05/04/2020
There’s probably still a few switchboards like this one left in Melbourne.
I was asked to fix a light switch by the client, but when I went to isolate the power I found the following problems in their meter panel:
1, The circuits weren’t labelled
2, There were wrong sized fuse wires in the fuse cartridges, which is a fire risk.
3, No RCD protection on any circuits, which means no protection from electric shock
4, No current limit switch, so if many appliances were used at once, they risk overloading the incoming mains
5, Potential loose connections, which can happen over time in the connections of the fuse bases
Plus the list goes on..
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