no earth

[GLENNSPARK]

I must admit that if any upgrading to the water system took place where the old lead water mains was cut off in the road you would still have anything up to 30m of buried lead pipe in the ground.
This now being obsolete would make a very nice 'twigg' and then on used as the earth electrode for the installation. One would assume that RCDs/RCBOs were in place if the Ra was too high.........

I've just managed to get a front row seat - you can stuff the pop corn !

same goes for private services (boreholes)...if you can ensure there will be no `upgrades` or tampering etc...

 

[Stroppy]

Where can I buy some lead pipe, please?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Where can I buy some lead pipe, please?

pikeys

 

[ackbarthestar]

Don't forget the rated breaking capacity of your equipment is only 6KA though...

Well do the calculation or measure it. Assume a mx supply voltage of 250V then I think you could just get away with it as long as TX was less than 0.8MVA

 

[Silly Sausage]

Where can I buy some lead pipe, please?

PM a certain member on here!

 

[ackbarthestar]

Yes, it's extremely claggy ............ it's like sackcloth soaked in diahorroea and smells like it too.

Yes, I remember that stuff. There was talk about wrapping it round someones clanger so when his misses got 'heated up', the girth would bind against the sides....

That one brought tears to my eyes.

 

[Engineer54]

I must admit that if any upgrading to the water system took place where the old lead water mains was cut off in the road you would still have anything up to 30m of buried lead pipe in the ground.
This now being obsolete would make a very nice 'twigg' and then on used as the earth electrode for the installation. One would assume that RCDs/RCBOs were in place if the Ra was too high.........

I've just managed to get a front row seat - you can stuff the pop corn !

Wouldn't be up to much as an earth electrode, Just a typical extraneous service value, unless you stripped all the protective wrapping off of it!! ...lol!!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Wouldn't be up to much as an earth electrode, Just a typical extraneous service value, unless you stripped all the protective wrapping off of it!! ...lol!!

and theres nothing to day that in future the path isn`t dug up...and that 30 meters all of a sudden becomes about 3-4...lol...
you just cant rely on it...

 

[Silly Sausage]

Yes, I remember that stuff. There was talk about wrapping it round someones clanger so when his misses got 'heated up', the girth would bind against the sides....

That one brought tears to my eyes.

Ooooooo...NASTY!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Yes, I remember that stuff. There was talk about wrapping it round someones clanger so when his misses got 'heated up', the girth would bind against the sides....

That one brought tears to my eyes.

is that `sticky toffee pudding` then ack?...