What's This ?

[mikep]

My stepson ripped this out of a house the other day, made of bakelite by siemens with live neutral in and out with an earth terminal, a solenoid wired across live and earth which disconnects the L/N , think it might disconnect when supply fails and will only connect with a manual reset.

Anyone got any idea's

 

[apprentice87]

Yep, bigger photos might help...

john..

 

[kerching]

Contactor, via a time clock, for off peak heating?

Just saying

 

[Doc Hudson]

Voltage operated earth leakage breaker?

Doc H.

 

[mikep]

There was no external controls for it just tails in tails out and earth connection, as I said solenoid wired between Live and earth which is attached to the L/N contacts, fairly beefy made Rated 500 volts 100amps

I think I'll get it back off him and look at it a bit more to try and understand what it does.

 

[ProDave]

My money is on voltage operated earth leakage circuit breaker.

 

[Manator]

Earth leakage breaker, it has the test and reset buttons for testing.

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

My money is on voltage operated earth leakage circuit breaker.

A Scotsman putting money on something, he MUST be  correct  ;

 

[Mark2spark]

Yeah, looks like the old TT up front devices. 100 milli amp if I remember correctly... sorry, what was the question again?  ROTFWL

 

[Doc Hudson]

A Scotsman putting money on something, he MUST be  correct  ;

It is my understanding that Prodave is an adopted Scotsman, having moved up there from somewhere down south. So he is not a true Scotsman through and through. This may explain his willingness to risk a gamble with his money? I apologies if I am incorrect.

Doc H.