oh so gary looks like it's another glorious day here on the skipton riviera why have you brought
me out into the industrious yard here at line side studios i've brought you out to a maya my newly
installed SCAME 16 amp industrial socket outlet did you install it i'll watch somebody install
it yes you did and there is a separate video that follows the installation of this product
as part of our conduit series i'll leave a link in the description below and you'll see gary watching
somebody work and offering some gems of advice during the process so why is this Scame socket
outlet so well suited for us when we say live streaming outside well when we think about the
outdoor environment this is where the material it's made from comes into play so this is a grp
socket so it's glass reinforced polyester and we're going to take a bit of a deep dive into
you know how it works and the advantages of that material
but let's start with that temperature range gary so we here you know skipped and we're well known
for our high summer temperatures we could be up at plus 60. up the ying and yang of the weather also
means we could be down at -40 in winter and that's where that material comes in the Scame socket can
handle those temperatures they're not temperatures that we ever see here in skipton but give me some
practical environments where i may be choosing this socket outlet okay so think of lots of
industrial applications temperatures one thing we think about but also i think grp is resistant to
mechanical abuse they're incredibly rock-solid units that we'll see shortly but then that other
advantage what i'm saying when we start thinking about the chemical environment
and its resistance to lots of different types of quite aggressive chemicals so i'm starting
to think chemical works and things like that going and the problem comes when all of these
happen at the same time extremities of temperature probably salt water obviously and chemicals at the
same time is that right yeah and then throw in the sunlight if you're outside so yeah so that
probably one of the best applications for this is those sort of marine environments sewage treatment
plants you know anywhere where there's yeah not places you might want to go on holiday but
that's where we're thinking you'll be using this type of socket also this Scame Advance socket
has a feature that makes electrician's life easier so i recommend you stay on to see what that is
now that's what i mean by tough when it comes to grp right okay so you can withstand the hammer
blow it's actually got an ik rating as it was i guess yeah Ik10 which if you want to
get really technical is equivalent to dropping a five kilogram weight from 40 centimeters above the
product and that normally goes onto the sensitive areas like the switch and yeah so it's probably
way above that when you consider i mean that is yeah that is a thick bit of plastic okay warm me
next time we're going to do something like that we talked outside about those environments and
that links into its ip rating so what's his ip round of the enclosure okay so this comes with
ip66 IP67 and IP69 ratings okay in previous i've learned that that doesn't mean because you get IP69
you actually get given the other ones as a freebie do you no they're all separate in their own right
so ip69 is hot jets of water okay yeah and then often a little bit of confusion comes in when you
look at 67 and 66 because 67 is immersion in water temporary immersion in water right 66 is high
pressure objective water so some products may pass a 67 test but not a 66 so therefore always look
for on the manufacturer's product like we've got here is all of those ratings together which means
they've done all of the tests for those different scenarios so that's quite a lot of tests in order
to get that stuck onto the front of this enclosure and it matches those environments doesn't it yeah
and they've been quite clever how they do it let's say there's a there's a nice robust gasket
around this product shall we have a look at that you can see there you can see the gas oh yeah seal
around it you'll notice all of the fixing screws to fix it the back box or outside of that nice
stainless steel screws there as well so yeah you get a concept of the single piece gasket as well
you can't see any little there's no brakes and it's a continuous seal so that's a fantastic piece
of engineering in order to get to that stage isn't it yeah i mean this range has got everything you'd
expect with this obviously type of industrial sorry now there's obviously the color dictates
the voltages and we've got a yeah every 110 to 400 volts here and obviously all the different
phase arrangements current wise what range do we go on current wise gary 16 to 63 amps however you
can get one that looks slightly different which is 125 amps yeah so yeah the the 1663 all come in
this common back box assembly the 125 onward has a different uh different arrangements in terms
of its back box but let's have a little look at this back box here because that's quite clever
the back boxes are bought separately installed as part of the first fix but this gives us immense
flexibility now in our installation yeah it does because obviously you can choose the voltage and
the current rating later or you can change it possibly as the installation goes on little
feature on the back box itself the mounting screws that mounted to the surface are external from the
ip seal so you're not having to drill through the enclosure which again helps you maintain that high
ip rating um so let's have a look at the um the front socket i've got a 230 volt version here
um but if i flip it over you'll see it's made up of a number of other compartments so here's the
socket and the isolator and that just nests into the housing and you just push that in there
and obviously you're free to wire it and then you bring in your the front
part of the assembly which has got the interlock mechanism in between the isolator and the socket
obviously making sure you can only energize it when there's a plug inserted but that is
robust again that just just slot that onto the front
so once that's slotted into position now we could change our mind can we we could find
that we didn't want a 230 volt socket whether it be us or the customer that wants a change yeah
as we know factories things change process has changed you may want to swap that out so again
i can swap this front take this back assembly off the housing is still secured to the wall
and we bring in a new one so what have you brought in this is a three phase
400 volt socket outlet again so attach the inner housing so you can see there's our
three phases in neutral so that drops in nests in and again bring our front housing in
the process itself is now changed to now 400 volts yeah and the back plate stays in
place doesn't it yeah but what i really like about this because of this modular nature
so say you'd add some damage to the isolator you can change the obviously the front housing or you
can change your socket assembly without having to change everything and obviously grp is quite
an investment in terms of uh when you're putting these into an installation it's good to have that
interchangeability and ease of maintenance so what you're saying is that switch here could maybe fail
over time you could just replace it keeping all the other elements in place and that obviously
cuts down massively on cost of maintenance we saw there the single bat box arrangement but they do
do other variants don't they yeah you can have multiple uh back boxes so it's a common black
box to take uh obviously different arrangements of sockets and you can also add an expansion to that
as well to allow it to put circuit protection in there as well gary so if you weren't putting your
circuit protection back at your distribution board you could have it local to the outlets themselves
yeah and we've got i think we've got the entry level model here you'll notice there's a little
there's a little blanked uh blanked patch there where you can have an led indicator
right and scame do have some quite sophisticated systems that um that will obviously that isn't
just a power on off it will detect phase loss and some other quite clever features
as you step further into this range i noticed also that i could lock it in two positions i could lock
it off but i could also lock it on yeah so that's quite a useful feature uh you know obviously some
in some cases we're looking in industry you've got critical processes you don't want somebody
necessarily getting a little bit trigger happy and switching the wrong switch off at the wrong time
so locking on is great and obviously it's color coded accordingly because here's a different uh
scame isolator which is an emergency isolator i'll recognize that from the two colors yellow
and red so that being an emergency isolator you can only lock it in the off position yes that's
right yeah and that's obviously how you uh this one isn't an emergency isolate it's functional
but yeah that facility and that makes sense then you've got an air conditioning unit you've
got an outside industrial socket you don't want someone to come along and necessarily pull it out
and therefore turn it off but you can't just pull them out can you no you can't pull them
off because obviously these are interlocked socket outlets as well and again you go back
to your motors there gary these are rated all the way up to ac23 so suitable for highly inductive
loads in terms of switching and yeah but you can't accidentally pull the you can't just pull it off
on load no that's good in it so you have to put it in before you can turn it on okay and likewise
then you can't get it out great feature there's loads of great features within this sky me socket
and we love them all however it's all about your feedback what did you think of these
did you know they existed leave your comments below have you got a job coming up where you think
now all of a sudden that the flexibility of these back boxes and the customer you're working with
will suit you down to the ground please leave all those comments below he's going to hit it again
and we'll try and get back to as many as we can