Fitting a new 3-phase fuse board | Thomas Nagy

[@drewtiplady8076]

imagine if you filmed every day you're working, could honestly watch your videos for hours man. keep up the good work

[@parkrantz9515]

Love your comments!! Actually, in Sweden we almost always use three phase fuse boards in every application. Even in small apartments.

[@Burnie1601]

2:15 🤣🤣 definitely a new catchphrase for any time you're working on a board 🤣🤣

[@Srype5]

Here in Germany we've Got fuseboards from Hager or other companies with rubber "push-through" things. The big plus of the is the watertight sealing and no need of drilling holes for the inlets.

[@w5nker]

Luke Skywalker 2 things, you can’t gland steel wire armoured cables off onto rubber and provide a suitable earth to the armouring secondly it wouldn’t comply with 18th edition regs

[@Srype5]

@@w5nker We don't use Armoured cable commonly here.

[@swaterman08]

Nice to see them using more of a US load Center. Would like to see more of that style.

[@LAsparkTVWireTestLimited]

I just don't tell you how brilliant you are enough, your videos and your work and your amazing presentation skills. Being amongst all the other youtube sparks at the moment first taking the piss out of your returns whinge (DSS electrical) now even Nick Bundy's done a piss take of your Sunday video! That's got to be the greatest form of praise for someone on here, I have taken your lead too and prepared a sunday video only it's not a piss take of yours. Your production values are incredible and I don't comment enough and say thank you for all your dedication to us your viewers! You set the standard by which all others are judged.

[@thomasnagy]

Thank you for the feedback! That's really great to hear. I don't worry too much about the other sparkie's banter ... I guess that's just how things are on the Internet. It's great to hear you enjoy and appreciate the channel so much. Cheers pal!

[@loganlewis5598]

im training to become an electrician i have watch some of ur old vids on lighting and they have help me out alot glad i found ur channel

[@millsygolf1016]

You can change the top and bottom by removing the screws meaning the knockouts can be on the top 👍

[@finbenton]

In my country these kinda boxes come with big rubber "pads" you just push all the cables through real quick, I suppose thats not allowed in UK.

[@w5nker]

benii in this instance a lot of the circuits were fed in steel wire armoured which needs to be glanded off correctly to earth the steel of the armouring

[@ohnoitisnt]

@@finbenton Nothings allowed in the UK. Im surprised we even get electricity here, it can be dangerous after all.

[@scottwilliams1094]

Great video nice to see you taking pride in your work👍

[@robertchesney1592]

Hi Thomas, I have the ARMEG SWITCHBLADE 1000v insulated screwdriver set which does from 1Nm up to 6Nm's. Absolutely Excellent kit. £120 off Amazon. I love your channel, keep up the class work guy's 👌👌

[@UberAlphaSirus]

3p feed to light switches are always fun, so many colours, so many options. Otherwise 3p is always nice stuff to work on.

[@H4zuZazu]

What a cute little Fuse Board, i have to change in two months a Fuse-Cabinet (it is the Supply for a Big Kitchen) from 1986 with ~150 Screw type Fuses, from 1st Floor in to the Basement, gets replaced with Hager and it gets RCDs. You would't beleave how much old Electrics is still in Use in Germany.

[@rowles13]

Make a video

[@HobbyPicker]

Found this an interesting change from the usual domestic installation.

[@ohnoitisnt]

Yeah. Commercial stuff is brilliant

[@crashk6]

@thomas nagy Wera makes three versions of that torqe driver. One of which ranges from 1.7nm ~ 3.5nm.

[@michaelm2682]

Keep the videos coming Tom

[@PHealey1981]

Wera have a couple of Yorque drivers I believe Thomas. Typically, the one you don’t have is the one you need.

[@joebristowtechnologicalbre2073]

Sheathing brown onto black and grey is not necessary on a 3 phase circuit, and can actually confuse the phases. Nice boards those. The new version of the quality merlin gerin.

[@c8bbr]

Joe Bristow I was about to put the same very confusing, should be left brown black grey

[@Warner1981]

c8bbr scrolled down to see if someone had commented on this 😂

[@jonathanrichards3721]

Great as always Tom 👍🏻

[@nathanmemmory4981]

nice work tom

[@toolstotry9389]

I use the Schneider boards all the time the knock out can be put on the top too you just got to undo the 2 screws on top and bottom and swap them

[@tareqislam9379]

Excellent video tom keep up the good work

[@richardwash6678]

Enjoyed the video Tom.👍

[@nickbuckle646]

I would recommend when doing three phase panels 8way or over installing a trunking header of either 100mm by 100mm or 150mm by 150mm, sandwich some paxolin between with a nice slot and away you go, you can leave slack in the header very handy when you have lots of SWAs coming in.

