House wiring help

[Redhotchilie]

before you start laughing at me, let me tell you i'm living with my parents in the house they built in the 80s.. so it's got an old school fuse box. yesterday the fuse for my room blew up, and i had a hell of a trouble just to locate the blown fuse, and had equal trouble trying to fix it..
so today i went to a hardware store and bought a set of MCBs. (ten of them + a box)

now somebody pls tell me how to replace the old fuses with the damn MCBs

specifically, how do i make a common Live rail for each of these MCBs?

don't tell me employee an electrician. I don't want stupid electricians. i want to do it myself

rep (පගාව) will be given for anybody coming up with useful advise.

Umbata kiyala denna one hondawain.thawa kenekge job ekak pahath karala katha karanna epa.issellama katha karanna purudu weyan.math oya wade dannawa.eka ahaganna one widiyata wadagath widiyata ahapan

 

[samanz]

this is exactly what i've been looking for. "Common bus bar segment" is this some part that i have to buy??

Yes If you buy the whole Mcb box it comes with it even you can buy it separately it comes as bars you can cut off desired length.. and if you willing to expand it in future its better to get 2/3 more mcbs with the box,

Say you have 8 old school fuses now so install a 10 mcb box with extra 2 mcbs without connecting. then you can use them if you need in future, its my way of doing.

 

[පැටියා]

Yes If you buy the whole Mcb box it comes with it even you can buy it separately it comes as bars you can cut off desired length.. and if you willing to expand it in future its better to get 2/3 more mcbs with the box,

Say you have 8 old school fuses now so install a 10 mcb box with extra 2 mcbs without connecting. then you can use them if you need in future, its my way of doing.

අපෙ ගෙදර තියෙන්නෙ යකඩ box එකක්. ඒක අයින් කරලා plastic box එක දාන්න බැරි වෙයිද?

 

[samanz]

අපෙ ගෙදර තියෙන්නෙ යකඩ box එකක්. ඒක අයින් කරලා plastic box එක දාන්න බැරි වෙයිද?

If its a box like above its more than enough it comes with all protection so dont need to replace.

or if yours looks like following you can replace it with a modern plastic box with MCB panel.

 

[rajitha_ks]

Umbata kiyala denna one hondawain.thawa kenekge job ekak pahath karala katha karanna epa.issellama katha karanna purudu weyan.math oya wade dannawa.eka ahaganna one widiyata wadagath widiyata ahapan

අඩෝ සොරි මචන්..
මම විහිලුවට එහෙම දැම්මෙ මට තනියෙම කරගන්න ඕනි කියල බොරු පොර පාට් එකක් දාන්න.

මම ඒ කෑල්ල අයින් කරන්නම්.

සමාවෙයන් මචන්

 

[rajitha_ks]

Yes If you buy the whole Mcb box it comes with it even you can buy it separately it comes as bars you can cut off desired length.. and if you willing to expand it in future its better to get 2/3 more mcbs with the box,

Say you have 8 old school fuses now so install a 10 mcb box with extra 2 mcbs without connecting. then you can use them if you need in future, its my way of doing.

how do you ask for it in the store? is there a sinhala name for it?
yeah we have 8 fuses. i bought 10 MCBs.
i was thinking of running a wire connecting one side of all MCBs and connecting it to live wire. but then i thought maybe there's a more elegant professional way of doing it.

i'll do according to your advise bro.

 

[samanz]

how do you ask for it in the store? is there a sinhala name for it?

බස් බාර්!

 

[පැටියා]

If its a box like above its more than enough it comes with all protection so dont need to replace.

or if yours looks like following you can replace it with a modern plastic box with MCB panel.

Is it possible to replace the enclosure without removing MCBs and other things? I want to get rid of this ugly looking enclosure

 

[samanz]

how do you ask for it in the store? is there a sinhala name for it?
yeah we have 8 fuses. i bought 10 MCBs.
i was thinking of running a wire connecting one side of all MCBs and connecting it to live wire. but then i thought maybe there's a more elegant professional way of doing it.

i'll do according to your advise bro.

