NIGLON INTRODUCES NEW THREE PHASE DISTRIBUTION BOARDS – PROTEGO125

Why Develop a New 125A range?

As with any new range development Niglon ensures it looks at what the market (ultimately the electrician) might want out of the product they buy. Outside of price this comes down to the fit and feel of the item – people tend to want something which is robust and well made, and which is easy and quick to install. It sounds simple enough, but distilling this down into what this meant for our new 125A boards meant speaking to customers and looking at best practice.

This led to some fairly quick wins, including provision of:

• A reversible door (allowing flexibility when on site)
• Half Din Rail (so the board can be populated quickly)
• Fully shrouded and well-marked up terminals
• Comprehensive shrouding of the Busbar & main switch
• Ensuring sufficient space in the board to allow correct dressing of cables.
• Rolled edges to the gland plate entry points to ensure incoming cables were less likely to become snagged or damaged.

One principal area which our former range lacked was the ability to fit a surge protection device (SPD) into the board alongside the main switch – formerly this had to be fitted in a separate enclosure alongside the board itself, meaning more cost/work and a less-than-ideal aesthetic end result. The omission has now been remedied in the Protego 125 board, and a surge kit will be offered (which will include the spd, mcb, and connections as required) which can be quickly installed in the distribution board, when required. Fitment is via a busbar arrangement (similar again to our domestic offering) and this means less wiring in by the installer and ultimately quicker job completion.

Similarly, the ability for the chassis to be demounted from the board enclosure was deemed a neat addition, allowing the user to place and install the board to the wall with greater ease (and less strain on the arms!). It is points like this which we feel users of the product will really appreciate.

The 125A board styling mirrors that of the single phase Protego units Niglon already offers, and this was felt important for those on site who take pride in their work and wanted all the distribution equipment to be read as part of the same family. As such the TPN boards have a robust 1.2mm construction with curved edges which lend extra reinforcement to the structure, ensuring no warping of the board when it is fitted to the wall (wall mounting kits are supplied with all the boards as standard).

Lastly the range of devices has been expanded so that Niglon in Protego 125 shall now offer 1P & 3P MCBs and RCBOs, in B, C, and D curve – so that every application is catered for. This was important feedback from both wholesalers and installers (you might not fit many D curve 3P RCBOs, but when a job calls for it, you need to have it in the range as a service line).

The range of boards has been kept tight in terms of number of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs), and Niglon will offer the distribution boards prefitted with a main switch only in 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 & 24 ways. Keeping the number of different products on the shelf to a minimum is advantageous to our wholesale customers in particular.

We look forward to hearing from customers and installers alike – as Niglon remains keen to continue developing and improving our products with features and benefits which are advantageous to the electrician.