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rob121
Evening all,
Phoned edf a couple of days ago about a meter that was falling off the back board in an external enclosure. Anyway EDF put it down as an emergency, bloke came out today, said he would have to ring uk power to change the chipboard and service fuse head, then he would come back and connect the meter. Is it me or does this seem crazy that theres now 2 companies involved. Apparently uk power are a chinese owned company who brought part of EDF.
Anyway whilst your here just a quick question. This job has an exterior meter and currently someone has wired what looks like 16mm 3 core swa into the meter and earth terminal, then run that the other end of the building where the CU is located (armour has no glands either). Anyway was chatting to the edf bloke and said I would need to fit a small CU in the box to provide overload protection etc as at the moment it comes straight off 100A service fuse. He replied I would have to do it when he had left as he wouldnt be able to connect it as theyre not allowed to have any switch gear in the box. I can understand that the box is not particularly water tight but explained it would be appropriately rated but he said it didnt make any difference. Just wondered what your thoughts where?
Cheers
Rob
Phoned edf a couple of days ago about a meter that was falling off the back board in an external enclosure. Anyway EDF put it down as an emergency, bloke came out today, said he would have to ring uk power to change the chipboard and service fuse head, then he would come back and connect the meter. Is it me or does this seem crazy that theres now 2 companies involved. Apparently uk power are a chinese owned company who brought part of EDF.
Anyway whilst your here just a quick question. This job has an exterior meter and currently someone has wired what looks like 16mm 3 core swa into the meter and earth terminal, then run that the other end of the building where the CU is located (armour has no glands either). Anyway was chatting to the edf bloke and said I would need to fit a small CU in the box to provide overload protection etc as at the moment it comes straight off 100A service fuse. He replied I would have to do it when he had left as he wouldnt be able to connect it as theyre not allowed to have any switch gear in the box. I can understand that the box is not particularly water tight but explained it would be appropriately rated but he said it didnt make any difference. Just wondered what your thoughts where?
Cheers
Rob
