Making a temporary power supply

[GLENNSPARK]

Evenin all.....
This is something i knocked up earlier. A 6 way memara board with 4 ways blanked off and 1x 16A and 1x 32A BS 3871 MCBs. 32A feeding 3 sockets on a ring ant the 16A feeding the bottom right socket as a radial. Bit of ply and a few hours and its nearly ready. Just needs some 10mm hi-tough to finish......

 

[needasparks]

Is that a metalclad board ?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

No ..plastic mate...just one that came off a job but looked in good nick so i thought "i`l have that".....with this in mind....

 

[topquark]

Usefull. Make sure you cert it and keep a copy with you mate, just in case

 

[i=p/u]

why you want one of these, there was dude at bootsale on sunday selling old hager boards fully loaded 20 quid, well when i say old i mean had mainswitch like yours, why you need one of these??? i dont know

 

[i=p/u]

what ever happened to aa extension lead, do i sound like a customer

 

[needasparks]

Looks a better little house than the builders im working with have built. nice job.
thats the bit i give the apprentice to do as its always a laugh when the whole site is shouting for power and they get in a tiz

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Just an old board I had knockin about....not at work today and was bored so i thought have a sesh with the saws n that........

 

[needasparks]

just fit a radio in the side and its a good-un.

 

[jar]

In the olden days when I was self employed as opposed to being a pretend self employed cis4 agency worker, you needed this type of board on many small jobs. Remember we must protect the other people on site who may use power.

Scottish power would not allow a temp conection to be connected to there earth network to protect there workforce. You had to use an earth spike and an rcd until your install was complete.
Then (Dont all laugh at once) an inspector would come and check that your install was safe before they would reconect you.
In the Edinburgh area you rang an office in Portobello spoke to a person who had a name and they were very helpful but very fussy about the quality and safety of your install. Ah the good old days.

 

[i=p/u]

portabello, nearly moved there one time..... ended up in edinburgh for few days then we were let down cuase of the frinddge vestival,, so here i am back in norn iron.... anyhwoo, so if you use hi tuff, do you just connect into main cutout

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Well I will solder the bare ends up (after flattening em a bit for maximum contact) and then yep...either the consumers side of the meter or the bullit.....

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I will get a set of results for it n all as TQ says so its all covered...

 

[i=p/u]

so what do you charge for other trades per hour ? depnds on kwh of there toolss

 

[GLENNSPARK]

so what do you charge for other trades per hour ? depnds on kwh of there toolss

If they want to plug their stuff in I dont have a problem......wont be my leccy there eating anyway..lol........