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Main feeder pillar contains TNCS incoming supply single phase 100A main fuse, 25mm DNO tails, meter, 100A double pole isolator switch, 25mm tails/16mm CPC to 63A rotary isolator, 10mm SWA cable 25m run to digital advertising panel into a 100A double pole main switch.

Digital advertising panel DB contains 7x C10 RCBOs for the 7 sections of the screen wired in 1.5mm flex.

My question is as follows.. is the main fuse head satisfactory protection for that 10mm SWA cable? Or does it require a switched fuse isolator as it is over 3m in length? Furthermore should it have its own DB and the SWA on a 50A MCB due to the cable size being 10mm and in ducting underground which can only take a maximum of 58 amps.

As it stands that cable has a 63amp rotary isolator & a 100A DP switch before the isolator. Meaning the only protection it has is that 100A main fuse which assuming it actually has a 100A fuse inside doesn’t provide satisfactory overload protection for this cable size in the first place.
 

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