EICR - Old Rewireable Fuse boards are these acceptable?

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Kelly Marie Angel:

I heard a story that a 5 amp lighting fuse in a wylex metal board ejected enough hot metal thru the little vent at the top of the fuse carrier   to create a short circuit that blew the DNOs 60  amp main fuse not just once but several times over the years  apparently there was a collection of dead 60 amp fuses on the floor of the understairs cupboard

That may have happened with a metalclad Wylex consumer unit. Was the 60 Amp. fuse heavily loaded at the time, thus assisting the blowing?

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+old++Wylex+metalclad+consumer+unit&docid=608044541727224394&mid=FD9A0F11EA66724B8365FD9A0F11EA66724B8365&view=detail&FORM=VIRE


Z.

Hahaha! I LOVE my Wylex BUT... when I move, (I sold my house and was some 10 days' from exchanging when the new buyers pulled out BUT, hahaha... they came back, this past Monday and, hahaha, wanted to buy it AGAIN, I said NO as the price has increased SO, you lot will have to wait for when I move to see how I've fitted the change-over for the generator... sorry for the wait BUT, haha, it'll be worth it with lotsa photos' too), I will have a new / modern CCU WITH... an RCD!! PROMISE!!


The thing is, if I'd let me son, before the new rules re; CCUs, came in... I would now have a new-ish PLASTIC fitted CCU in the under stairs cupboard ready to, perhaps, catch fire!


The thing about RCDs is...


1; You are supposed to reset them every six months', (who does that? Haha!)

2; There is supposed to be something like a 6% failure rate.

3; They can cause nuisance tripping... probably not a bad thing, really?


My sister bought a 25 year old bungalow, recently. In her kitchen she was getting lots of ShOcKs from her electric / low level oven! The RCD didn't trip out as it wasn't shorting out the RCD. I removed the oven and found the earth wasn't, (hahaha, as you lot already was thinking this...), attached to the oven. No one believed my sister, that she was getting bad shocks off of it but I did. Anyways, this could be life threatening, to her, lucky she's ok. 


I respect the need for an RCD BUT, I'm ok, at the mo!!


I did run, years' ago, a multi core PVC covered MICC cable, (spare core for a switch to operate the sheds outside light fitting, from inside of the house), but... I did fit an RCD for this so, I ain't that stupid, (BUT, others WILL disagree with this, haha)!


Hope everyone has a nice relaxing bank holiday weekend!!! 


regards... Tom ?


With regards to Chris P, too!


 

Zoomup:

Kelly Marie Angel:

I heard a story that a 5 amp lighting fuse in a wylex metal board ejected enough hot metal thru the little vent at the top of the fuse carrier   to create a short circuit that blew the DNOs 60  amp main fuse not just once but several times over the years  apparently there was a collection of dead 60 amp fuses on the floor of the understairs cupboard

That may have happened with a metalclad Wylex consumer unit. Was the 60 Amp. fuse heavily loaded at the time, thus assisting the blowing?

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+old++Wylex+metalclad+consumer+unit&docid=608044541727224394&mid=FD9A0F11EA66724B8365FD9A0F11EA66724B8365&view=detail&FORM=VIRE


Z.

Hahaha! I LOVE my Wylex BUT... when I move, (I sold my house and was some 10 days' from exchanging when the new buyers pulled out BUT, hahaha... they came back, this past Monday and, hahaha, wanted to buy it AGAIN, I said NO as the price has increased SO, you lot will have to wait for when I move to see how I've fitted the change-over for the generator... sorry for the wait BUT, haha, it'll be worth it with lotsa photos' too), I will have a new / modern CCU WITH... an RCD!! PROMISE!!


The thing is, if I'd let me son, before the new rules re; CCUs, came in... I would now have a new-ish PLASTIC fitted CCU in the under stairs cupboard ready to, perhaps, catch fire!


The thing about RCDs is...


1; You are supposed to reset them every six months', (who does that? Haha!)

2; There is supposed to be something like a 6% failure rate.

3; They can cause nuisance tripping... probably not a bad thing, really?


My sister bought a 25 year old bungalow, recently. In her kitchen she was getting lots of ShOcKs from her electric / low level oven! The RCD didn't trip out as it wasn't shorting out the RCD. I removed the oven and found the earth wasn't, (hahaha, as you lot already was thinking this...), attached to the oven. No one believed my sister, that she was getting bad shocks off of it but I did. Anyways, this could be life threatening, to her, lucky she's ok. 


I respect the need for an RCD BUT, I'm ok, at the mo!!


I did run, years' ago, a multi core PVC covered MICC cable, (spare core for a switch to operate the sheds outside light fitting, from inside of the house), but... I did fit an RCD for this so, I ain't that stupid, (BUT, others WILL disagree with this, haha)!


Hope everyone has a nice relaxing bank holiday weekend!!! 


regards... Tom ?


With regards to Chris P, too!