Just been to a subdivided house - now up+downstairs flats. There are two earth rods which go to a single earth block under the floor, then leave the block as two earths up to the C/Us. (Effectively each flat is connected to the two spikes). There is a single mains head with 100A BS1361 fuse...
Went and had a look at a potential job, on the main incomer the label readed this electrical system is supplied by pme earthing.
I looked outside and saw the property was supplied via an overhead line. Can this still be a pme system?
I called western power to come and sort the earth out for a customer, so they said we only do tn-c-s pme. when the chap came he did a tn-s with a strap on the cable!! i said to the guy thats a tn-s he said no its a pme.
what do i but on the EIC Tn-s.
also he said that they only fit a max of...
I am looking from some advice regarding installing an SWA cable from a house to a stand alone garage some 20 metres from the house. The incoming supply to the house is PME. I understand that I will need to put in a seperate earth electrode for the garage installation. I am installing a seperate...
timmy123
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just been to have a look at some electrical work on a house, underneath the main fuse there is a trafolite label saying PME system but the supply authority haven't supplied an earth, someone has clipped a 6mm cable down the side of the house and buried the end in the ground (stripped a foot of...
Been to a property recently that has a TN-C-S supply installed, but the innstallation earthing is via a spike. As the supply has recently been installed I was going to move the earthing back to the supplier (Scottish Power) unfortunately when tested, the Ze was 0.79. An engineer has just been...
Graeme Harrold
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