Earth Spike Test Kit

[uksparks]

Hi,

I ordered a Fluke ES165X Earth Spike Test Kit yesterday, arrived this morning, has a go with it in the garden, popped a single 5/8 rod in and got 57 Ohms, im going to stack another two on top of it and see what I get after the weekend when the shop opens again as have no more rods!

The kit is quite good.

I thought I would get one as have a job in a week or so where I am going to be putting a few rods in to get a good reading and would like to put them in before I run the SWA down to it, so will be able to get my earth ready!

I am going to aim for sub 1 Ohm! Ill keep you posted on what happens with that. I won't give in until I get under an Ohm.

 

[Marvo]

Hmm any chance you could just leave it alone?

 

[Leesparkykent]

Well it doesn't hurt to TT it, it gives me a challenge, I may well be wrong but was under that impression, I did have a read of the iet documents on outbuildings etc, but it brings up extraneous metal more so.

the wiring, the customer is wanting it very tidy in the inside and doesn't particularly want to see conduit, so will be putting conduit on the outside where it's not going to be seen as he will be planting trees all round it.

so doing it in the outside, you will then just have the sockets. Should look good.

happy days, looks like a good job to get some pics for the website.

 

[PEG]

Just ensure it is not the old water pipe,which has what looks like an asbestos covering. This stuff is very fragile,and next to impossible to branch or join.

Always best to research a bit,before knocking a hole in an unknown pipe/duct...:yes:

 

[HandySparks]

No not rigid, it's corrugated and packed with gravel, I'm sure it was yellow. When BGT finishes, I'll go out in the garden with a spade and take a pic!

If yellow and corrugated, it should be a duct housing a gas pipe. On the other hand, if it's perforated as well, which gas duct can be, someone may have used it as a land drain.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Could be a French drain.

French drain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[uksparks]

It's green and nothing in it, just poked a hole in it!

 

[uksparks]

It must be some kind of surface run off coming from next door? I'll poke a rod down it with a bit of cable on then get my cable tracer out to see where it goes!

 

[Leesparkykent]

It must be some kind of surface run off coming from next door? I'll poke a rod down it with a bit of cable on then get my cable tracer out to see where it goes!

Green ducts are normally used for cable TV.

 

[uksparks]

There's definately nothing in it, maybe it was put there for future purposes? Our house was built in 2001 so it's not that old.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Does it run roughly where the gutter down pipe is?

 

[uksparks]

No not really, I've had the manholes up too and it doesn't go towards any of them.

i think I'll just forget about it and wait for my bamboo to attack it!

 

[Barry White]

looks like a perforated land drain to drain surface water fron the garden it will run to a soakaway just had a quick google and it comes in green too!! personally only seen black and orange. it is also suposed to be surounded in shingle so the story fits.

http://uk-viewprice.hol.es/price4/-...d-water-run-off-drying-out-and-dispersal.html

 

[uksparks]

Isn't the Internet a wonderful place!

 

[GB.Kayak]

Isn't the Internet a wonderful place!

Hey uks, I would attempt to tape up that hole ... it will help to silt up the 'French' or land drain quicker than it would otherwise clog!

 

[davesparks]

I dug trenches and put miles of that stuff in at my first Saturday job on a horticultural nursery. It was white then though.