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• May 18, 2014

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What is the original earthing arrangement anyway? You don't say!

 

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• May 18, 2014

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Why would you make a grain house TT?? I can understand where livestock is involved.

 

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• May 18, 2014

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Tnc, just ever one goes on about every farm should be tt, and with there not been a dedicated earth core

 

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• May 18, 2014

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Without knowing an overall design it's impossible to be sure, but from what you've described I would keep the TNS throughout (double check your earth conductor requirements using the adiabatic, but I'd have thought a 16mm SWA would be sufficient csa eq.) and just look at fitting RCD protection at 300 or 500mA only to locations where they may be risk of fire (think about dust etc). If the design has been done properly and discrimination taken into account then there shouldn't be any tripping issues anyway.

However........I suspect that it's probably like any other farm I've ever been on and is a real spider-web mess of DIY electrics and broken kit!!

 

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davesparks

• May 18, 2014

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Simon-0116 said:

Tnc, just ever one goes on about every farm should be tt, and with there not been a dedicated earth core

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Read the regs book and guidance note, don't just go by what you have heard or think everyone else does.

 

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GLENNSPARK

• May 18, 2014

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Engineer54 said:

Why would you make a grain house TT?? I can understand where livestock is involved.

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here...some livestock:



keep the mice down....

you`l need to construct a faraday cage for it...

 

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• May 18, 2014

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You do not have to go TT as no livestock will ever be about ( As long as you are absolutely positive of this ! ) , but you will need to protect everything with a RCD of no greater than 300mA ( Used to be 500mA for he 17th , but has now changed to this for the 16th ) , you could even drop this to 100mA , but as most grain handling systems are now starting to go inverter drive you may have issues with just 100mA of fault protection , and don't forget it wants to be an s-type .
As for placing it at source , in the house , or at the first shed , only you know the site conditions .

 

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• May 18, 2014

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Simon-0116 said:

The main swa from house is 16mm 4 core, swa as earth.

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Nope, using the SWA for your main earth to this grain shed is a non starter, the Armouring will not comply where main bonding is also required, it's only suitable for purposes of providing the cables CPC.... You're going to need to provide a separate earth conductor, 10mm minimum.

 

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• May 18, 2014

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What's the equivalent csa of armouring on a 16mm2 4 core??

 

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• May 18, 2014

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What's the equivalent csa of armouring on a 16mm2 4 core??

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16mm² 4 core SWA would have a csa of 50mm² steel but you would need 80mm² steel to comply with bonding requirements.

 

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Engineer54

• May 18, 2014

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atm84 said:

What's the equivalent csa of armouring on a 16mm2 4 core??

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In terms of copper equivalent, nowhere near what is required!! Steel needs to be approx 8.5 X that of copper....

 

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GLENNSPARK

• May 18, 2014

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here:

View attachment pvc_xlpe.pdf

 

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Engineer54

• May 18, 2014

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GLENNSPARK said:

here:

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For gods sake Glenn, dump that bloody old table where it belongs, in the bloody BIN!! lol!!

 

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GLENNSPARK

• May 18, 2014

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Engineer54 said:

For gods sake Glenn, dump that bloody old table where it belongs, in the bloody BIN!! lol!!

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hmm...

sorry about that..lol..:sad_smile:

 

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