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Thanks for your help everyone. On phone at minute so will respond properly when i get on a computer.
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no if another metal is used for bonding then it needs to offer at least equivilant conductance. The carbon content of steel varies so you have to use the guidance in GN8 which I believe is in the region of 8.5. So if 10mm copper is deemed adequate then the steel armour would need to have a cross sectional area of at least 85mm. It would be better to use 5core SWA or run in a seperate bonding conductor. Remember if the seperate bonding conductor is to be buried you would have to use 16mm.According to this table:
http://www.askthetrades.co.uk/hosted_images/Armour CSA.pdf
6mm 4-core has a copper equiv. CSA of 16.8mm so my thoughts are I can take a 10mm cable straight from the feed terminated in the isolator and bolt it on to the metal frame, and use the armour as my bonding return to the MET?
They are for earthing not bonding.So what are the copper equivalent columns in that link referring to then? Reason we've used 4-core is because it's what the factory owner had lying around and he's on a cost saving exercise. Will have to have a look at pulling in a separate conductor.
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