RE: Consumer Units

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I'm planning to use a consumer unit per room with each consumer unit fed by
its own MCB in the main consumer unit. So far I've had no problems with
LD10's getting too hot in use even though mine are butted up against each
other in a MK Sentry consumer unit.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 February 2001 11:31
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Consumer Units
>
>
> Appologies for picking this thread up again, but I am still
> trying to decide
> what I need in the way of consumer units. I will have 19 LD10
> modules which
> cover 17 'Rooms' (including garage, outside, landing etc). I
> know that each
> LD10 needs to have a spare 'slot' on one side to avoid over
> heating. However
> I am not sure how to work out the MCB's. Should I have one
> per LD10 (seems
> like over kill) or one per room or one per logical group of
> rooms or one per
> floor (3). Also am I better off getting several smaller
> consumer units (like
> Mark has displayed on his site) or one or two larger units
> that can take 40+
> MCBs. Finally the installation instructions for the LD10 show
> the wires
> going to/from the momentary switch(es) and the live/neutral
> wires, what it
> doesn't show is where exactly a MCB would fit in (especially
> where I have
> several LD10s connected to a single MCB). Does anyone have
> any diagram or
> photos of this sort of set up that I could see ?
>
> Thanks for any assistance
>
> Graham
>
> P.S. I will not be doing this work myself, as you can tell from the
> questions I am no electrician, but I do want to understand
> this in case the
> electrician knows nothing about X10.
>
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