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Consumer units and equipment outdoors

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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: 
    We're similar distance inland, but I think it depends on the wind in the area as here it brings in both sand and spray. A lot of our property, including garden, is quite exposed, luckily all rendered.

    The area we are in is quite flat, back about 15-20 miles inland before the Pennines, and some of the effects are found that far back. It's quite obvious which of the inland areas are affected by the wind off the sea, because many of the trees and hedgerows find it very difficult to grow in any direction except pointing East (and even then, they are not really very tall).

    We don't get sand 'cos the beach is pebbles. There is some shelter from the Isle of Wight, but the prevailing wind is SW, which can sneak between the Isle and the New Forest. The coastal plain is flat as a pancake for about 5 miles. Everything grows well!

    Step-daughter lives on the other side of Morecambe Bay on the eastern side of the Furness Peninsula, even closer to the sea than us and indeed they have sea views, but they don't seem to have much of a problem.

    I suppose that the real issue is latitude, prevailing winds and shelter. Either way, I have spent nearly all my life on the coast and I like it. ?

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    gkenyon: 
    We're similar distance inland, but I think it depends on the wind in the area as here it brings in both sand and spray. A lot of our property, including garden, is quite exposed, luckily all rendered.

    The area we are in is quite flat, back about 15-20 miles inland before the Pennines, and some of the effects are found that far back. It's quite obvious which of the inland areas are affected by the wind off the sea, because many of the trees and hedgerows find it very difficult to grow in any direction except pointing East (and even then, they are not really very tall).

    We don't get sand 'cos the beach is pebbles. There is some shelter from the Isle of Wight, but the prevailing wind is SW, which can sneak between the Isle and the New Forest. The coastal plain is flat as a pancake for about 5 miles. Everything grows well!

    Step-daughter lives on the other side of Morecambe Bay on the eastern side of the Furness Peninsula, even closer to the sea than us and indeed they have sea views, but they don't seem to have much of a problem.

    I suppose that the real issue is latitude, prevailing winds and shelter. Either way, I have spent nearly all my life on the coast and I like it. ?

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