MUST BE SOME ELECTRICIANS HERE . I'm doing a lot of alterations to my workshops. upgrading. as it is now I have a ten way consumer unit for the house and on this I now have a 63 amp mcb to supply power to another consuimer unit in my workshop. now with all the extra machinery I have I need to go up to 80 amp mcb. the problem is that the 80 amp mcb I've been given is plus half as wide as the others......I was told once you jump up to 80 amp mcb's this is so. the problem is I cant fit it in place of the 63 amp without taking one of the others out so making it a 9 way consumer unit . the question is ... do 80 amp mcb's exsist that are the same width as the the smaller mcb's. have I been mis-sold or mis-informed about the 80 amp I already have. the rest of the mcb's are Hager model number 6000-3...the type that tighten onto a buzz bar in the consumer unit. All the best...mark
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19 years ago