DIY Earthing !!

[Golden_Boy]

My dearest Daughter bought the house she was after and I eventually got to look at her Supply arrangement.
YES that is a jubilee clip you see clamping the (undersized) earth to the sheath.. looks a bit "IFFY" but zs is .23 of an ohm..

 

[trev]

Crikey

 

[MDJ]

see it literally countless times like that, crap but it works, if the reading is okay then great, what would you do otherwise to that out of interest? apart from cut the plastic away from the cable LOL

 

[Golden_Boy]

see it literally countless times like that, crap but it works, if the reading is okay then great, what would you do otherwise to that out of interest? apart from cut the plastic away from the cable LOL

I dont intend doing anything at all. Thats up to the electrician she is employing to carry out work there.
I merly examined the system to ensure it was SAFE...

 

[MDJ]

I dont intend doing anything at all. Thats up to the electrician she is employing to carry out work there.
I merly examined the system to ensure it was SAFE...

I wasn't having a go M8, just wondering what else you could possibly do, as you say it's not your problem anyhow.

 

[Golden_Boy]

 

[MDJ]

that's probably worse fella haha

 

[Golden_Boy]

I'll be having a look at the finished job in a few weeks time .. I wonder if it will still be there ( with a bit of 16mm jammed in )
we shall see.....

 

[driverman]

Re pic I wouldn't either lol. The sparky can inform the local DNO when his work has been completed.

 

[Engineer54]

I bet you won't get much of a Ze value out of that connection!!!! That jubilee clips looks to me, as if it's been attached to the PVC sheath of that DNO cable. It certainly doesn't look like any PILC that i've ever seen in the past!!

As for your extremely poor selection of the correct cable earthing clamp to use, i think your right to leave it another electrician. Hopefully, he will know about ''Constant Force'' spring earthing clamps. Not that they would be any good, on what could well be, a concentric or split concentric cable!! lol!! Maybe better to, contact the DNO and ascertain exactly what, if any, earthing system is being supplied to this installation!!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Crikey

not necessarily..
seen loads of these...
look, it aint rite ....we all know it need a constant pressure spring n all that lot...
but as long as Ze is rite....then it`s a 3...no more...no less...

 

[telectrix]

as eng. says. and what makes you think that the cable is undersized? have you used the adiabatic?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

sorry....just looked at it again...
it may be just relying on extranoius and if so its a fail...
straight off...

 

[trev]

not necessarily..
seen loads of these...
look, it aint rite ....we all know it need a constant pressure spring n all that lot...
but as long as Ze is rite....then it`s a 3...no more...no less...

Yes Glenn I'm aware of that although I might be inclined to dispute the coding, the comment was more in surprise at the Ze than the clamp. I've seen boatloads like this, and worse.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

as eng. says. and what makes you think that the cable is undersized? have you used the adiabatic?

excactly...
whats this `thing` that some in here have with the adiabatic?