this could be the best mechanism i've ever seen
smooth
well Gary i'd like to present you with a present oh finally some recognition for all those years
working in the electrical industry thank you Gordon and you might think it's a bottle
champagne it certainly looks like one hope it is but as Joe Robinson described in earlier
videos this is the champagne of the electrical industry it's the Proxima socket from Scame
and one of the finest boxers on the outside we've ever seen inside is one of the finest enclosure
systems that we've seen as well and we're going to take a closer look at it in today's video okay
let's get this one out there it is a fantastic box and inside it is a fantastic enclosure and
you've already suggested at the very start of this video you love the mechanism we'd
love your comments so please make sure you fire them in below which great features do you like
on this uh product from Scame yeah so yeah the mechanism yeah it's one of the
standout features because lovely and smooth but actually the whole product is lovely and smooth
because obviously in industrial environments sometimes we're worried about dust and dust
gathering in places but yeah here's just revisit that mechanism it's got no edges and bits that
protrude and that continues when you look at the switch as well it's flush with the body so it's
again not likely to get damaged in that industrial environment and then down to the socket itself
so again open that up there yeah so here's another clever bit so obviously you turn it to get the
IP66 67 or 69 rating yep we've looked at a lot uh the difference between them on the channel before
but interesting feature if you actually leave this open because people tend to be a little bit lazy
sometimes and i just leave that in that position it gets an IP54 rating oh wow that is really good
i noticed at the very top there we have no over current protection devices fitted so should we
whip the cover off and start discussing those sorts of things yeah so i'll just have a look
in there so this it comes as either a socket version okay or you can have the top version added
where you're right you can add circuit breakers it also has an enclosure option as well where you
might want to put contactors in there and things that you don't need to access behind the panel
and again this goes back to your comments i think that's a fantastic idea having your RCD protection
especially we're almost impossible to get away with it not having it on a socket outlet circuit
even though this one goes up to 63 amps doesn't it okay there's different slightly different
arrangements when we get to that level for RCD protection but we go back to the distribution
board we look in there and we're now thinking oh we haven't got any RCDs in there or any RCD
protection we've either got to try and order that overcurrent protection device or try and fit it
in isn't it a lot easier to have it local to it and we made our challenge really difficult
as well didn't we for our RCD for this one yes we did yes we've we've got here a type B we can
fit that and try and just something i'll leave that there yeah try and get a type B in anything
let alone to match the distribution board in the installation where you might think a type
B is needed we might be a little bit early with this one but as RCDs are developing and
the protection required and the different types we think type B will become a lot more common as the
years pass so you're undoing this enclosure so the other challenge there Gary you've described
an RCD but obviously back at the distribution board you have to combine it with some other
current protection as well which means you need a combination of RCD and MCB and try getting that in
something that fits in a three-phase board and you're into either very large units or
and quite expensive units okay so let's get the enclosure open then i'm getting pretty excited
something else that's a nice little touch you know yeah so there's uh Joe Robinson's
lost an excuse there there's a spirit level inside yeah Wonky Joe will be pleased to see
that obviously we've got our ability there to just pop things onto that rail okay open it up
is it pre-wired it is pre-wired as well all right okay that's brilliant and it saved ourselves some
time we've seen these before haven't we yeah as we look in there we've got a torque settings clearly
on the front as well something else eFIXX likes yeah this is pre-wired so you just take that up to
the chosen circuit protection that you need it's an interlocked socket so obviously we can't uh
operate that at the moment because it's got no switch in it okay got a socket there we're
gonna put the plug in here okay yep and then we can operate it okay and then we can see
our interlocking device just do that again for us yup see that mechanism moving yeah
nice robust unit but look at the corners you know this is like you know when cars went from square
to nice smooth round edges and we saw the finer details that is beautifully detailed doesn't it
thinking back to your Sierra Gary i am yes when the Mondeo came out with all those curvy edges
um and then to look at the enclosure itself some of the clever features on here uh in terms of
mounting sort of external mounting okay yeah so external mountains on that so that means we can
maintain the IP rating i'll bring the camera back in for that that's really good isn't it
so the IP rating continues because we've got these external yeah so you're not drilling
through the back and yeah impeding that IP rating and again we've got two at the bottom to latch in
all right so you drop them on as well yeah that's good so that's good and then look at the end we've
got it's pre-marked for various sizes of uh cable entry yeah and we've seen another isolate as we've
done on the channel we'll leave a link to those videos we've made as well i like that so nice
subtle but very good touches yeah so it saves you have to measure things out and then again
that carries on on the uh on the bottom of the unit as well Scame don't miss much out do they
yeah so we've got a single version here you can get different combination bases so again you
could have multiple socket outlets on the base and obviously that paired with different distribution
options and again that's a big saving if you're an industrial application so i think you had a
range of sockets you wanted in a common location you might have a three-phase you might have some
single-phase sockets traditionally if you're taking all those back to a distribution board
three cables bigger containment as we've done in our own unit here we bring in one cable
and separate the circuits locally with local circuit protection and earth leakage protection
that can be a very uh it's got you covered in it it's got you covered and a big big time server
and a big obviously cost server when it comes to that as well yeah one cable and then pick
your overcurrent production devices you're not worrying about actually the installation you're
currently inheriting as well yeah and again just look at another little feature on the enclosure
obviously we see this on on quite common on this type of enclosure it comes pre-punched out with
two modules yes but you can see you can obviously punch out and take it up to four modules as well
and maintain that rating yeah that's nice it's sealed as well yeah let's see or you bring your
b to the RCD and you've got five modules i think you've got two whole ones and then two half ones
at the side as well so that's good pretty rare moment i see a b type of RCD as well doesn't it
get excited about that Gary yeah i was excited about this this is this is beautiful and we saw
it in the other videos don't we high end how can we make an isolator look beautiful we saw
that black and gray one didn't we where we had it against our air source heat pump and it just
blended in beautifully top design what did you think about the Proxima socket that we've shown
you today have you already fitted one and you want to leave that in the comments below what
great features did you see on here and you want to share them with the community on ones that
we may have missed please leave those in the comments and we'll get back to as many as we can
let's get this book back together it's nice innovation