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Consumer units and equipment outdoors

vantech

Hi,

Anything inherently wrong with installing consumer units outside? 

IP rated (IP65/66).

The plan is to install henley blocks into the exterior meter cupboard, and a supply taken to an IP rated lockable enclosure on the wall directly below the cupboard to supply an outbuilding.  

How does the sway in temperature impact MCB and RCD functionality? They all seem to be rated to sub zero temperatures and in excess of 40 degrees. 

Anyone with any extensive experience doing this? 
 

Thanks. 

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    gkenyon: 
    The recommended approach is an IP55 drain plug (sometimes known as a “breather vent” or “vent drain”).

    I need to install a 30 m length of steel conduit which will run partly outdoors. Does it need drainage holes? If I just drilled at the lowest point, I am concerned that any burr inside the pipe would damage the cables.

    I wonder whether it would be wise to use one of these vents at the first and last BESA boxes before the run goes outdoors?

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    gkenyon: 
    The recommended approach is an IP55 drain plug (sometimes known as a “breather vent” or “vent drain”).

    I need to install a 30 m length of steel conduit which will run partly outdoors. Does it need drainage holes? If I just drilled at the lowest point, I am concerned that any burr inside the pipe would damage the cables.

    I wonder whether it would be wise to use one of these vents at the first and last BESA boxes before the run goes outdoors?

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