Live cable taken straight off busbar..Reg no. required.

[dtec dave]

Evening...Can anyone tell me which reg this breaks??

It feeds a switched fuse.

 

[westward10]

Drill a hole elsewhere on the busbar !!
But yes that is a busbar support with the bolt captive in the bakelite so you could never tighten it too much.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Drill a hole elsewhere on the busbar !!
But yes that is a busbar support with the bolt captive in the bakelite so you could never tighten it too much.

That’s ok then.
Just need to cut a hole in the cover for the cable.

 

[ipf]

No that board never had busbar covers QUOTE]




Mystic Meg?

 

[Deleted member 9648]

I will Code it no matter where it is.

Hopefully there isn't an MCB with more than one cable connected as well or you'll have the place evacuated

 

[Deleted member 9648]

I agree but I would not like to make a judgement on a non recommended ad hoc connection that it does not pose a danger as you have nothing to gauge it against. It is difficult to see but the only way that lug can be fitting flat to the busbar is if it has broken the plastic busbar support which it looks like it has.

You could gauge it by the fact that it has almost certainly been there for a considerable time, (red cable), and seems not to have spontaneously combusted yet.

 

[Wilko]

If the bolt just screws into the bakelite I'm not sure you could reliably torque it. So I'm back with the thought that it's a locating bolt, not a termination point so it will not be designed for this use.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

If you expand the photo, you can see that the nut and bolt is connecting two lengths of busbar.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

If this was a domestic board and the connection was on the busbar you would all code it on an EICR .

Would you care to quote the regulation you are basing that on?

 

[Wilko]

If you expand the photo, you can see that the nut and bolt is connecting two lengths of busbar.

Oops - missed that

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Yeah, I did at first.

 

[paul291277]

I wouldn't do it but can we just call it unorthadox?

 

[westward10]

I wouldn't do it but can we just call it unorthadox?

I would call in something else.

 

[ipf]

I would call in something else.

I wonder if he would call this the same?
Anybody got a Reg no.....and I mean for the live loop off.

 

[jackhammerJIM]

Would you care to quote the regulation you are basing that on?

134.1.1
134.1.4

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Debatable