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Multi-way domestic switch fuse: does anybody make one?

Scenario is intake in a store room: the other part of the building, which forms the front boundary of the plot, is the garage.


25 mm2 SWA supplies the house, which is at the back of the plot, and the intention is to protect it with an 80 A switch fuse in the hope that it will provide a measure of discrimination should a fault occur in the house (max 32 A MCB). Clearly there is plenty of choice here.


One option for supplying the garage is to put its CU adjacent to the intake and connect the tails to it (via Henley blocks) but Sir would prefer to have it in the garage itself. The distance back to the intake is unlikely to be less than 3 m, which rules out the possibility of putting the tails through the internal wall.


So if the CU is to be in a separate room, it seems that a second switch fuse is required. It would be so much neater if there could be one device with one switch and two (or more) fuses. I cannot find one, but does such a beast exist please?
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  • I had a similar problem at home - intake in the cellar so wanted two submains - on to the main CU upstairs in the house and another out to the garage (and room for a 3rd if I ever got a workshop). Couldn't find anything ready-built so ended up putting 50x22 DIN rail fuse carriers in a box along with some terminals and isolator and a bit of bus-bar. Not entirely to the letter of the regs but the council electrician didn't even blink about it for the part-P inspection.


    Another possibility might be a 3-phase switchfuse - but using a single-phasing kit to put all three fuses on the same phase - but last time I looked down that road it was going to be rather an expensive approach (and you'd have to be careful to make sure the N wasn't overloaded - e.g. use a 100A rated unit even though you might only want 63A or 80A fuses.


    But otherwise, I agree it's a messy solution of henley blocks and several single-way switchfuses.


      - Andy.
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  • I had a similar problem at home - intake in the cellar so wanted two submains - on to the main CU upstairs in the house and another out to the garage (and room for a 3rd if I ever got a workshop). Couldn't find anything ready-built so ended up putting 50x22 DIN rail fuse carriers in a box along with some terminals and isolator and a bit of bus-bar. Not entirely to the letter of the regs but the council electrician didn't even blink about it for the part-P inspection.


    Another possibility might be a 3-phase switchfuse - but using a single-phasing kit to put all three fuses on the same phase - but last time I looked down that road it was going to be rather an expensive approach (and you'd have to be careful to make sure the N wasn't overloaded - e.g. use a 100A rated unit even though you might only want 63A or 80A fuses.


    But otherwise, I agree it's a messy solution of henley blocks and several single-way switchfuses.


      - Andy.
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