Safety electrical connection label on Earth Rod

[ringer]

About to put in a 5/8" rod, unsure how best to label it up. Cannot take a BS951 label off a clamp as no way to fix it - large screw on rod clamp is too big.Wholesaler gave me a label with small fixing hole and a cable-tie - surely this is not good enough? How do you guys (properly) affix a label, and where do you get such labels from?

 

[Adam W]

If you use a cover it will have a label on it, and protect the connection.

 

[Stroppy]

Don't use one of the green boxes they sell with "safety electrical connection - do not remove" on, you will get told off!

 

[snowhead]

Cable tie label onto cable.

 

[trev]

The earth pits I buy have it etched into them, there's also a tag from a 951 clamp attached to the rod clamp its self.

 

[steve50]

why cant you use them

Don't use one of the green boxes they sell with "safety electrical connection - do not remove" on, you will get told off!

 

[Engineer54]

About to put in a 5/8" rod, unsure how best to label it up. Cannot take a BS951 label off a clamp as no way to fix it - large screw on rod clamp is too big.Wholesaler gave me a label with small fixing hole and a cable-tie - surely this is not good enough? How do you guys (properly) affix a label, and where do you get such labels from?

I hope that 5/8'' rod your intending to install is a 2.4m (10 footer), or two 1.2m coupled together for depth, otherwise you'll just be wasting your time!! Hope your not locating the rod within a metre of the house wall either!! lol!!

Either use a flush to ground concrete or heavy duty plastic earth pit, no need for a safety earth warning label then, both are clearly marked on the lids. By the way BS951 clamps are not suitable for connections to earth rods.

 

[Engineer54]

why cant you use them

Because they are the next best thing to being totally useless!! The same goes for those black adaptable box affairs that have been adapted as a make believe earth rod box!!

 

[Geordie Spark]

About to put in a 5/8" rod, unsure how best to label it up. Cannot take a BS951 label off a clamp as no way to fix it - large screw on rod clamp is too big.Wholesaler gave me a label with small fixing hole and a cable-tie - surely this is not good enough? How do you guys (properly) affix a label, and where do you get such labels from?

The label will be inscribed with the words "SAFETY ELECTRICAL EARTH - DO NOT REMOVE" and it refers to the CABLE.

Therefore, the "logical" place for the label to be fitted is on the CABLE and that is where I was taught to fit it.

 

[Engineer54]

The label will be inscribed with the words "SAFETY ELECTRICAL EARTH - DO NOT REMOVE" and it refers to the CABLE.

Therefore, the "logical" place for the label to be fitted is on the CABLE and that is where I was taught to fit it.

Fine for electrical earth connections that are readily accessible say in a house, but in an earth pit where a tool is required to remove the lid of the enclosure, they are not required.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Fine for electrical earth connections that are readily accessible say in a house, but in an earth pit where a tool is required to remove the lid of the enclosure, they are not required.

Agreed!!