well..i`v seen some crap of late but.....

[GLENNSPARK]

evening boys...

heres some pics of someones idea of a temporary supply at a site we went to look at today:



thats a 1.5 flat twin coming straight out of the head....the bullit had gone....replaced with....yep, you guessed it a bit of 6mm

here, take a closer peek...



heres the twin going out of the cutout area



and its off around the grounds...





a `joint` in the garage...



and here`s my solution to the issue...not perfect but...



temp supply with 25A RCD...i used some 2.5 3 core hi-tuff from the cutout and replaced the bullit with a 60A...the hi-tuff then feeds a single trailing socket...which then feeds the temp supply box via 13A BS1363 plugtop.....
the commando feeds the socket outlets (3 off) which have been placed at the bottom of the stairs of each dwelling....the existing wasn`t even earthed...it is now.....rod with a Zs of .97 at the furthest point...RCD times good...







there were various trades on site using a variety of class 1 & class 2 equipment oblivious to the potential dangers here....
the owner seemed surprised when i tugged this little lot claiming `well, its worked fine so far`...
getting to be a standard response just lately....:frown:

 

[oldtimer]

And no brains to put the rcd at the start of the circuit as for 110v think we can agree these days are gone except for the big sites

 

[GLENNSPARK]

240volt power tools = DIY 110volt power tools = Professional tradesman IMO

well all my stuff is 110V..
but some of the other guys on site were using 230V.....
i reckon its because they do a lot of work in domestic situations...
but I use 110V myself...

 

[Clive P]

Hi,

When I was contracting and saw any 240v gear on a building site I used to cut the plugtops off. This is back in the days before RCD's, when cables were wrapped around scaffold tubes etc. I had to work with 110v, I didn't see why I should of been at risk due to their incompetence.

Regards.

 

[stuartcourt]

must say all mine 110 but dont see problem if RCD backed up

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Wow that is some shoddy work, surely no electrician in the land would do something like that and if thay had that's scary! Is that just clotheslined across to the garage as well? Would be interesting to see how many amps it was pulling with a few tools going off it to?

well...theres actually 2 ...one going to the garage...then one comes back from a 2 gang socket in that garage and up the scaffold at the back of the property to feed points on 1st and 2nd lift....

 

[SensesFailYou]

I hope they didnt pay the guy to do this! Id be embarrassed and would be having many sleepless nights knowing i had done that! And waiting for the knock on the door or sky news to be reporting a serious accident

 

[stuartcourt]

Hi,

When I was contracting and saw any 240v gear on a building site I used to cut the plugtops off. This is back in the days before RCD's, when cables were wrapped around scaffold tubes etc. I had to work with 110v, I didn't see why I should of been at risk due to their incompetence.

Regards.

dont know what brickies and ground workers are like up your way but would not fancy cutting the leads down here

 

[stuartcourt]

I hope they didnt pay the guy to do this! Id be embarrassed and would be having many sleepless nights knowing i had done that! And waiting for the knock on the door or sky news to be reporting a serious accident

could be wrong but guessing done by builder

 

[ChrisElectrical88]

well...theres actually 2 ...one going to the garage...then one comes back from a 2 gang socket in that garage and up the scaffold at the back of the property to feed points on 1st and 2nd lift....

Nice! All in 1.5? Get it in to professional electrician, the muppets there should be able to come up with some terrible caption for it.

 

[Outspoken]

Because this is the real world where most people dont own 110v tools!! LOL

Well then then real world has changed in the last few years then because everyone had 110V tools in my day not those Mickey Mouse DIY Kitchen fitter bodger tools from the flipping market...

 

[Edd]

Well then then real world has changed in the last few years then because everyone had 110V tools in my day not those Mickey Mouse DIY Kitchen fitter bodger tools from the flipping market...

Sadly you are so right

 

[KAS1]

I always hated the "go get the transformer off the van boy" saying, but at least we were safe and not relying on an RCD

 

[MDJ]

Good Job your in there Glenn to sort it out, at least a decent spark is sorting it, I have seen similar myself M8 before, dangerous is an understatement really.

 

[Geordie Spark]

what we`v done edd is give them some points on an RCD....they can then step it down as necessary.....
all i did here was get it into some semblance of order....as that was just hidious....

Your trouble is you're just too fussy !!!

 

[Adam W]

Battery tools are the future.