Although Australia has one of the safest electrical systems in the world, accidents can still happen. A poorly maintained appliance, a person who innocently pushes something into a power socket or cuts through an electrical wire, a frayed cord, wet hands or carelessness with power tools are all situations that can lead to serious consequences.

Benefits of residual current devices (RCDs) are well documented and latest version of wiring rules (AS/NZS 3000:2018) makes it mandatory to have RCD protection for all final sub-circuits in residential applications. Amendment 2 of AS/NZS 3000:2018 makes it mandatory to have type A RCD (not type AC RCD) from May 2023 for additional safety. All RCDs under MAX9 range are future ready and already type A.

Features and benefits

• Covers all potential residential needs – 2 pole and 4 pole variants available
• Line and load can be top or bottom connected, ideal when cabling space is restricted or limited
• Lift-up terminals helps to reduce chances of ‘hot spot’ in terminations with all cable strands are locked in
• Compatible with MAX9 18 mm pin type busbar for connections to multiple MCBs
• Connection - Upstream/downstream by tunnel terminal & DIN locking clip
• Positive contact indication - Green strip on the toggle that indicates opening of all the poles and allows operations to be performed on the downstream circuit with complete peace of mind
• Clipsal A-SI-Type (super immune) RCDs - The SI range of RCDs helps to reduce nuisance tripping caused by Earth leakage currents below 30mA threshold
• Applications for A-SI-Type include High dependency installations, Computers, Fluorescent lighting with electronic ballasts.