I completely agree mate. I would bond the internal copper even if it turned into plastic as it exited the building. However, I thought wire puller was getting at the suitability of the main gas bond to carry large fault currents, and presumably because he was stressing TNCS he meant if the neutral (and hence main earth) was lost the pipe route was not reliable, but if it's plastic outside it won't anyway will it?
 
I completely agree mate. I would bond the internal copper even if it turned into plastic as it exited the building. However, I thought wire puller was getting at the suitability of the main gas bond to carry large fault currents, and presumably because he was stressing TNCS he meant if the neutral (and hence main earth) was lost the pipe route was not reliable, but if it's plastic outside it won't anyway will it?
Apologies, did misinterpret your post.
 
Apologies, did misinterpret your post.
none required mate. Not sure if this is all worth getting worried about, as others have said. The pipe works all connected at the boiler anyway and any part of it in any installation could easily be disrupted by plumbing activity. How many people have ever seen or heard of a neutral being lost anyway??
 
In my own house the CU and boiler are in one cupboard, the gas meter in a separate cupboard on opposite side of kitchen and incoming water at other end of the room. On my last Elecsa assessment I asked if i could bond from MET to the gas at boiler and onto water at boiler and confirm continuity to incoming water and gas and the assessor said put note on cert and all would be fine.
 
In my own house the CU and boiler are in one cupboard, the gas meter in a separate cupboard on opposite side of kitchen and incoming water at other end of the room. On my last Elecsa assessment I asked if i could bond from MET to the gas at boiler and onto water at boiler and confirm continuity to incoming water and gas and the assessor said put note on cert and all would be fine.
seems logical to me
 
A protective earth conductor may be a number of things, trunking, SWA armour or even pipe work (excepting any pipe work which contains a flammable material or one belonging to a utility company).
 
I completely agree mate. I would bond the internal copper even if it turned into plastic as it exited the building. However, I thought wire puller was getting at the suitability of the main gas bond to carry large fault currents, and presumably because he was stressing TNCS he meant if the neutral (and hence main earth) was lost the pipe route was not reliable, but if it's plastic outside it won't anyway will it?

Nothing to do with fault currents,on a TNCS system the bonding conductors may carry a significant current under normal load conditions,thats why there is a requirement for 10mm.
 
I don't have a regs book handy either....but I am certain this applies to supplementary bonding only, not main bonding.

It's protective conductors in general. You can also use cable armour/sheath, structural steel, conduit, trunking
 
Nothing to do with fault currents,on a TNCS system the bonding conductors may carry a significant current under normal load conditions,thats why there is a requirement for 10mm.
come on then W/P, how under normal conditions can a TNCS system have "significant" current flowing through the EB?
 
come on then W/P, how under normal conditions can a TNCS system have "significant" current flowing through the EB?

Because main bonding is connected to a metallic service at or near earth potential, and is electrically connected to the neutral terminal. Therefore a parallel path is created through which a proportion of the neutral current may divert. Do you think the required CSA of TNCS/PME bonding conductors are increased over TT/TNS for fun?
 
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come on then W/P, how under normal conditions can a TNCS system have "significant" current flowing through the EB?

Diverted neutral currents, which is the reason that PME supplies require larger main bonding and that the bonding size be maintained back to the PME terminal at the cutout.
 
Because main bonding is connected to a metallic service at or near earth potential, and is electrically connected to the neutral terminal. Therefore a parallel path is created through which a proportion of the neutral current may divert. Do you think the required CSA of TNCS/PME bonding conductors are increased over TT/TNS for fun?
A proportion yes, but I don't think the word significant is particularly apt under normal conditions?
 
A proportion yes, but I don't think the word significant is particularly apt under normal conditions?

Why not significant? If an old iron water main feeds a row of houses and each one has main bonding connecting that water main to the supply neutral then it will see a significant proportion of the neutral current
 
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