TODAY I am replacing an old consumer unit with faulty MCB’s and a broken cover. Here is how it is done step-by-step in a Spanish installation. I am using Chint switchgear. Step 1: Make a note of what you started with, i.e. label and identify the sub-circuits, where do the cables enter the box, etc. Step 2: Mark and cut the hole for the new back box covering...
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UNDERGROUND CABLE faults are generally the result of damage caused to a cable either during the installation or from excavation by workmen or mechanical diggers. Damage caused by a digger was the case in a recent job to trace a mains supply cable fault that had resulted in the loss of the electricity supply to a customer’s property in Callosa. As was discovered,...
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HERE IS a night storage heating system that I installed in a 2 bedroom house using 3 x 900 Watt radiators. The night storage heaters are supplied by a Spanish electrical manufacturer called Elnur. The models in the photos are the Gabbaron ADS 168/14 especially designed to be used together with a time-of-day rates tariff such as Iberdrola´s Day & Night Energy...
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