[@millomweb]

You'll be wanting circular trunking next - so the surplus cable can just be wrapped a revolution or two round the circular section ;)

[@brolohutch8164]

Ill have a hissy fit if he uses clip on numbers, from a panel builder, use the roll on ones as the clips always come off on the cable you are interested in.

[@tonysoprano9370]

My old boss would want that done in half a day.

[@nathanlucas6465]

13:11 "4 inches is ample" 🤔

[@UberAlphaSirus]

Might only be 4 inches, but it smells like a foot.

[@catsbyondrepair]

4 inches and she Will leave you.

[@NathanSeeley]

as an electrician in the US the cable that you use is totally alien to me. we would have had all EMT running to the ceiling for that.

[@charliesilveston6233]

Nice to see a change from the domestic

[@jfoxy23]

Done more isobar DB’s than I can count but not used the Isobar P setup you have there with the clip in neutral bus bar replacing the tails on the rcbos.

[@AttilaSVK]

and we still don't know how did you fix the radio :D

[@ashleypalmer8207]

AttilaSVK haha thought the same thing

[@Mark1024MAK]

“After the eternity, I explain how we bodged the radio” - * everyone waits for an eternity to pass *

[@GantzLT1]

That's the first thing I thought after video finished

[@Stoney_Eagle]

Looks neat👌

[@JBE]

I know that you know I do it and you know that I know you do it. Nice electrical video 👌 Dave is to be heard but not seen 😊👍.

[@villeb9409]

Wiha makes a torque screwdriver that goes up to 5nm.

[@kierenhudson6331]

Available as a set at screwfix for £125. Best electricians purchase I ever made.

[@kanshelmyles-lopez6359]

I'm really excited..I went to a electrical trade and received my electrical maintenance certificate..a d now I'm working on traing to get into electrical apprentice program...I started of looking at you tube watching Nikola Tesla ..then one day I saw you working on wiring up apartment ..and explaining what you was doing..and that when I made my final decision to go to school to learn electrical work...and ice been watching you for around almost year and half...thank u

[@thomasnagy]

Good for you mate! You'll do well!

[@MultiMetalGaming]

Fuck yes, another video! Keep 'em coming boss!

[@donnierobertson3088]

Nice job

[@fimbles1015]

Love the videos tom, As a non electrician it would be awesome if you could go in to more detail about wiring and layout of the circuits. Cheers for all the videos.

[@claas6504]

Find it funny when some experienced sparks ask you to close your eyes and the meter man's tags have magically disappeared...

[@acespark1]

there is a tool for switching the isobar isolators and it is the lemon on the top of the isobar

[@UberAlphaSirus]

That unit is comming on nice, must be making a profit. Industrial look with ikea shelving, noice lol

[@jasonjuggler3457]

yeah instant fuck up

[@raynulife3569]

Banjos have you not seen the SWA brass nuts with locking screw & cable screw for crimp on? saves time and they don't go rusty! I have not used any banjos since they came onto the market.

[@borisivanovic622]

honda s2000 one of the best lookin cars of the 90s

[@K-carbon]

Best normally aspirated engine too.still is

[@georged9801]

I have a whia torque screwdriver which is 3Nm but I also have a draper one which has a torque setting up to 5Nm

[@mikeenglish1492]

Another interesting vid 👍

[@acelectricalsecurity]

It is a nice feature of that board with the tabs to isolator the bus bar, it's the old Merlin design, the main draw back with that board is the cost of the rcbos, and the Schneider range is so bloody confusing.

[@dosgos]

Nice repeat customer work! Very clean install Thomas.

[@OA1998.]

Anyone else laugh when he said "its not a 1400 hundred"

[@ARElectrics]

Am I right in thinking I saw brown sleathing on the black and grey of the three phase circuit? Iv never indicated my L2 and L3 as brown phases unless they're single phase. I have also been to several three phase installations and have come across single phase circuits coloured coded to the phase in which they were fed from. They're nice boards to fit, we fit those and hager. Nice job as always. Commercial work much better than house bashing.

[@UberAlphaSirus]

That is bollocks when that happens. on a 3 phase system you expect 3 phase coding, not a light switch bank coloured all the same phase.

