Best CCU is Schneider...Oh no it isn't. Anyone tried Chintz?

[telectrix]

try getting 12 2.5mm T/E cables up past the left hand N bar on an easy9.

 

[EbolaSideRoom]

try getting 12 2.5mm T/E cables up past the left hand N bar on an easy9.

As the actress said to the bishop?

 

[Jjc]

Hager all day long, Chint is a budget product.
Never fit MK the main switch is the wrong end so when you do the breakers up they slant to the right.

MK used to be the best now it is s***

 

[paulcopeman]

Only time I saw a chint install I was testing it for an EICR and lost every one of the RCBOs blew up when I tested them. I had to go back and replace at least 80% of all the RCBOs that were in the board.
I'd never use Chint.

 

[MJPD29]

Same company as MCG from cef which is the second worst board I've ever fitted with only proteus behind, so wouldn't touch them at all

 

[telectrix]

Only time I saw a chint install I was testing it for an EICR and lost every one of the RCBOs blew up when I tested them. I had to go back and replace at least 80% of all the RCBOs that were in the board.
I'd never use Chint.

what did you test them with.... a hammer???

 

[Bobster]

what did you test them with.... a hammer???

1000v IR test

 

[DPG]

Only time I saw a chint install I was testing it for an EICR and lost every one of the RCBOs blew up when I tested them. I had to go back and replace at least 80% of all the RCBOs that were in the board.
I'd never use Chint.

What tests were you doing when this happened?

 

[Bengaz]

We've used Chint for 6 months now. We have fitted over 100 boards, we have never had one single failure of any component.
We got stuck last week and fitted an MK board. Absolutely horrible after using chint. Prices are exactly the same too.
Our inspector recommended solid links on a TT system (without a main time delay RCD) therefore Chint was the only make I could get at the time with the solid links, These solid links IMO are WAY higher quality that any board sporting the shitty flexible (messy) links.

 

[DPG]

Ooohhh, he swore!!!

 

[EbolaSideRoom]

We've used Chint for 6 months now. We have fitted over 100 boards, we have never had one single failure of any component.
We got stuck last week and fitted an MK board. Absolutely horrible after using chint. Prices are exactly the same too.
Our inspector recommended solid links on a TT system (without a main time delay RCD) therefore Chint was the only make I could get at the time with the solid links, These solid links IMO are WAY higher quality that any board sporting the shitty flexible (messy) links.

That’s interesting. Did your inspector qualify their recommendation for solid links rather than flexible for TT installations?

 

[EbolaSideRoom]

And I have to agree, inside those Chint boards do look tons better than MK (or Hager, for that matter, or Crabtree...)

 

[Wilko]

Hi - Inspector may be thinking about the flexible leads coming loose and flopping about inside the metal CU. Not likely to happen if they're tightened up in the first place, just saying.