No service head fuse?

[1Justin]

So I was at a 2 bed flat today, ground floor on 4 storey block. 3 years old flats. The supply head holds a red fuse holder reading " solid link, do not fuse". TN-S and the CU is just off the bottom of this shot below the 100A isolator. ~75 cm tails.
"Fuse" is all crimp sealed, I didn't pull it, original DNO work. What's going on here then?

 

[snowhead]

Follow the Orange cable to it's source.

 

[SJD]

As mentioned, I'd expect to find a fuse at the other end of the orange cable.

BUT, if this orange cable combines N and E between the fuse and this dummy head/link, I thought that was no longer permissible?

 

[buzzlightyear]

Fuse" is all crimp sealed, I didn't pull it,

there is a link in side not your standard fuse .

 

[buzzlightyear]

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[1Justin]

I didn't have time to check further, was only there to swap some mvhr fan filters. Orange cable doesn't combine NE, it's TN-s. Presumably some fusing down the way. Was a bit surprised to see it done this way since the meter is this end. The orange cable must be a sub-main fused..somewhere.

 

[westward10]

How do you know that is not a concentric cable.

 

[Toneyz]

Seen this many times service cable into landlords cupboard, fuses in ryfield board then orange cable up to as photo.

 

[1Justin]

I guess it is. Simple answer. - But what threw me was the meter at this end. I guess there's no requirement on the supplier ( not talking DNO any longer) to put their meter in any particular part of their cable. I'm just not used to working in flats.

 

[SJD]

Last time I came across this, the issue was that the DNO owned the head in the landlord's cupboard. And the supplier owned the meter. But nobody wanted to own the piece of cable in between, i.e. the orange cable.

 

[1Justin]

So the fuse holder is just a convenient connector to terminate the concentric into tails.

 

[7029 dave]

It is a red link, there will be a fused cut out upstream/ or multi way.

 

[buzzlightyear]

you tell them dave .

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Looks like split concentric.

 

[snowhead]

So the fuse holder is just a convenient connector to terminate the concentric into tails.

It's a local point of isolation for the Meter.