Pulling the Main Fuse (Poll)

[Dan]

i always use the proper ppe when pulling a fuse.

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Who's the little red guy you're holding? Ha

 

[Silly Sausage]

How did this happen?

 

[mort2376]

I have pulled the fuse every time and only had one time when someone turned up and said what are you doing. Turns out they had wired the mains wrong and the main fuse turned off the house I was working on and next door. The neighbour rang them as they had no power.

I explained what I was doing and showed them my Napit id badge and they said no problems we will call at some point and correct it. That was 3 years ago and it's still like that.

 

[telectrix]

Who's the little red guy you're holding? Ha

apprentice.

 

[Dan]

apprentice.

Start them young like a puppy; can't teach old dogs new tricks.

 

[garaoke]

So, anonymous poll - who pulls the main fuse when required (ie CU change) and who get's the DNO/supplier/whoever in to sort it?

The hassle to get a job to fit an isolator and a seal is beyond a joke all sparks should be allowed to do it

 

[Leesparkykent]

The hassle to get a job to fit an isolator and a seal is beyond a joke all sparks should be allowed to do it

EDF wont even fit an isolator...Complete joke. I had BG out fitting some meters on a new build this week, got chatting to the bloke and he was an ex cavity wall insulation monkey which they trained up for meter fitting when the insulation game died of death. Now this guy is more qualified to pull a 100A fuse than an electrician who has done an apprenticeship haha.

 

[garaoke]

So, anonymous poll - who pulls the main fuse when required (ie CU change) and who get's the DNO/supplier/whoever in to sort it?

The hassle to get a job to fit an isolator and a seal is beyond a joke all sparks should be allowed to do it

 

[johnduffell]

We got an isolator fitted for free, the supplier and dno both said the other should do it, but eventually the supplier gave in and sent someone from g4s after a week or two. I think their quote was 60 quid but they said they'd add it to our bill and never did.
I got the impression noone ever asked before so they didn't know what to do.

 

[gazdkw82]

Iv not been impressed with my first experiencing dealing with DNO (western power) I had a real messy main earthling terminal that had been chopped, terminalled to death etc. I suspected it was unsatisfactory. Rang DNO, unless I could prove it was unsafe then they wouldn't be interested. Did a Ze reading which came out at 0.16, so didn't comply (tns) I rang them up and told them. They still seemed relunctant until I told them the main fuse housing had a whole in it!...

They came round within a day and changed it all. Its now on TNCS.

I asked them about fitting an isolator. They wanted £160.

I politely told them that was ridiculous.

 

[johnduffell]

0.16 is fine for ze isn't it? Especially tns. Sure you don't mean 1.6?

 

[gazdkw82]

0.16 is fine for ze isn't it? Especially tns. Sure you don't mean 1.6?

0.8 is the max for a tns

 

[DPG]

Maximum not minimum. Daz

 

[johnduffell]

Yeah exactly, I was replying to the above poster "Did a Ze reading which came out at 0.16, so didn't comply (tns)" but my point is that's an excellent reading so I don't know why it doesn't comply.

 

[gazdkw82]

Yeah exactly, I was replying to the above poster "Did a Ze reading which came out at 0.16, so didn't comply (tns)" but my point is that's an excellent reading so I don't know why it doesn't comply.

you know what, your absolutely right. It must have been the gaping hole in the fuse housing that caught they're attention

 

[DPG]

Iwell I'm confused now. Daz

 

[hightower]

Iwell I'm confused now. Daz

I think Gaz was maybe confused in thinking 0.16 was a higher reading than 0.8, as 16 is a higher reading than 8.

 

[gazdkw82]

I think Gaz was maybe confused in thinking 0.16 was a higher reading than 0.8, as 16 is a higher reading than 8.

spot on.

 

[Stu1312]

The dno's really need to get there act together and approve a scheme like SSE for electricians to pull fuses then crack down on people who aren't approved. I will say that using the correct ppe is essential though, this happened when one of our technicians pulled a cut out fuse.

 

[gazdkw82]

so what would be considered as the "official" ppe for this