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.
This does not apply to all European countries. Here in the Netherlands, we use brown for 'hot', Blue for 'neutral', and yellow/Green is earth. Max group fuses = 16 Amp. For the average house, you have a 1x35A or 3x25A grid connection.
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)
The meter doesn't consume power? How is it powered, batteries? I thought VA was the apparent power (on paper) and watts was the actual power after your losses.
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.
@@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..
@@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
@@lapub. Yes, I confirm. Most of time in france it is mono 220V and until 90A (depends of your subscription). But if you choose to have more power, you can have for example 3x220V (e.g. 3x63A). About safety, it is. really efficient in a new built (rcbo, neutral et ground different, surge protector in some area blabla). Nevertheless that is sometime too much ... in Europe we like to have lot of rules...
It's volt-amperes or Va. It's written like that because volts x amperes = watts. VA is used when you are expressing what something is designed for (apparent power) and watts is used when you're expressing what something consumes (actual power). If the power factor was 1 and there were no losses from heat, etc., (not gonna happen), then we would always use Va. By definition volt-amperes is watts at unity power factor.
Thanks for that video. I am refurbishing a stone cottage in rural France and found it informative,
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.
That was a very informative video. I’m refurbing a house in France and struggling a bit to understand the consumer unit.
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.
There is even some with "plugabble" breakers ruclips.net/video/pBkdI4tq4MQ/видео.html
Thanks for info bro, very good explain
This does not apply to all European countries. Here in the Netherlands, we use brown for 'hot', Blue for 'neutral', and yellow/Green is earth. Max group fuses = 16 Amp. For the average house, you have a 1x35A or 3x25A grid connection.
Thank you so very much. I’m going to re-wire an old French house.
What current limit do they have on individual circuits in France, lights and sockets?
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)
I’m getting nervous watching you bring your hands so close to the exposed terminal blocks on a live system
The meter doesn't consume power? How is it powered, batteries? I thought VA was the apparent power (on paper) and watts was the actual power after your losses.
All consume power...for internal electronics...regardless of load. Sure, current measure transformers build up heat when used at or near nominal load.
Anyone know of the restrictions for an install of this unit in the us?
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.
@@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..
@@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
@@lapub. Yes, I confirm. Most of time in france it is mono 220V and until 90A (depends of your subscription). But if you choose to have more power, you can have for example 3x220V (e.g. 3x63A).
About safety, it is. really efficient in a new built (rcbo, neutral et ground different, surge protector in some area blabla). Nevertheless that is sometime too much ... in Europe we like to have lot of rules...
Somehow it looks a lot better than the american breaker box..And the Dutch breaker box looks a lot like this.
volts and amps are two diffrent units
It's volt-amperes or Va. It's written like that because volts x amperes = watts. VA is used when you are expressing what something is designed for (apparent power) and watts is used when you're expressing what something consumes (actual power). If the power factor was 1 and there were no losses from heat, etc., (not gonna happen), then we would always use Va. By definition volt-amperes is watts at unity power factor.
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