What is the distribution board?
The distribution board is a panel or cover in which fuses, circuit breakers and units of protection against land leakage used to distribute electricity into numerous individual circuits or consumer points. The board usually has a single incoming energy source and includes a main circuit circuit breaker and a residual current or device to protect against Earth leakage. Older distribution plates may include a number of fuses that deliver individual circuits; Newer installations usually have mini circuit breakers. The distribution board can be used to distribute individual or three -phase delivery depending on the specifics of the installation. Although the equipment, layout and legislative requirements of the Distribution Council differ from country to country, the basic principles of "distribution" of a single offer to different individual points and at the same time ensure safety and control for each remain the same.
Distribution plates are a common place in most industrial installations and commercial or residential buildings. MostIna consists of a panel or cover supplied with a single incoming electrical cable. The power is then divided between several small circuit breakers or in the case of older boards fuses, which in turn bring energy to various consumer points or circuits. The main function of any distribution board is to allow individual circuits to draw energy from properly evaluated circuit breakers and for these circuits to be insulated without causing disruption of the rest of the delivery. Most importantly, the distribution board offers users and equipment from electric shocks or fire resulting from ground failures.
Most distribution boards have a single incoming power cable on the board more or single -phase power. The live feed from this cable is generally first connected to the main circuit breaker, fuse or residual current detector (RCD). These components are alnocking the whole board to be insulated for repairs in the case of the mainThe circuit breaker or fuse, while the RCD protects against impacts on the ground failure and the risk of fire. In the case of a single phase delivery, a live source is taken from the main circuit breaker or RCD and bridged via the upper part of the series of individual fuses or mini circuit breakers. Multiphase supplies usually have several circuit breakers for each phase and each group has overcome their incoming terminals. The neutral and earth cores of the power cord are then connected to separate bus strips.
cables from individual outlet, light circuits or machine points are then inserted into the distribution plate on the opposite side of the power cable. The live lines from each cable are connected to a suitably evaluated circuit breaker and neutral and the ground leads to the appropriate bus sticks. This creates a distribution environment in which each circuit is powered by a suitable circuit circuit breaker and can be isolated if Need is formed without disturbing the rest of the delivery.
However, RCD is the most important part of any distribution board.This is part that stands between the perimeter user and potentially fatal electric shocks and catastrophic fires. For this reason, these units should be properly evaluated, regularly tested and never bypass. The cause of the off circuit breaker or blown fuse should also always be examined before the reset to avoid possible damage to the equipment or equipment and electric shock.