3 Phase connection

[Worcester]

@GavinA, it was this post by fresun that has me worried for his and his clients safety:

"It's a challenge to get a good understanding of such an in depth and rightly so safety critical trade, the format for studying now I found to be mostly theory which as the old adage goes ' a life time of theory is worth an ounce of practice'

I am finding in order to gain the understanding level that would have been achieved by the original several years as an apprentice on the tools, it is now necessary to pool all of knowledge, Literature, Web, technical support.

Looking for position as apprentice / improver in the South Essex area, to hone my Full scope + Part P and MCS PV Quals."

 

[Gavin A]

@GavinA, it was this post by fresun that has me worried for his and his clients safety:

I was assuming 'MCS solar pv quals' meant fresun was MCS certified, and in a bit of a similar position to me when I first started, and rapidly realised the Part P short courses didn't actually equip you for anything like all the situations you find yourself in when wiring in customers houses, despite having a decent working knowledge of renewables and electrics in a non domestic setting.

Simple answer for me was hire a time served spark initially self employed on a job by job basis til we took them on full time, and work alongside them, building up my knowledge, skills and experience in the process, then work our way up through the domestic, onto a few 10kWp, then bigger systems.

I was incredibly glad I'd done that when on pretty much our next job it turned out on testing that the house was supposed to be TN-CS, but the suppliers earth had actually come disconnected up the street. The spark was straight on the phone to the DNO, then a couple of hours later they rocked up, checked their earth connections and came back to inform us they'd sorted it. I really doubt I'd have trusted my test results enough at that point to be confident in telling the DNO their earth supply wasn't present.

So yes, I'd be worried if they were going to do it by themselves, less so if they bring the necessary experience on board for the job, and take their advice, and learn from them.