so i'm going to start this video with a rant gary okay a rent yeah i am not happy at all last week
i went down to see the house of the future okay it's a little bit like the truman show
yeah well when i got there i was not happy with what i saw inside okay this sounds like a 180
degrees turn away from ground and air source heat pumps in gordon yeah the heat pump's fine and that
is i think the future we can we can debate that we saw those ground source heat pumps in whales
air source heat pumps big box goes on the outside of your house yeah right and the manufacturers are
working hard obviously to minimize the size of them make the design as aesthetic as possible
yeah and then somebody goes and plonks two red and yellow isolators in a prominent position on
the outside okay so they're suggesting those air source heat pumps require an emergency
isolator and we don't think they do so please leave your comments below on that one but you
think design-wise you've come up with one that's maybe more pleasing to the eye is that right yeah
on two fronts so yeah we'll get that emergency isolator out of the out the way at first yeah
we think it should be a gray and black isolator okay so gray and black isolate so if i'm
remembering correctly there the isolators that lock in the off position and then the
isolators you can lock in the on position where obviously the red and yellow ones we can only
lock them off can't we go yeah that's it so think of that scenario so this one you can't lock it on
right yeah so what what would what would your son possibly have done gary well thinking back through
experience obviously we had a normal standard socket outlet in the garden feeding things such
as pumps okay important to leave those on and if you left him on his own he'd be a little bit
of a devil he'd go around turning off switches he had a thing for switches so imagine he could
go to that isolator and possibly turn off the air source heap and provide it in that position
yeah and yeah we know you you're not so fond of one of your neighbors in particular
you could come back late at night and decide to just exercise your right and turn his heat pump
off overnight i could i could so it's my advice to him would be to make sure if you're fitting
an s or a heat pump use one of these because obviously you can lock it in the on position
okay which is important and obviously in the off position when someone comes to do some maintenance
on the heat pump so again we don't think there's a reason to fit an emergency one no in that location
at all and design-wise obviously that being gray and off-grade that matched the heat pump that you
saw obviously as well didn't it it did it did but when we talk about design right okay design
this one from scame has been designed okay so what suggests it has been designed well as i often say
a form follows function right okay so let's start with the front nice flush front isolator there but
if i turn this one over on the back it actually has been designed because it says on the back here
Trussardi and Belloni design oh right okay they're true italian names i would suggest you
you're probably thinking of the ferrari factory and the new ferrari comes out the gazino okay
designed by those those two gentlemen wouldn't it yeah so obviously we can say this is as geeky
as you'll ever get i think this is possibly the most the best looking isolator i've ever seen
but obviously as i said form follows function yeah some of the great functions obviously having
that switch recessed in there means it's less susceptible to damage obviously does look a lot
better on the outside of your house yeah and those ones that protrude aren't they often the ones that
have got a screw in the center and i've seen it before when you've had an emergency style isolator
that doesn't need to be necessarily emerging when they take that screw out and leave it don't they
in that position on so nobody can come a long time yeah yeah you have to remove the remove the
red handle because obviously when someone does come along to do some maintenance they can't uh
can't switch it off or have to get the pliers out which is obviously not very good practice
and at that stage it's very hard to lock it off yeah it is so when i'm thinking about now actually
using it we've used these over in the other studio we've been fitting our enviroevent extraction
system we've chosen one of these isolators to fit in there so we've got to play around with
it let's go through some of the great features we think when we're installing it yeah so this
great feature so it starts with the front cover obviously safety first you can only remove the
cover not just by taking out the four screws in the corner but it has to be in the off position
open it up and you've got captive screws at the back okay so that's always a classic and you
take a cover off this one and the next thing you're scrambling around trying to find those
screws yep and they hold the gasket in place and then obviously under the gasket if we look
at the rear of the enclosure the actual fixing screw locations are under the gasket as well
right so we're not having to drill through the back of the enclosure to maintain to the wall
which means it keeps its ip rating does it yes it is and for ip ratings on this one is ip66
right obviously jet to water and then we step up to ip69 for hot jets of water so if you're
in the food industry and things like that okay and then we think about the holes to get into that and
we drilled some holes into our enclosure and they nicely set those out as well where they would like
you to position it and the size of hole they can position in that location as well as having holes
uh positions in the back and in the other side of the bottom but there is no top and bottom is that
no it's completely reversible so you can yeah you can use the ones that are pre-marked with
the drill positions for different size of obviously common cable gland or you've got
some more regular looking knockout positions on the bottom if you're here looping in and looping
out okay um yeah that's so that's well thought yeah but you can put it either way and you can
put the lid on either way which i'm not sure you can do that on all isolators i think there
is a definite top and bottom um but also as well if you're thinking of that first fix yes install
you can remove easily remove the switch mechanism from it so that gives you a couple of benefits
it gives you more room in which to obviously work when you're trying to gland into it also doesn't
it from a maintenance point of view if for some reason you had to replace that isolator maybe you
were changing between a two a three or a four pole one you could just clip in and swap out can you
or maybe under maintenance you have to change it all together yeah and if you're
if you're a regular ascami user you'll notice oh what we noticed is the actual switch mechanism
in here is the same one we had on that grp software that we looked at in a previous video
and is installed also outside uh this building so yeah bags of room in there you're not very
easy the good thing as well this isn't sort of a there's only really one position that
switch can go right yeah so a lot of sometimes you'll see a din rail in there you can slide
yeah and you can't align the mechanism up this one as long as it's in the off position just yeah
you're locked in and you're ready to go so lots to like about it uh when we think about current
range we've got the smaller enclosure here which goes up to uh 20 to 40 amps okay yeah
and there is a larger size that takes us up to 63 to 80 amps and there's a few different pole
options isn't there yeah there's the two pole the three pole with switch neutral okay and a
four pole as well isn't that yeah so we'd uh be interesting to get your thoughts on that we were
three pole plus neutral and then a four pole yes is there a difference between them yeah absolutely
yeah comment below on those we'll also leave a link for that other video when we installed the
sky me socket outside as well above our head or in the description as well won't we yeah
so pretty robust uh obviously thermal plastic um and it's ik9 so okay pretty strong pretty solid
unit another thing dear to our hearts here at efix is that torque setting and on the isolators it's
0.8 newton meters of torque and when we go in and start talking about you see that cage clamp
coming down and clamping on terminations yeah high quality yeah high quality terminations they also
give you the torque setting for the front cover as well obviously that is quite important and people
sometimes forget if you over tighten the gasket you can actually cause a water ingress problem as
well but all in all this is a fantastic range of isolates and i would argue again possibly the best
looking isolators that we've ever seen okay the other end of the spectrum is down here is there
any reason why we've got this one on the table well this is the for the viewers really so we also
were sent when we had a look at these isolators this one is for fire rated equipment so this
isolator will obviously keep going in a fire situation right okay so i'm thinking this possibly
used on the smoke extract systems yeah but however we're always open to your comments if you fitted
this kind of isolator we'd love to know some of the applications that you've been fitting it for
but for now what do you think of this gorgeous looking isolator here what do you think about
the use of obviously the the grain the black uh in those more maintenance-based situations
what do you think of heat pumps in general as always we're interested in your feedback okay
on these isolators from Scame have you fitted them before do you think they're as beautiful as
gordon no no no i'll rephrase that do you think they're as beautiful as gordon thinks they are
please leave all those comments below and i'll try and get back to as many as i can