when i waved my wand

[VoltzElectrical]

Before and after...

i waved my magic wand!

 

[Silly Sausage]

Hope you sorted the cabinet seal?!

 

[ayjay]

thats a super job voltz, well done

 

[VoltzElectrical]

thats a super job voltz, well done

Cheers mate, the tricky part was digging all the pitch out of the service head (live) to get the main fuse back in, that took me 15 minutes to remove, then clean up the contacts with a file, fit a new fuse and lubricate with Prysmian Electrical Compound. Thank goodness for electrical gloves and insulated tools!

 

[GLENNSPARK]

looks more like it...

 

[VoltzElectrical]

Hope you sorted the cabinet seal?!

Seal? This cabinet is God know how many years old, and NOT my responsibility. Yes, I would love it ALL to be brand new, and preferably all the lead cables to be replaced too, but I work with what I've got and that's the best I could do with my wand at the time.

xx

 

[Silly Sausage]

Just thinking, it'd be shame for that good work getting trashed.
You need your mind wand to wave at them...'Money is no object'

 

[VoltzElectrical]

This is Local Authority, AKA 'Council' work. 'Money' is a swear word!

I do the best I can within the boundaries that I work within.

I just thought you'd all like to see a little of what I do, out of common interest. If you look, you'll see these funny little 'boxes' that we call feeder pillars dotted all around the street lighting system. Sometimes you'll find what I found, Sometime you'll find what I left behind!

xx

 

[Guest55]

no MET ?
;-)

 

[VoltzElectrical]

no MET ?
;-)

What you can't see Biff is all the lead sheaths are linked together with large stranded unsheathed cable that goes to a large stud on the panel some 10 inches below ground level. Bitch to get to. That Aluminium outgoing cable is connected to that, and so is the earth to the KMF. The lead sheaths themselves are earthed by the DNO.

Hope that clears thing up for you my Dear.

x

 

[kingeri]

Reminds me of the cabinets my local council uses for their pay & display parking meters, a lot of them are rotten old boxes with no seal at all, they don't seem to care. I'm sure they'd care if the power went down to the machines and they could no longer fleece the motorist!

 

[keniff]

What do these feed then? Smaller cabinets to distribute to lights?

 

[MDJ]

Nice Job fella, very professional :clap:

 

[telectrix]

just 1 little niggle, that gn/y middle left of the pic could do with dressing a bit neater.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

just 1 little niggle, that gn/y middle left of the pic could do with dressing a bit neater.

i noticed that in the photo too. Might do it next time I'm out there. @Keniff, each outgoing cable goes directly to a series of streetlighting columns. It's a three core cable with two lines and a neutral. Every other column is terminated on one of the two lines. The idea is if one core goes down, then every other column will be on.