so today we're looking at salamander distribution trunking from Legrand
i love products that make electrician's life easy i'm going to enjoy this one hold on i'll
just stop you there yeah for the last 19 years when you were teaching students about trunking
did you ever let them near a prefabricated joint absolutely not we made our 90 degrees and we made
our teas and i even wouldn't allow them to use the fixings on the lid that to cut the sections out
that had no fixings on right but what happens in the real world well you go over obviously to your
wholesaler you buy all the prefabricated pieces and you look to make your life easier i didn't
suggest that i was making students life easier in the intro i suggested this makes electrician's
life easier and it does doesn't it gordon yeah this is uh yeah i mean obviously there's a lot of
instances where yeah you need to get your IP rating right and what what what IP rating do
we mainly worry about now for trunking in this situation here where we're installing pvc single
insulated cables within a trunking system that needs a tall or deliberate action in order to
enter it we can look at the regulations we can guarantee that old favourite BS7671 521.10.1
so in this situation yeah trunking now has to be IP4X so we're looking at either depends on how you
want to phrase it objects exceeding one millimeter in diameter cannot enter the enclosure or you
reverse the oral process and say objects of one mill and below will enter it obviously in order
to work out this ip it's really difficult though especially when lids come together and where we
come to these prefabricated bends & tees etc isn't it is but that's where this system is really
easy because i guess yeah the easy way to get ip4x is buy a system that's designed to make compliance
with ip 4x easy right okay so let's have a look what we've got here and let's highlight some of
those key features that i found make electricians life easier and i would suggest make students i've
taught before life disappointing now I would suggest let's have a look here we go so where
would you like to start do you want to start with the lid the lid well yeah i've gone we'll go with
the well okay the lid so here's the lid these turn buckles are brilliant yeah okay so they're
they're currently positioning so the arrows are both pointing out as if it's in a locked position
so you're gonna get a screwdriver and turn those around for me no I'm just gonna click the lid on
ah job done satisfying you'll see in there and the clever bit is
these little springs okay so that springs down onto it and i take it it's about seven turns
in order to get it off is that right it's just a quarter turn to remove it
a quarter of a turn and a quarter of a turn and that lid will come flying off I like it
there you go oh yeah so do the quarter attack you can do it again you're going to do it again
i knew you were good at it again yeah satisfying so you got them lined up that's how it comes
as it comes there's a lid that's arrived and all you're going to do is just pop them into position
he's going to live crazy okay okay that's great okay and then this is
this is sometimes an issue isn't it this is where we're going to start struggling maybe
where we're joining lengths of lid or we're looking for it so you're coming into an actual
accessory we've got your hand now so this is the IP4x cover strap okay finish the process
you just click that on that is it that's it so now that section there where the lid met this t piece
now hasn't got a gap here and we've managed to get it up to ip4x yeah you know you did cut those
pretty good gary there's not much of a gap in there i was like hoping that people would comment
below how well i got those done because i yeah i spent some time making sure i got them as close
as i can but what happens then is there's always a little bit movement so obviously between the lid
and the tee and the 19 or the rest of it and once you've left that installation them caps do appear
over while you cut them isn't it yeah so that clip that looked really difficult to fit wasn't it yeah
really easy pop straight over and that would be the same if we were using it to join two lengths
wouldn't it yes it would okay so we've got 50 by 50mm trunk in here which is obviously the one i
was familiar using up at college it goes up to 300 by 300 in this range and you've got every
accessory you could probably imagine within that range as well yeah but all the ones you'd expect
you don't want you can turn direction we need to look at this one yeah this one's really good so
my trunking lid comes out of this obviously this 90 degree and it's facing that way and then we've
got this section here that means i've rotated the lid yeah let me come around here yeah you got it
in your hand you've got another one again that's a standard accessory yeah and it comes pre-slotted
they're all slides aren't they the trunking itself and the accessories are slotted trunking it
slightly depends on which accessory you've got but yeah trunking comes with these slots which means
when you actually connect it to one of the brackets okay so bring your slotted end in
okay that's secured into position and you pull it out again that's easy
and then we just tighten those up don't even have to take them out do you and what is good
about these screws again there's another little feature there that saves electricians time yeah so
it's that they're all in so you're not on the uh they're all backed out are they back down so you
don't have to slack in anything there's a tiny little bit of what looks like loctite on there
okay do you want to take one out for me so i can see that you're dead right so what we're finding
is they're not coming in a separate packet made of plastic and they're not coming out and dropping
off are they so not having to hunt them around for yeah so it looks like a little bit of loctite
there to hold it in place so it doesn't shake out in transit or shake out when you're trying to
uh try to install them so you're not gonna be yeah the old sound of a of a bolt dropping down the
