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Attached is a picture of the service head at our house. Is this a type that the DNO should replace for free upon notification?

It looks very old, and may have a fused neutral line, I can't quite see through the sight glass to see whether this is the case. The conductors going to the meter look like they have some sort of fabric covering and look very thin compared to the modern meter tails.

The CU is a Wylex rewireable fuse unit that I'd like to get upgraded; one advantage of this head is that it appears to have a built-in isolator (lever on the top rhs), but I think it needs to go.

Thanks in advance.

Tony (Householder)
 
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Thanks for posting the pic! That's a nice thing, please do try to make sure it doesn't get scrapped or broken up during replacement. When it was installed, if the service was DC the meter would have looked more like one of these: Electrokinetica - Factory: Intake room

FWIW if you eventually decide you don't want it rattling around the house once it has been replaced, we would certainly be interested in giving it a home at Electrokinetica where we are starting to build displays of early wiring systems. I need to find complete sets of equipment from each decade - easier said than done these days.

Cheers
Lucien

PS my first post on the forum!
 
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Lucien Nunes said:
Thanks for posting the pic! That's a nice thing, please do try to make sure it doesn't get scrapped or broken up during replacement. When it was installed, if the service was DC the meter would have looked more like one of these: Electrokinetica - Factory: Intake room

FWIW if you eventually decide you don't want it rattling around the house once it has been replaced, we would certainly be interested in giving it a home at Electrokinetica where we are starting to build displays of early wiring systems. I need to find complete sets of equipment from each decade - easier said than done these days.

Cheers
Lucien

PS my first post on the forum!
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Welcome along Lucien,

Are you a collector / museum?
 
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Hi RWJ
Thanks for the welcome, with this hat on I'm the erstwhile curator of a forthcoming electrical museum 'Electrokinetica', but I do electrical installation as part of the day job too. So it's a bit of a busman's holiday really. I'll go and introduce myself properly on the new members forum area. A friend pointed out the picture of the vintage service cutout, and I thought it was about time to sign up so I could add my approval to the OP trying to save it for posterity.
Cheers
Lucien
 
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From that statement, you’ve never come across old switchgear.

It would out last any modern isolator.
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I do agree things aren't made as good as they once were but I think this is by it's best. Did a spell fitting meters and used to attend cut out replacements and guys from DNO said these were getting stuck in the off position quite often. Usually as per the OP new occupier being curious.
 
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Lucien...
is that a foreign word for...
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Nope, just the French version of the Latin for light. I used to be a bulb in a former life. 150W GLS pearl BC, according to my birth cert.
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