Meter Tails - Blue Sheath?

[needasparks]

DNO and meter fitters have been fitting brown/brown and blue/blue in essex for years, I assumed it was happening everywhere.
Where you all been hiding.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Get some heat shrink, or sleeving.

 

[rob28870]

They were Fastlec part no.s 6181Y25SPLITBLU & 6181Y25SPLITBRN. The picture on their website shows grey sheaths but when I ordered from them the cable they delivered had blue or brown sheaths (the description on their website doesn't actually specify the sheath colour). Might be worth phoning and asking them about it if you really must have coloured sheaths.

Hi,

I work at Fastlec and we usually have both grey outer or coloured outer. Occasionally, the cable manufacturers themselves run out of the coloured outer (which is very popular with our local contractors). Give us a call on 01903 730050 before you buy and we can check the current state of play with stock for you.

Best Regards

Robin
Fastlec

 

[kingeri]

I see a lot of older tails around here with no sheath at all, just red and blue insulation. Did sheathing / putting in conduit not used to be a requirement? Off topic, I know.

 

[sedgy34]

Hi

i've been told 25mm meter tails now have to be blue/blue? yet i can't find a supplier of 25mm blue/blue cable...

does anyone know if you're still allowed to use blue/grey & if you're not, where can I find blue/blue?

Double insulated doesn't matter about the colour of outer sheath

 

[nickblake]

i always use a bt of coloured heat shrink on my tails so identified electricity suppliers lable them L1 1 L2 L3 and N , and always use brown for live blue for neutral and never 2 blues with heat shrink on

 

[JD6400]

We did a rewire about two years ago for a local client who owns a property in Brighton and that had blue and brown double insulated tails from the meter , and the local CEF branch down there only had them in stock .
Have seen them starting to appear around Bucks recently as well now .

 

[Knobhead]

At the end of the day does it matter if the outer sheath is Sky Blue Pink with Yellow Dots.

Just so long as the inner cores are correctly identified and terminated.

 

[ExArmy]

my CEF sells this,nobody else up here does though. same price, means i don't have to put a bit of tape on the grey stuff

 

[Guest55]

our compliance manager, he states MOCOPA requirements. i had a look on their website & found this:

"A11.3 For single insulated cables, or the insulation of insulated and sheathed cable, the MOCOPA​

Operators, Distribution Businesses and UMetS providers shall use the following colours where they provide new or replacement cables.The insulation of the line conductors of a polyphase phase supply shall be either:a. all brown and marked L1, L2, L3 at both ends, orb. brown, black and grey and marked L1, L2, L3 at both ends.All neutral conductors shall have blue insulation and marked N at both ends.For conductors of less than 500mm in length and clearly visible throughout, marking at one end may be considered acceptable.A11.4 For insulated and sheathed cables the sheath may be the same colour as the insulation (as defined in A11.3). Where the sheath colour is not the same as the insulation, then it should be a colour other than brown, black, grey, blue, yellow, red, green or greenyellow, i.e. not any colour that is currently, or has historically, been used to identify line, neutral or earth conductors.​

^^^ Has anybody bothered to read this properly ?
It states outer sheathing may be the same colour as the insulation , not must.
Therefore not compulsory.
Pfft , thats jobsworths for you.

 

[Guest111]

^^^ Has anybody bothered to read this properly ?
It states outer sheathing may be the same colour as the insulation , not must.
Therefore not compulsory.
Pfft , thats jobsworths for you.

Think its the last bit where it says that if the sheath is not the same colour as the insulation then it should be a colour other than brown black grey blue yellow red green or green/yellow that started it off.

 

[Guest55]

Think its the last bit where it says that if the sheath is not the same colour as the insulation then it should be a colour other than brown black grey blue yellow red green or green/yellow that started it off.

My bad lol.

 

[Joe S]

CEF stock the B/B & Br/Br Tails and I have used them before. I use whatever they have in stock at the time

 

[somersetsparks]

I don't really think the outer sheath colour matters,
but the ones we (sometimes)use are made by copper cable company, however even being a dno we ususally fit grey outer sheaths with L1,L2,L3 or N labels as applicable

 

[Thomas123]

Tell your compliance manager he's stupid