[@texasproud3332]

Here in the states as in Texas we generally would pull the meter a change the panel and now they have these digital meters that let the power company know we have pulled it and they then come out and give us grief about we just tell them to fu** off

[@AndyK.1]

TEXAS They are trying to install smart meters here. Completion now 2024 iirc

[@JimWhitaker]

@@AndyK.1 2034 possibly!

[@kieranmullarkey9205]

what make of RCBO'S did you use. where did they get the neutral feed?.

[@AKAMustang]

Honda S2000, very fun!

[@Zeroboyz87]

Hey bro it’s Dwayne from weatherman air conditioning it was me that gave you the the beep beep in Highgate even though we drove passed each other it was gud to see u bro keep up the gud work 💯👍🏾❄️❄️❄️

[@mauricionardin1863]

Hi Thomaz, I am from Brazil, I am an electrician like you I happen to every problem of low quality material so I buy a screwdriver as a kinpex or wiha it is impossible to find, in LONDON it has everything from GERMANY, if I had a job in LONDON electricity would be a big hug tomorrow.

[@the3rdbestnikkashopinyoura540]

Woot, Woot!!!!! First post!

[@fairmont1998]

"It's not at 1400 but..." I laughed out loud

[@dennisphoenix1]

The issue with pulling main fuses is PPE , if it goes wrong and you get a short you get a free shower , in copper particles when it explodes in your face .

[@bobthelad7135]

Gman Tom. Come to Ireland for a tour

[@rmelectricalinstallations7419]

Hi Thomas,.... thank you for videos, just a quick question, Why did you sleeve (or taped) brown on black and grey wires of a three-phase cable? .... as I understand, the Regs specify that the Black wire is L2 and Grey wire is L3, in the three-phase setting. I appreciate your response. Best regards. Ramin

[@richardday2893]

I pack my tools up when It takes more than three attempts to pick a screw up from the floor..

[@millomweb]

Sounds like the start of a good _thread_ on a daft theme. If so, I'll continue... Having locked the door, the key doesn't come out of the lock when you try - to the point the key (or bunch of) slips out of your fingers - at which point the key or bunch drops freely to the ground as if there was nothing holding it in in the first place !

[@imark7777777]

Yes I'm Midway through a change over at home somehow I managed to poll 4 in and have the same 4 circuits still out I'm still scratching my head on this one. Once I get done with that I just have the air conditioner and 4 240 electric heat circuits. I'm taking my time but I still gave myself a deadline by the end of the week. Well I don't pull main fuses because well we don't have them...

[@Biela2008]

Aren't you at GoBob's aga....oh... It's in the description! :D

[@swisstony662]

Same as Merlin boards great to work on

[@Kevsta-01]

Think new 100mm galv trunking slotted to the DB then gland all swa into that, carry on around the room and put conduit drops in probs would of been better for future expansion 👍

[@jdrelectricaltelford8896]

Regarding the torque screwdriver That’s why I opted for the wiha one as goes up to 5nm.....there good but love Wera tools

[@Ragnar8504]

Yup... bought a Wera set when my cheapo ones (the whole set I had before that cost about as much as a single Wera screwdriver) wore out and got used to them. Then I bought a Wiha Soft Finish set just in case but never really warmed up to them. Really like the Wera ones! No real idea why I prefer them, maybe just because they were there first!

[@darenvitaelectrical5310]

JDR Electrical Services the armeg torque goes to 6 nm

[@vitomichael1478]

Tom... what's the catch with using brown tape on all 3 phase circuit ? Because we all working after colour code isn't it? All the best and can you please do more inspection and testing videos or/and maybee a comparison between meters (price-quality -easy to use).

[@Dont-come-at-me-24]

Should buy die cutters for the boxes much quicker , also S8 is way faster then a S2000

[@dj_paultuk7052]

I doubt it, that S2000 was Turbocharged and is somewhere around 550bhp. Did you not notice the pipes sticking out of the bonnet ?.

[@seanwreekie]

i find it funny how i quit my career as an Electrician to work in the Oil Industry but watch Videos of an Electrician working while i'm at work on an Oil Rig wishing i was working for myself as an Electrician again...

[@nrg-5003]

With regards of pulling the main fuses, i think their main concern is people will potentially steal leccy, if the main fuse doesn't have a seal then one could easily disconnect the meter and add new tails from the cut out to the consumer unit(completely bypassing the meter) although with smart meters these days i don't see how one could get away with it.

[@TezzaRES]

Wera do 2 versions of that torque screwdriver I believe

[@millomweb]

The tray around the walls, since it appears to be metal, is it earthed ?

