3 row consumer unit

M cebee

Do GE make a 3row euroline board

or is there an alternative with plenty of space for wires

Am i right in thinking thr 3row has the same breakers as 2 row and 12 more spare ways

meercat

not sure
garo do a nice 3 row board
g line g39/7
loads of room for terminals
neat enough with door
(have one in the van,thats where the code number comes from
same as 2 row with extra blank row

indie armada

hager do a 3 row board (sbe900)and it has the same ammount of breakers as the two row and the third row is empty.
the two row is a 26 mod and the 3 row is a 39 mod....according to the catalogue

2011

I like the 2 row Hager boards myself. Generally 1 is to small for a house so I often linked 2 of them by mounting them side by side. The left hand one contained the main switch fuse and everything that did not require RCD protection. The right hand side would have all of the sockets and immersion. RCBOs for things like an instantaneous shower would be installed in whichever side had most space. The earth bars were linked across both boards with panel flex. The 2 neutral bars in each section were also linked with panel flex providing a large main neutral bar and a large RCD neutral bar. This meant lots of terminals for all of the circuits with nothing doubled up.

M cebee

might try and get a hager then

those garo breakers have the nonsense with a halfway setting if i recall

2011

M cebee wrote: »

might try and get a hager then

those garo breakers have the nonsense with a halfway setting if i recall

I have never been a Garo fan. I have found the terminals too small and hard to tighten, mainly on isolators.

I found it easy to buy whatever I want for a board from Hager making everything match. This always looks better. I also like their pin type busbar.

Bruthal

meercat wrote: »

not sure
garo do a nice 3 row board
g line g39/7
loads of room for terminals
neat enough with door
(have one in the van,thats where the code number comes from
same as 2 row with extra blank row

Put this same one in myself on a large extension last week, the owner wouldnt go for rewiring the upstairs of house even though the extension and downstairs was about 80% of the entire job, so we put the existing circuits on its own row on the bottom, seperate from the new work.

The earth bar is a bit too small in it, not enough termnals. Not bad other than that.

M cebee

always found the hager stuff good and the rcds always seem to operate ime

i noticed on a large commercial premises - a very high percentage of schneider rcds not operating via test button(stiction)

GreySquirrel

Hager do one called Gamma. There is a 13 module: 1 row, 2 row, 3 row and 4 row. They also do an 18 module in the same selection of rows, though I'm not sure if this is available in Ireland.

They also have a new trunking product that is as wide as the Gamma and the board can go on top of the trunking or if you remove some of the board cover the trunking slides into the board.

http://www.hager.ie/service/downloads/964.htm

.G.

M cebee wrote: »

might try and get a hager then

those garo breakers have the nonsense with a halfway setting if i recall

not a Garo fan myself either but to their credit they don't do that halfway setting rubbish anymore.Their new breakers are just like all the others out there.