consumer unit

Hello all, I’m looking for logic check on some work I’m planning to do, it’s quite a read so settle in, but please check my logic, anything else I should do or check? First things first, no I’m not a qualified electrician but am a competent person, well at least more competent than the...

So the other day was in the main 12 way plastic MK CU in my house what is from around 2012/2013, I was doing some IR and R1+R2 tests to get readings on a circuit that I have done minor works on recently and noticed the removable bus bar cover was missing. How important is the bus bar cover and...

Hi all, I am from the Uk and last week I was over in the Costa Del Sol area of Spain visiting a friend. Now I noticed both in the hotel room I was staying at (which had a consumer unit) and at my friends apartment, most if not all the circuits were protected by double pole MCB'S versus the...

The other day I put a junction box in my lighting circuit. The circuit was off (it was tripped but the circuit breaker was in place), but when I went to turn it on the power wouldn't come back on. Trouble shooting wasn't obvious: power was going into the circuit breaker, it appeared to be...