[@ohnoitisnt]

AvE warned you about that meter. Runnnn

[@thomasnagy]

true. too true.....

[@UberAlphaSirus]

win shit on instagram.

[@pyrounlimited7035]

Thomas if you want a good Amp clampmeter/multimeter Buy the Fluke 325 i have one myself a plus point it measures dc amps.

[@finbenton]

Used one daily for 5 years its great but only has 2 AAA batteries, wish it was atleast AA.

[@nsadler43]

Or is there surge protection elsewhere? Only asking to satisfy my own curiosity as a spark myself. Enjoy the vids though Tom keep up the good work 👍🏻

[@andrewscott6078]

Hi why are you marking 3 phase colours brown ?? They are 3 phase colours as they are ???

[@rudi8245]

The Schneider boards are modular, so if you want the knockouts on top, just swap the 2 panels.

[@philcollins6498]

Armeg torque kit 1-6 Nm 👌👌

[@jamesbrooks6130]

With those three phase boards the top and bottom panels are interchangeable. You could if changed them over and only had to drill a couple of holes in the bottom one. Would make install a little quicker

[@samclubb7152]

Hi Thomas. How come you ident all three phases as brown?

[@pullmeifinger]

I just asked the wife. 4 inches isn't enough 😂

[@thomasnagy]

can you ask her what is enough? im just curious

[@LluisTheWoodWorker]

do you do works in cambridge?

[@yrification]

Schneider isobar 👍🏻

[@omega1maestro]

Why would you mark L2 and L3 brown, when they are black and grey?

[@thomasnagy]

Sorry; I was referring to the single phase armoured with grey and black as neutral and earth

[@scottcroley2306]

Shouldn‘t identify L2 and L3 as L1 (brown) if they are 3phase supply. Good videos by the way! 👍🏻

[@lawrencelamee3070]

I have 3phase wind generator i would like to wire up to single ph circuit, can you help

[@webb-1]

What happened to the radio mod you was going to show

[@thomasnagy]

I forgot to show it. Next week 🤪

[@AndyK.1]

Webb 1 Oh is he on the radio? You would have thought he would have mentioned it 😂

[@dumle29]

In case you want to give it a go, the 7444 VDE from WERA goes to 3.5 Nm

[@millomweb]

All my screwdrivers go to as much effort I can put on them.

[@millomweb]

"It's surprising how much effort it is to tighten a screw" - I think you've just answered the question as to why screws come undone over time - people just don't take tightening them seriously enough ! IMO, if the copper doesn't squeal with agony, it's not tight enough.

[@NathanSeeley]

tighten till you crack the lug then loosen in a 1/4 turn and blame it on the new guy

[@LikeAHawk13]

Why not run 3 inch (75mm) trunking around the building, 1200 up and fix all your sockets underneath? All those SWAs for a few sockets...

[@iqyyazdani7951]

There’s a yellow tool that sits at the top the bus bar which slides them

[@jurassicsparks5220]

Mr Thomas Nagy, Can you for the life of me. Please go through safe isolation procedures. Most of your KZbin audience are either inexperienced or not even in the game. If your working on a 3 phase DB you could of shown how you safely isolated the board and the upmost importance of doing so. Show how you test for Zero Energy and the steps involved.

[@rik061119]

The big irazola drivers are great for boards

[@Kev7ing]

I came close to whacking my eye once with the male end of an extension cord. I now usually wear safety glasses whilst working.

[@advancedstairlift9014]

Should change the play button on your shirts to white rather than black , enjoy your vids keep it up . Thank me later it'll look better

[@ADAM1989KING]

radio is working?

[@GT3Alexx]

Wiha VDE Slim Torque Screwdriver has 5 nm.

[@tready2008]

So what happen to the radio fix? Don't leave us hanging!

[@thomasnagy]

I forgot to mention it, it'll be in another video.

[@DSki-mr9mh]

I find it humorous that you call that board a behemoth, that is a typical small office panel board on our side of the pond. Do you guys ever install 1600 amp services?

[@pbarnfield]

Smart meter installed, he tells Western Power that the tags weren't on the main fuses. So they come out, another 2 hours of no elec to switch the 3 phase to a new panel.... was bloody fine before!!

[@muzikman2008]

Thought "lost voice guy" was making an appearance at the start 😂

[@SteveNail]

So what did you do to get the radio better?

[@thomasnagy]

bought a DAB adapter. lol

[@simonharding1572]

he needs to be at fix radio think

[@jamesuk9]

before 6pm I think