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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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    double pole bus bar is neater. Shame I have not heard of anyone using them



    For my own use, I did put together a couple of DP busbar CUs - mostly using Garo components. The gotchas were that the single module RCBOs only went up to I think 25A (certainly not 32A), so ended up in one with a mix of 2 module and 1 module devices, which wasn't quite as neat as I hoped. I did like having a single earth bar across the full width at the top too - so much tidier having the c.p.c. terminated right next to the corresponding L&N. One downside was that the busbars were really only rated for 63A (fine for me as both were on the end of 63A fuse submains) so might be restrictive in the general case, and of course my PFC was well within the capabilities of the individual devices.


      - Andy.
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    double pole bus bar is neater. Shame I have not heard of anyone using them



    For my own use, I did put together a couple of DP busbar CUs - mostly using Garo components. The gotchas were that the single module RCBOs only went up to I think 25A (certainly not 32A), so ended up in one with a mix of 2 module and 1 module devices, which wasn't quite as neat as I hoped. I did like having a single earth bar across the full width at the top too - so much tidier having the c.p.c. terminated right next to the corresponding L&N. One downside was that the busbars were really only rated for 63A (fine for me as both were on the end of 63A fuse submains) so might be restrictive in the general case, and of course my PFC was well within the capabilities of the individual devices.


      - Andy.
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