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Wylex dual tarrif CU availabilty.

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As I do not really do much domestic nowadays, I am after a bit of a steer from those that do.

I need to organise a neat arrangement in a flat with not much wall space and economy 7  (and 2 supply sub mains  in T and E that look like they have been pulled in by a crocodile using its teeth but that is something else. I feel can some hefty SWA and an adaptable box where the flat meets the common area coming on.)


Wylex claim to do a dual tariff consumer unit, that looks in the pix very like their current single phase one but with two main switches.

Given the dual supply option seems rare as hen's teeth, and the single phase and dual RCD ones are ex stock in every distributer nearby - has anyone fitted one ?,

and if so, is it the same internals , or is there more to it?

I am happy to buy a spare bus bar and an additional main switch (it will be 100% DP RCBO), but do not wish to be suddenly snookered for the want of an additional neutral block or something equally basic.

Also, has anyone ever sunk one into the masonary ?






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    Just as a random thought - it struck me as a pity they implemented dual tariff isolation as two separate DP switch-disconnectors - when it might have been neater (or at least less confusing and probably safer for the uninitiated) to have them linked as single 4-pole unit instead - just like they do with their "PV" range.  I don't know if their PV isolators link the two sides together, or if they do whether the links can be removed to make to fully (electrically) independent DP switches - but maybe modifying a PV type might be a possibility. No idea if the PV range is any less fictional than the dual tariff one though.


    Life could be so much easier if there was a modular system whereby you could just select the components you needed as assemble them as required, without having to worry about restrictive type approvals...


       - Andy.
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    Just as a random thought - it struck me as a pity they implemented dual tariff isolation as two separate DP switch-disconnectors - when it might have been neater (or at least less confusing and probably safer for the uninitiated) to have them linked as single 4-pole unit instead - just like they do with their "PV" range.  I don't know if their PV isolators link the two sides together, or if they do whether the links can be removed to make to fully (electrically) independent DP switches - but maybe modifying a PV type might be a possibility. No idea if the PV range is any less fictional than the dual tariff one though.


    Life could be so much easier if there was a modular system whereby you could just select the components you needed as assemble them as required, without having to worry about restrictive type approvals...


       - Andy.
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