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Not all blacks and blues are the same!
Why's my RCD tripping?
No wonder a lot of you have thousands of post. All you do is bang on about same stupid stuff. Well off topic.
there were some 2" plastic stuffing glands in eddys the other day, bring your swa in through that. (we regually use 20,25 and 32mm stuffers)(Somebody beat me to it). And what about cable entry for TT supply? Wylex provide 32mm black (yuck) plastic gland.
The dash to fit smart meters has resulted in many installations being disturbed by unqualified “operatives”.
Two interesting points that are worth considering:
When did they start fitting these meters?
When did the dramatic rise in “fuse board” fires start?
To the best of my knowledge these meter fitters aren’t allowed to open a CU to check the tails they have disturbed. As for checking the terminations in the head, that I don’t know.
If the real source of the fire could be attributed to one of the three major components in an install, IE, the head, the meter or the CU then some logical conclusions could be reached.
Statistic recording the dates and location of meter installations and the dates and locations of “electrical fires” could prove interesting.
Looking at it, going back to metal service heads and meters would be the next logical step for the LFB to twist the IET’s limp wrist. But we all know that won’t happen because the DNO’s and energy companies will turn around and tell the IET they have no authority in the distribution industry and get stuffed.
Like I have said a thousand bloody times, there is no 'direct' evidence, however the numbers are clear to see for anyone who isn't burying their head in the sand!
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/fire-statistics-great-britain-2013-to-2014
Do the research yourself. All the relevant numbers are there, no figure manipulation either.
Notice how fires caused by electrical distribution in dwellings is on a very very slow decline until 2005, the year that Part P was introduced, then notice a sharp rise.
I suppose this is just coincidence right?! I suppose the manufacturers just decided to start making their gear rubbish in 2005 and that's the cause right?!
Come on man, take your bleedin' blinkers off will you!
there were some 2" plastic stuffing glands in eddys the other day, bring your swa in through that. (we regually use 20,25 and 32mm stuffers
We might be at cross purposes, I was referring to entering a metal clad CU with double insulated meter tails, and the potential therein with TT supply. Hager makes no reference to any sort of manufactured remedy, nor does MK on their 3rd amendment CU's.
Even using the Wylex plastic gland, the potential of the tails (however small) shorting with metal of the CU before an RCD remains.
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