nice to see you trying to save yourself Rick some time and effort there with the
Strut Slayr oh as well as these easy fit channel nuts as well however I've got a
question for you did you get the email what email looking behind you I would suggest with
those row of socket outlets you didn't however if you stay tuned I'll show you how you save
yourself time money and how you can overcome that issue we often find when trying to get an
RCD into an old three-phase distribution board so what's this email just get on with it Rick
you're doing that absolutely fabulous job there Rick but I'm sure
there is an easier way go on then do tell there's no denying you're doing a fantastic
job right you've got your four armored cables coming down because you see it don't be quite
a lot especially in new commercial buildings where you're unsure of what electrical supply the client
or tenant will need and we've got 110 230 400 and some 13 amp socket outlets what's the next stage
of this job yeah just to make our four glands on this end okay you say four glands this time I say
eight glands because there's actually four back at the distribution as well and there's also the RCDs
which I need to connect up to each circuit yeah and in a new distribution board that's probably
not too much of an issue even though they can take up a lot of room but that legacy board trying to
find RCDs to fit those can be a challenge now I don't like a challenge so I like to make my
life easy so I've gone away from the conventional cable tray I've fitted the rollatray from Metpro
as well as a handy little box that can get me out of trouble and talking to trouble Rick as
I look down here that email is coming back to haunt you again this is 16 amps client one is
32 unlike Rick I only had got one enclosure on the wall and I use the adjustable tabs on the back to
do so I've got the Varia box here from CEEnorm and it was built to my specification so I have
a 16 amp single phase socket outlet 110 volt one the 32 amp three phase one that Rick missed as
well as four 13 amp socket outlets the enclosure itself is IP44 you can also get IP54 and IP67 but
that's normally governed by the type of socket outlet that you're installing in the enclosure
the material it's made from is PBT polyester which means it's resistant from UV chemicals
extreme heat and cold as well as salt water before we open up the Varia box and explore what's inside
I'm going to show you the lid here so I'm going to unlock it by rotating these two and then I'm
going to push it fully up and it will lock into that position meaning you can reset your devices
or in this case have a look at them and they're all A-type RCD protection being offered but look
at this one push on the lid it falls down into position it's re-locked itself and maintained
that seal you can't open it back up let's open up this side first you've got a beautiful hinge
so I pull forward and I'll hinge it round like so and then what we've got is a slidable din
rail I don't see this very often you pull in each side of these tabs here hold on to my devices I
can pull them forward maybe I'm working on them or re-terminating the connection before pushing
them back into position so hinge open the second side it might be that you didn't want it to hinge
that way and you wanted to reverse the process and you can by moving these over to this side
you've got the beautifully wired loom as well and the connections go back into the outlets and all
use a screwless quick connect terminal however it might be that the process has changed it might be
that you want to change this socket outlet maybe for the 16 amp one that Rick installed how do you
go about that well that is really simple it's a case of removing these six screws and introducing
the outlet you require but just remember to always change your overcurrent protection
device to the appropriate one for the outlet that you install next my use of installation
and time saving continues on because I needed to pull one three phase cable in and one for the 110
volt also there was a threaded insert plate here which I took off and replaced it with the one on
the top to make that glanding process also easier but you're looking at it and thinking Gary you've
got your cable tray positioned alongside the wrong part of the enclosure because the isolating switch
and the fuse for the 110 volt are here I haven't because I can actually pass the cables through the
enclosure because of the holes that are in each section here so those cables will come down and
be dressed into the bottom of the main switch as well as the overcurrent protection device
for the 110 volts these enclosures are connected side by side but you could also stack them one
on top of the other and you can have almost any configuration that you can think up so to help you
out I'll leave a full link in the description below but you might have noticed this little
enclosure here and what's under this lid under here we have a HDMI so I can have a monitor in the
area a USB charging as well as a connection for a data point on the back side of it you can see
how there's an extra layer of insulation where you terminate your conductors I'm sure you're thinking
Rick could have got over his RCD issues if he'd fitted a socket outlet like this one here and
if you're wondering how this one links to an Ed Sheeran concert check out the video over there