Emergency! Help needed - 3-phase meter install

[buzzlightyear]

What we need is the picture of the current set up of the meter.

 

[buzzlightyear]

electrician's said the supply is there only the

the question why was it not done .

 

[snowhead]

Back to the begining for a moment.

Was the Restaurant originally a single phase supply with a single phase meter?
And has it now had a new 3 phase supply installed?

Or did it have a 3 phase supply with 2 phases unused and a single meter on 1 phase?

If the latter, has an application been made to the local D.N.O for a 3 phase supply and have they given approval?
It can't just be assumed that because the other 2 phases are live that the local network can take any load on them.
The supplier, B.G Lite would need to have sight of that approval before they fit a 3phase meter.
The main electrical contractor should have discussed this at the planning stage.

I don't beleive BGL would get involved in the application for a 3phase supply.
If the original request to them was for a 3ph meter and they only had record of a single phase supply, that's all they can fit.
No other supplier would be able to fit a 3 ph meter.

 

[Will Partridge]

 

[Will Partridge]

That's a pic of the board. There are 2 supplies that run up to some residential flats above, and one that is for my commercial unit

 

[Jim_e_Jib]

Are the two supplies to the flats upstairs the other two phases?

The Ryefield board doesn't appear to have any gromets protecting the cable entries. It would be worth getting this looked at as the metal edges could cut in to the cable.

 

[Octopus]

That's not pretty .... And can you have 3 phase is the question

 

[buzzlightyear]

That looks like the dogs *****s ,to me the op might need a new supply for it .maybe that's why they did not change the meter.

 

[johnduffell]

No space on the board so they left the termination floating around in front of the cutout!
Also those tails are supposed to go through the same hole in the metallic box to avoid wasting energy warming up the box and possible fault current issues.

 

[Strima]

That's rough...

 

[westward10]

Looks like the tails from the head loop into the Ryefield so three phase is probably present and in use, the supplies to the flats must be out of view. Who installed that unfixed service terminal block?

 

[Taylortwocities]

And lovely plastic tape work on that line tail

Good grief, its a dog's chucked up breakfast.

 

[snowhead]

Re Picture ,another question that possibly only the onsite Electrician can answer,
Were the 2 Flats connected to the other 2 phase fuses and they've been moved into the Ryefield?
All the tails from cutout to Ryefield and also up to the flats look to have been replaced

 

[Strima]

Where's the meters for the flats? Can you show us a picture showing more of the installation?

 

[MFS Electrical]

Where are the grommets?