Inside a French circuit breaker box (11 - Electricity Distribution)

Complete description of a single phase European circuit breaker box/consumer unit, showing electricity entering the residence through the meter, main switch, residual current breakers, and individual switches. Single pole and 2-pole switches are shown along with features of the electrical meter.
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Aaron Danner is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore.
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Video edited by Cheryl Lim.
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[@GentlemanH]

Thanks for that video. I am refurbishing a stone cottage in rural France and found it informative,

[@johnburns4017]

At 2:12 the main switch does cut out at 500mA differential as it is an RCD, but is also an over-current device as well, so an RCBO.

[@freshflame0]

Thanks for info bro, very good explain

[@stevenryan6008]

That was a very informative video. I’m refurbing a house in France and struggling a bit to understand the consumer unit.

[@lapub.]

it show VA because he also limit the power to your subscription level if it was Watts, he could trip showing a lower value due to cos phi.
But he count Watts for the invoice. The old electronic one show Watts VA and VAR, this "smart" one is more dumb, to get the other value you must connect a computer to him (he have a serial data out that continuously send all internal registers, it's in clear text and well documented)

[@xntumrfo9ivrnwf]

I’m getting nervous watching you bring your hands so close to the exposed terminal blocks on a live system

[@1973jdmc]

Thank you so very much. I’m going to re-wire an old French house.

[@jooproos6559]

Somehow it looks a lot better than the american breaker box..And the Dutch breaker box looks a lot like this.

[@user-fl2wn5zr5z]

volts and amps are two diffrent units

[@johnburns4017]

Some French panels connect the horizontal banks of switches via sold L (hot) & N, insulated busbars, that look like rods. So no small L terminal blocks top right or N top left. Much neater and safer.

[@lapub.]

There is even some with "plugabble" breakers ruclips.net/video/pBkdI4tq4MQ/видео.html

[@HumbleMunster]

Anyone know of the restrictions for an install of this unit in the us?

[@lapub.]

Must be too safe to use this kind of equipment, as you can see he put his bare hand inside when it's live and... nothing happen.
The same thing in US must lead to death. This panel to be compliant with US un-safety level definitely lack of huge bare copper links !
More seriously, as it's made to be use on a grid that provide 3 phase 230/400 V it could work perfectly but you can't use them as they're not approved by you local regulation.
I think just the plastic case is no good. And the 200A services is far beyond Amps we used to deal with. A typical domestic service is max 60A => 12KW (technically it's 60A*200V=12KVA 200 V as it's simple and it's bellow the minimum Voltage so you'll always have this power even if it's more 60*240 = 14,4) the biggest you can have "at home" is 60A 3 phase+Neutral so 36kW (43,2) (in this case you have a caste with an Olympic swimming pool) So even your main cables won't fit, as for 60 A they are "thin" (16mm² about AWG5=>16.8mm²), sure you can have more but so much power is only required by commercial/office site.

[@jooproos6559]

@@lapub. I am not shure if i am understanding you in the right way,but three phase connection is very common in the European continent.And that will be 3 X 230 volt..

[@lapub.]

@@jooproos6559 The street power distribution in France is always 3 phase+Neutral, but most house are wired in "mono" one phase and neutral and get "only" 230V. When you have 3 phase it's 230/400volt. In belgium 3 phase is more common but it can be 110/220

[@waseemallinone]

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