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Would advice the cabinet if outside just as good practice. While I can’t remember any specific regs for that one it would still come under making sure what you are installing is appropriate for the environment it is in.Good morning guys
Was looking for advice with regards to installing an outdoor consumer unit. Customer is looking for power to be installed from there property to an area in there garden. There installing a future hot tub and summer house and any future lighting and power. They currently have a small log cabin where I was going to situate a 4 or 6 way consumer unit which can feed any future points. My question is would it be best to fit a standard 18th edition metallic board inside a ip Rated cabinet? I've seen online there are ip65 consumer units which are plastic but obviously that wouldn't meet current regs. I'm just wondering if there is any other things to take into consideration with regards to temperatures
Any advice would be appreciated
Not sure what system you are on but you would also need to check your Ze readings to make sure the earth extension (from the supply) doesn’t make it go above the required level of 0.35 or 0.80. If it does it would need its own earth rod as it may not comply with the required trip times on the new ccu breakers.