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Consumer Unit, Flashback, flashback, flashback.

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If you remember these you are just too old?


Whilst viewing there is a prize for the first viewer who spots and identifies the mistake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUyjPosp6g8


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    ebee:

    Hoy mister! I remember those old wylex, I fitted a few, the white ones threw some folk a bit when the "red rocker" main switch became up for ON rather than up for OFF. I remember one bloke returned one to the wholesalers with the main switch in bits because he had taken it apart to change its orientation thinking it was faulty and he could not get the switch back together.

    Around that time wylex changed the N block from two screws per circuit to one screw per circuit but still leaving the L from fuseways with two screws each.

    Happy days.

    Push button MCBs too.




    Good morning ebee,

                                       yep and we didn't hear about many consumer unit fires with the old "plastic" Wylex fuse boards/consumer units or even with the wooden framed ones. It was a fire resistant hard wood after all. A good reliable product range back then. The two push button M.C.B.s were very reliable. One button to turn the device ON and the other to trip it OFF. A nice decisive confirmatory click could be heard as well............... I liked the double screws per terminal, they made for a very reliable connection.


    Edit. I have just remembered. When the Wylex main switches used to be up for OFF they were mechanically biased to the OFF direction. One little touch used to turn the switch OFF. When the position was changed to up for ON, the mechanical bias stayed the same, it was not altered, so a brief brush to the switch by hand or finger tended to turn the switch to the ON position. I didn't like that.


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    ebee:

    Hoy mister! I remember those old wylex, I fitted a few, the white ones threw some folk a bit when the "red rocker" main switch became up for ON rather than up for OFF. I remember one bloke returned one to the wholesalers with the main switch in bits because he had taken it apart to change its orientation thinking it was faulty and he could not get the switch back together.

    Around that time wylex changed the N block from two screws per circuit to one screw per circuit but still leaving the L from fuseways with two screws each.

    Happy days.

    Push button MCBs too.




    Good morning ebee,

                                       yep and we didn't hear about many consumer unit fires with the old "plastic" Wylex fuse boards/consumer units or even with the wooden framed ones. It was a fire resistant hard wood after all. A good reliable product range back then. The two push button M.C.B.s were very reliable. One button to turn the device ON and the other to trip it OFF. A nice decisive confirmatory click could be heard as well............... I liked the double screws per terminal, they made for a very reliable connection.


    Edit. I have just remembered. When the Wylex main switches used to be up for OFF they were mechanically biased to the OFF direction. One little touch used to turn the switch OFF. When the position was changed to up for ON, the mechanical bias stayed the same, it was not altered, so a brief brush to the switch by hand or finger tended to turn the switch to the ON position. I didn't like that.


    Z.


     

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