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Consumer units around the world

We celebrate the diversity found in the worlds electrical cupboards.
By Gordon Routledge
​Tuesday 16th April 2019
In the UK we call them consumer units, in Canada, they are electrical panels, Germany it's stromkasten, and Croatians have a kutija s osiguračima. Whatever we call them, every country seems to develop a unique style for equipment with the same essential function.

I'm sure when on holiday most electricians can't help having a sneaky peak in cupboards to see if the local wiring is up to par and how standards compare to the home market. Whether you are amazed at the number of circuits or shocked at the quality of installation. To prepare you for your next foreign adventure, our eFIXX friends across the world have sent us a veritable smorgasbord of the finest electrical distribution equipment. 

Consumer unit gallery of the world

Feast on a fusebox - use the blue arrows to navigate through the gallery 

What have we learned so far?

Labels

A pattern of harmonisation is emerging in our collection. Across the globe, consumers face lousy labelling, from handwritten scrawl or no labels whatsoever to intricate engineering drawings on a sheet of A4 paper. Good luck in a powercut!



Find us a consumer unit and win a limited edition eFIXX tin!


Trawl through your holiday snaps or ask an  electrician friend who's retired to the sun to send you a picture of a consumer unit in their country.

Gary and Joe explain the rules

Countries included in our collection so far...

Abu Dhabi

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan                        sourced by Peter Evans

Canada                              sourced by Scott Bauer

China                                 sourced by David Roche

Croatia

Czechoslovakia            sourced by Ian Cooke

Dominican Republic   sourced by Greg Cosgrove

Finland

Germany

Hong Kong                       sourced by CY LEE

India                                   sourced by Teena Sethi

Iraq                                     sourced by Stuart Cato

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Macedonia

Morocco                            sourced by Andrew Pepper

Romania                        sourced by Connor Gray

Russia

Serbia

Singapore

South Korea

Sweden

Switzerland

Thailand                          sourced by Steve Vendyback 

Turkey                           sourced by Tom Chaplin

United Kingdom          sourced by Switchlec

USA

Limited edition personalised eFIXX tin

Send us your entry via

A few rules

  • Entries accepted from electricians only.
  • First entry to reach us from a country we don't have on the list above wins a tin.
  • Photographs must be an original image, not already published on social media.
  • We will only post tins to addresses in the United Kingdom
  • We will credit photo images to the person who entered and link to a social account or website if requested.
  • Hopes, dreams and Greggs pasty not included with tin.


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