Sure
*use the bus bars and do it as the diagram ask from the shop guy and he will give you all the items needed for mcb box. buy the colored wires as easy recognition red and blue. and for the earth always use the green.

*if you tend to forget, just label every wire with some stickers first when you disconnect it

*even if you dont have good ground, buy an good earthing copper rod and wire the ground with heavy wire.

 

[samanz]

Is it possible to replace the enclosure without removing MCBs and other things? I want to get rid of this ugly looking enclosure

Its possible you can replace front easily you have to buy matching modern enclosure, but if its dug into the wall may be you have to break the wall lil bit to fit the new one.

always its better for ask some technician around. They know some hacks too

 

[rajitha_ks]

Sure
*use the bus bars and do it as the diagram ask from the shop guy and he will give you all the items needed for mcb box. buy the colored wires as easy recognition red and blue. and for the earth always use the green.

*if you tend to forget, just label every wire with some stickers first when you disconnect it

*even if you dont have good ground, buy an good earthing copper rod and wire the ground with heavy wire.

will do bro. thanks for all the insight.

 

[පැටියා]

Its possible you can replace front easily you have to buy matching modern enclosure, but if its dug into the wall may be you have to break the wall lil bit to fit the new one.

always its better for ask some technician around. They know some hacks too

Ok. Thanks

 

[samanz]

Ok. Thanks

No worries

 

[samanz]

will do bro. thanks for all the insight.

No worries bro ask if any

 

[mldarshana]

ඕක කරන එක කේස් මොකද සාමාන්‍යෙයන් ගෙවල් වල වයරිං එක ගහලා තමා කරන්ට් ගන්නෙ. ඒ කියන්නෙ කනුවෙන් එන ලයින් එක අන්තිමට සෙට් කරන්නෙ. දැං ඒක ගලවන්න ක්‍රමයක් නැති නිසා දන්න කෙනෙක්ට කියලම කරව ගන්න නැත්තං වවුලා වගේ එල්ලිලා ඉඳිං ඊට පස්සෙ නැසොනලිස් මූවමන්ට් එක අනතුරේ

දන්න කෙනෙක්ට කියල කරගනින් බන් ... සල්ලි නැත්තන් NGO එකක් සෙට් කරගනින් ... හැබැයි එතකොට ඉන්ට නැසොනලිස් වෙනව

 

[DarkFace]

අම්මට හුඩු කිව්වලු, හෙට අනිද්ද සැත්ක්ම් එහෙමත් ගෙදර කරයි වගේ

 

[mldarshana]

අම්මට හුඩු කිව්වලු, හෙට අනිද්ද සැත්ක්ම් එහෙමත් ගෙදර කරයි වගේ

 

[samanz]

අම්මට හුඩු කිව්වලු, හෙට අනිද්ද සැත්ක්ම් එහෙමත් ගෙදර කරයි වගේ

mekata nam ridei

 

[NB Diamonds]

danna kenek kiyanna (rajithatath danaganna ekka)

# 6A or 9A breakers use karala ganna puluwan = 5A plug 2k neda. ?
# 10A breaker ekakata = 5A 3k denna puluwanda ? ( normal 13A plug 2k kiyala thama danne)
# breakers quantity eka adu karagena wedi plug pramanayak denna widiyak thiyenawada... ?
# Earth wire hama plug ekaka idalama separate main board ekata genna oneeda ? (mamanam magadi joint danawa main board ekata enne eka wire ekai plug keeya unath)
# condute batayak ethulen yawana standard wire ganak thiyenawada ?

metikata pahadili pilithurak denawada.... pls.....

 

[පැටියා]

ජංජාලෙ පිරික්සද්දි හම්බවුනේ. There are push plug in MCBs

වයරිං වලට අත තියන්න ඕනෙ නෑ Fuse ටික ගලවලා මේවා ගහන්න තියෙන්නෙ