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Well when your adding the Henley blocks to split the tails you'd install a isolator before that. Your making it out to be a big thing. You've already got the supply off to split the tails haven't you?. So just add an isolator too.So as an example if i was asked to add a garage supply to an existing installation where the main consumer unit does not have sufficient ways i would have to......
A) ask the d.n.o to attend one day never to isolate the supply at the head.
B) Install a main switch in a metal enclosure after the meter before splitting the supply at the henley.
C) Charge the client again for another s/fuse unit to protect the supply to the garage.
D) Charge the client again for another board within the garage which also has another d/pole main switch within.
In total we have now put in 3 points of isolation for a garage!!
TBH i can't see the point of this switch between the meter and henley. Both boards have their own isolation. With a single board your isolator still does not isolate the supply upstream. Putting an isolator before the henley block still does not kill the supply upstream of it.
For example It gives an ordinary person a quick and simple way of isolating the installation in an emergency etc.
I don't know why your mentioning the supply up stream, are you getting mixed up. IF there is one consumer unit then the main switch in that is fine, if 2 consumer units then there needs to be one point of isolation, as is the discussion. So an isolator would be fitted.
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