housing to enclose circuit extensions, also bonded the old metal casing to met of new cu.

To extend I used insulated through (butt) crimps & heatshrink.

 

[Voltimax]

How much of your time did you spend on the testing?

 

[M107]

Well the place had a total of:

7x sockets

6x pendants

1x boiler fcu

1x ccu

1x door bell tranny

And the flat was totaly empty so no hunting accessories or shifting furnishings, all on my todd so no other distractions.

no more than 1.5 - 2 hrs tops

 

[bengie]

nice and neat

this is a flush metal Wylex board i connected up in the depot on a new install:

the flash made it look like there is more copper visible on some sonnections, odd.