ladders or off a scaffolding tower and it's little features like that in it the back out screws that
don't fall out that actually start to save that electricity's time we absolutely love the lid as
you've shown it several times there going on and coming back off again what do the regulations say
about the lid well 521.10.1 the cover shall only be removed by means of a tool of deliberate action
it's all those little details that are obviously going to make that installation
considerably faster along with the fact we meet which ip rating again just remind me ip4x
there's going to be a time however when you're going to have to start fabricating this so there
might be a time when the lid needs cutting and you perhaps need to put some more turnbuckle
clips in or maybe you've cut a length that no longer has the slotted end on it so of
course that easy fit that you just showed us is a slightly different process should we cut to that
you've got the milwaukee band yeah battery-powered bandsaw but if i don't get it straight i'm sure
you're going to call it the milwaukee yeah we're going to struggle with this
nice clean cut edge we're going to fabricate a custom length of trunking here so it means
we're going to have to add the holes for the end accessories yeah but they're thought of everything
because there's a little template to help us do that oh that's good yeah so you just put that
on to get the exact drill position yeah nice yeah block of wood in place and obviously going to pile
it out first before opening it out because it's a lot easier when we've got our slotted ends so
this is when we're having to pre-fabricate okay absolutely what do you think i'm going to do next
i think i'll probably put a spray paint actually restore that galvanized end finish yeah get that
into position before obviously now we're going to need to remove the bolts from the strap now on
this joining piece and introduce the two yes this is the first time i've had to do that isn't it
that's only because yeah you're fabricating this custom end the rest of the time you don't need
to do any of this no slots in a treat though and obviously we're just going to tighten these off
like so again i like the way you can use a screwdriver or a socket and there's the example
of the socket so you can see when we've got the slot in there i'll bring my eight mill socket in
and just tighten them off and do anything what's nice about this then that's that returned edge on
there so it's not going to catch your fingers or potentially damaging care yeah that's good
and if we were to have to remove these um say you were fitting them in a different position
within the lid or you wanted more frequent ones you just easily pop them out of position so i'll
do the pair of them they'll show you how you'd prefab them how would you get them into a lid so
now all of a sudden i need some holes in different positions i'll use the original one as a template
and i'm going to mark that round and then i'll drill out it's about a 14.1 mil hole so i've draw
it drill out 14 mil and then just open it with a pile of deferred let's see that so yeah pilot hole
again always find from experience taking your time
at the first hole means you get it in the right positions
and you'll see how easy this is just to bum in yeah and the way they spring into place it's
fantastic yeah look how easy it is just pop the last one in and that's some of the prefabrications
also real simple you're right gary this system is 50 faster to install when fitting end-to-end
lens together or to fittings than its previous version and that's been independently validated
by the building services research and information association obviously that's a lot quicker because
all of the fittings as well have those quick fit and turn buckles on them as well yeah
look at that just clicks lovely into position the t next clips down like so yeah wonderful
well that almost took me back to my college days because obviously i did the prefabrication at
that stage what do you want to do now it looks like you're a screwdriver now you're going to
take that off again take that cool lid off again once again just look at that return
edge on the top there yeah so that's a that's a key bit
doesn't hurt your fingers and it's not going to damage your cables as well
and yeah i like the template as well again that's just a neat little thing to bring into place it's
mounting holes in the place it seems too long to me so why is it so long well that's up to the
300 by 300 gary so yeah you could practically sleep in a trunk and that's that big ah thanks
for that so yeah that's yeah that slots on the end and we saw it in the video didn't we that
they've made even the actual fabrication process easier by giving you things like that template
but as always here at efix we're interested in your feedback and even more so on this because
we're having this trunking fitted in our uh studios in the next couple of weeks somewhere
we are passing you around team electrician eddie oh he gets on with it but yeah well he
was the one who suggested we take a look at the salamander trunking in the first place he did so
we're not only we've had a quick review of it here we're also going to look at some other trunking in
the range as well in another video we have so this is ip4x yes legrand also do an ip55 rated metal
trunking that we haven't seen before but we'll look at in the next video okay and hopefully
then we'll see some footage of when eddie fitted it as well because there's nothing better isn't in
the electrician than asking him how he feels about this style of trunking we think it's fantastic we
think it'll make electrician's life easier and we love that efix even though college students have
to do it the hard way you agreed your feedback's really important to us are you currently fitting
this trunking from the ground okay if you are and you love it or there's a real gem in there
within their range that we haven't mentioned and you want to share it with the community
please leave that in the comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can