Help identifying MCB (*Pics Added*)
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I'd concur with Plugwash. I just did some work on a SquareD board and they had three different generations of breakers inside. I managed to replace a BS 3871 Type 2 with a BSEN 60898 Type B, which I sourced (pricey, though) from The Fuse Company. Although slightly different in design and appearance, the old and new breakers sit easily in the unit.
SquareD's newer products have a more usual screwed busbar connection, so make sure you order the old style, as in your photo - round clip at bottom for location rail and vertical busbar clip at the top.
SquareD's newer products have a more usual screwed busbar connection, so make sure you order the old style, as in your photo - round clip at bottom for location rail and vertical busbar clip at the top.
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ok so they are a little pricey but not insanely so.
thats the price you pay to obtain items that aren't in common use anymore, keeping stocks of a huge range of obsolete items is an expensive buisness.
yes if you are replacing a whole boardfull it would be cheaper to replace the whole board but how often do you replace most of the breakers in a board anyway?
thats the price you pay to obtain items that aren't in common use anymore, keeping stocks of a huge range of obsolete items is an expensive buisness.
yes if you are replacing a whole boardfull it would be cheaper to replace the whole board but how often do you replace most of the breakers in a board anyway?
Thanks guys I couldn't see the wood for the trees.
I have checked the consumer unit again and the bottom metal clip attaches to a plastic bar and the top clip which is also metal (but doesn't look like it my pic) attaches to what must be the busbar.
I have checked the consumer unit again and the bottom metal clip attaches to a plastic bar and the top clip which is also metal (but doesn't look like it my pic) attaches to what must be the busbar.
andrew2022 there are four strong reasons i doubt that
1: i have NEVER seen a mcb where the entry and exit connections are on the same end.
2: it would be very unusual for two breakers to be so similar and not be replaceable
3: the original poster has confirmed the bottom clip clips onto a plastic bar
4: the bottom clip doesn't look substantial enough to be a current carrying part.
1: i have NEVER seen a mcb where the entry and exit connections are on the same end.
2: it would be very unusual for two breakers to be so similar and not be replaceable
3: the original poster has confirmed the bottom clip clips onto a plastic bar
4: the bottom clip doesn't look substantial enough to be a current carrying part.
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