RCBO spacing

[Murdochcat]

please give us some examples of wylex component failures

Mcbs , rcbos and RCDs

 

[EFLImpudence]

RCBOs are RCDs.

 

[JohnW2]

Remember an EVSE is NOT a charger, but a chargepoint. The Onboard Charger is in the vehicle.

How pedantic can one get?

 

[JohnW2]

Experience based on having to replace more Wylex products than any other

As I said, and illustrated, anecdotal experiences vary considerably - hence are no sensible basis for widespread extrapolation.

Of course, the relevance of your observations/experiences depends critically on the proportion of the customers you deal with who have Wylex products. If more of them had Wylex products than any other brand, then one would expect you to have replaced more such products than any other brand, even if there were, in fact, no differences between brands

 

[plugwash]

Getting back to the original question, my thoughts are that with the rise of CFL and LED lighting, lighting circuits never run at anything close to full load. So the way to account for breaker heating without losing spaces would be to put breakers for lighting circuits in the slots next to breakers for sustained high loads.

 

[blup]

Avoid Wylex is my advice

Whats the problem with Wylex?

 

[JohnW2]

Getting back to the original question, my thoughts are that with the rise of CFL and LED lighting, lighting circuits never run at anything close to full load. So the way to account for breaker heating without losing spaces would be to put breakers for lighting circuits in the slots next to breakers for sustained high loads.

That would make good sense.

However, I suppose there was also some sense in the 'old fashioned' practice of putting all the highest-current circuits close to the origin of the CU (i.,e. the Main Switch), in which case the lighting circuit(s) would (today) all be together at the 'far end' of the bus bar..

In any event, as I've said, with the possible exception of immersion and storage heater circuits, it's probably unusual for even one (let alone several) devices to be loaded close to their nominal rating for appreciable periods of time in a domestic installation.

I suppose the ideal would be for the devices to be designed and manufactured such that they could happily sit next to one another whilst 'fully loaded' - and I would think that would be too difficult, given that one hopes that not much heat will be generated within them, even when 'fully loaded'!

 

[Risteard]

How pedantic can one get?

It's important someone with an EV understands how they actually work.

 

[JohnW2]

It's important someone with an EV understands how they actually work.

I don't think that the average user of an EV has (or needs to have) much understanding of "how an EV actually works", any more than the user of a petrol-fuelled vehicle has (or needs to have) much understanding of "how a petrol-fuelled vehicle actually works" - or, since you were talking about the supply of 'fuel'/energy, maybe an understanding of "how petrol pumps actually work".