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That's a good way to PME a supply :nono:
Found this on a farm on an EICR....!!!
The SWA goes straight to the pole next to the barn where it is stripped and joined straight to the overhead supply!!!
No meter either!
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Found this on a farm on an EICR....!!!
The SWA goes straight to the pole next to the barn where it is stripped and joined straight to the overhead supply!!!
No meter either!
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Private overhead or DNO overhead?
That's the way to do it!
The overhead is on the customers side of the meter.
Looks like the farmer done it himself!
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So it's a private overhead.
How old is the overhead? On a farm it is still possible to find the old old old TNC overhead distribution circuits
That is exactly what it is, never seen it before.
It's 10mm tails on a 80m run on a 100a fuse.
Lovely job lol
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I'm not surprised, it's as rare as rocking horse poo these days thankfully!
It would have to be 13th edition at the latest. The fact that these still exist is the reason the regs about them still exist (see PEN conductors) to allow them to be maintained despite being illegal to install new now.
The overheads should be 'hard drawn' copper rather than standard soft drawn cable, and can be bare conductors if on insulators. The CCC is higher due to being in free air and not exposed to touch.
We had a stock of imperial hard drawn red and black where I served my apprenticeship in the stores left over from jobs on local farms.
The drop cables would normally be connected using line taps (basically a split bolt and nut) I think TLC still list them bizarrely
Sounds about spot on,
Apart from the drop cable is a bit of SWA just stripped back and joined with 60amp choc blocks lol
I looked at Pen conductors during the EICR but due to it saying that they cannot be used within an installation I disregarded it completely and assumed it was a massive bodge up!
Apparently it hasn't been tested since installed lol.
Thanks for the information.
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Amongst numerous other issues in the piccy, the one that hindered me was I couldn't get CUs cover off. I think the gas meter must have been changed to have the raised up part on the left hand side at some point. Idiots!
Not as good as TheGayOwl's but I had this the other day. The cu cover wont close as the door casing impinges on it. The space is to small to get a normal screwdriver in to remove the far side retaining screw and the cover doesn't sit flush in any event (see the top).
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Top of the board!
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Henley's to the side of the CU. The exposed conductor is the Live.
The shower unit the Henley split feeds.
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The meter tails were approx 8m from the DNO cut-out and unprotected.
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