SCHNEIDER Acti 9 THREE PHASE DISTRIBUTION BOARD INSTALLATION
We've installed a Schneider Acti 9 isobar P distribution board as part of our industrial unit rewire. We get some top installation tips from electrician Eddie Clemmens.
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📹 Presented by
Gary Hayers - Editor eFIXX
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Eddie Clemmens - Pegasus Electrical
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You have to give credit where credit is due I’ve been in the Electrical game for over 20yrs and that’s a neat board that guy needs paying in gold bars
I would always torque up connections. Lovely job with the board Eddy. You can't beat Schneider gear. Thanks for sharing.
These Acti 9 boards are the mutts nuts, very cool little features in the board and generally very nice looking, we’ve been asked to install a few now for this reason 👌👍
That's a very good tip for neatening up 3 phase distribution boards. I will use that.
When's the SPD video coming out?
Those whia digital drivers are brilliant have some myself. Huge fan. Also great to see Eddie on the channel. Anyone give any grief send them my way as Eddie is a champ!
Thanks Mark 🦾💕🦾
Anyone give any grief and send them your way? Cringe 😬
@@rjb5667 thanks for sharing. Cringe....
@@rjb5667 great input thanks
Hi mark, they look indeed very beautifull. Maybe I got to order that one for work !
The new little bosch go (Gen 2) is perfect for this kind of work ... set the torque to make sure you dont over tighten and it makes it quick and easy ... it takes a little getting use but once you get the hang of it .
Hi Guys, any idea when you will be uploading the stand alone video for the SPD, mentioned on Eddy's Board?
I find that moving the wire at the bottom from side to side to make sure it is seated properly ... prior to doing the final tensioning of the screw is just as important as the torque ... especially when installing larger gauge wires.
Great job. Iam also an electrician. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
4 sets of torque screwdrivers , this man is Serious , man don't mess around blud !
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Haha
The problem with SPDs with TPN boards like these are that the earth bar is at the top, so keeping to the
Such great kit.
Great video, did you ever release the standalone video of the SPD connection?
I noticed he uses the correct bit while using the wiha screwdriver ... but changes to a standard pozi driver while using the torque ? Dont wiha sell the correct bit for the circuit breakers ?
Torque screwdrivers really are an essential piece of sparky kit, esp for industrial work. 80% of faults are down to loose wires.
Or incompetence, never use a torque and never had a problem
Pretty standard stuff there, decent job. I like that he actually mentions cable grouping inside the board, im sick of seeing bundles of cables tied together so tightly they nearly merge. Loosely spread is the way. Far to many Instagram electricians thinking that pretty means good!!...When in reality ( unless all those cables have been massively upsized ) are making a nice fire hazard.
Thanks for the comment. I've always done it really tight, I don't think in such a large panel the heating would matter. But your comment and the video has made me change my habit.
Plus on the installs cables are mostly stuffed into trunking creating a grouping factor not really any different to the db
@@timdavison640 spot on trunking is the enemy with grouping especially horizontal runs. Not DBs. Total myth in many cases started by those who sit behind a desk.
Believe me on 3 years old housing development in London I carried out EICR and if I could show you the heat on neutral caused the colour changed where every 5 inches there is cable tie yes looks neat but as you say it is hazard for. Heat dissipation
Unless the circuits in question are run close to max operating temp. I don’t see a problem with grouping inside a dis board
I am confused how the neutral is connected to the iso-bars for the double pole breaker for example?
Great video, really neat work! When will the video for the SPD be out??
I noticed on the German machines that I have commissioned ... the sparkies put a red dot on the breaker ... I hear it is to verify that they have torqued the screw ?
Interesting video and it just looks like the MCBs are in the wrong way round but they’re not.
Would have been nice to see boot lace crimps and cable ferries used. Also think be better to slot board and trunking.
Can I ask what the purpose of the double pole MCB is in this installation? I have never installed one and I'm wondering what scenarios would mandate their usage. Thanks
That particular breaker is for a test house we are planning to build within our unit. The DP MCB will also serve as an isolator.
Why do you put a fuse on Neutral?
Does anyone know if the stand alone video for the surge install ever came out. I can't seem to find it.
oh good
How does he handle Eddie currents? 😁
Can’t see the M.E.T bolt installed or a main earth ??
I don’t see the need for three or four different torque screwdrivers for one DB total cack , why in. God’s name can’t they just have one or two torque settings and one torque screwdriver that covers those settings. My torque screwdriver covers 1Nm to 5.5 Nm so i’am pretty sure I would be covered for that DB . Absolute Madness this is nothing more than the Germans make a bank load of money of the back of the Uk . The world has gone positively gaga I’am telling you. Also I still hear that word required torque , it’s not required it is how ever the manufacturers recommendation nothing more. But tobe fair that is a nicely dressed DB , I have always used cable tie’s when dressing that type of Board but I never took the cables up then fold back down , I like that look a lot neater . Job well done 👍.when it comes to torque settings just dropped the word required. Fantastic video as always Gas 👍👍👍👍❤️
Mechanic interlock must been closed booth when you join tow devices together because they are not join correctly
Use releasable cable ties, cost a penny more but easy when adding the inevitable “extras”
I have been told cable ties are not allowed inside a board as per the NICEIC inspection? One of our guys had an NICEIC inspector actually make him cut the cable ties on site
Nothing new really, nice that there's no tails on the rcbo's. Not sure why you need all those torque drivers when the setting cross each other, dread to think how much they cost, I did think they would beep when the level was reached and not click like a standard one with them being digital. Probably controversial bunching them together no matter how tight they are, but it's something I do, and I don't lose any sleep over it.
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Where is the stand alone video link for the spd? Mentioned at 3.30??
Coming soon
@@efixx Are we there yet? :)
@@efixx almost ready? 😂
why not just use a combined mcb/breaker instead of seperated ones?
BBG IN A STRANGE ORDER TO ME
Bgb?
@@x0MARLOW0x perhaps he means brown grey black
@@michaeldavies1755 the three pole with rcd is using l3 - l1 - l2 not l123 6.00 timestamp
@@x0MARLOW0x got ya. Yeah it's got three phases and the conductors are in the right colour phase but how would.you record that on your test results? A three phase device for example would occupy 6L2, 6L3, 7L1, not sure I like that
Strange that there are no core IDs
Discussion - The distribution boards, switches and isolation and the like do not appear to be installed at a height which is maintainable and as such will require steps to perform simple maintenance and switching tasks. The average reach of a person standing on the floor is 2.1m. MOD design and Maintenance Guide 08 which is often used as a reference suggests 2.0 as a maximum height. Unless mitigated by a Designers Risk assessment, all maintenance and switching operations should be undertaken from a maintainable and accessible position, such as floor standing.
The board is very long as it’s got a entry box at the bottom with SPD and main switch plus and extension box on top. Under the board is the meter and service head. This is the only realistic option in this installation.
@@efixx it's very difficult to comment on whether this is the only reasonable installation in this case. I do know from the angles presented that the switching parts of this of these DBS is way too high for operation from a floor standing position. I do know from a designer point of view this is something that I see a lot off. I do know from a designer's point of view that often it is not the only reasonable alternative it is usually the most cost effective alternative for the contractor.
But why?! A single phase RCBO takes one slot, but we need 7 slots for a 3 phase? Why I ask you?! Why not have a 3 module, 3 phase RCBO?! It makes upgrading an older fully populated board impossible without.
And the spd video......