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Some thing I have not really come accross before but I have a Client looking at a renovation of an old Property. For various reasons including Western Power the Clients PME supply may be located in a Garage. However the House will be about 20 metres away from the Garage and the main consumer unit will be located in the house. I am assuming I would connect the Consumer unit as a TT to the garage with an earth rod located at the consumer unit at the house. There are loads of of awkward little things at this job and I dont know why the supply and consumer nit are worrying me
 
extraneous conductive parts like the structural steel? and the fact some dno,s wont let you?
agreed about the too expensive to run a bond tho.

I can't say for all DNO's but i have a good friend in one DNO company who is an area manager coming up to retirement. According to him, apart from petrol stations Caravans sites and a few other unrelated areas they are not really interested. As it happens, he bought some land some years ago and built what is a steel framed brick and block infill house. And yep, he's on a PME supply, cad-welded bonding to MET.

Problem with PME supplies, for the average electrician, is there are just too many myths flying around out there, that confusion seems to rule!!!
 
I can't say for all DNO's but i have a good friend in one DNO company who is an area manager coming up to retirement. According to him, apart from petrol stations Caravans sites and a few other unrelated areas they are not really interested. As it happens, he bought some land some years ago and built what is a steel framed brick and block infill house. And yep, he's on a PME supply, cad-welded bonding to MET.

Problem with PME supplies, for the average electrician, is there are just too many myths flying around out there, that confusion seems to rule!!!

ok that ill agree to.
 
Having a debate with another spark.

Same situation is that the customer wants there CU fitting in the garage and moving from under the stairs, prob 15m from the intake.. I suggested running SWA from switch fuse under stairs to new CU position, my mate can't see why I can't run 25mm tail set to new CU, I said if you did you would need to RCD the tails, and he said yeah stick 100ma on it..
 
Hello, i know this is old now but for others looking you would need to have a distributors switch after the main meter (where you read the meter) then you would have to have a 80ma fuse then meter tails to your new consumer unit.... location! you would only need to convert to TT system if the board in the garage was seperate to main consumer unit... Although if you dont have the ability to find the information in the regs then maybe you should think of consulting a qualified person! because Building Control would have to notified and they will not like it!!!
 
Hello, i know this is old now but for others looking you would need to have a distributors switch after the main meter (where you read the meter) then you would have to have a 80ma fuse then meter tails to your new consumer unit.... location! you would only need to convert to TT system if the board in the garage was seperate to main consumer unit... Although if you dont have the ability to find the information in the regs then maybe you should think of consulting a qualified person! because Building Control would have to notified and they will not like it!!!

Here we go again TT this, TT that, ....when are these people going to take the time and learn about the industry they are in??
 
I don’t think he’s quite got where the service head is or the CU. Typical 6 week wonder, (2 weeks in to his course)!

Still want to know how to run a supply off an 80ma fuse though. There’s a fortune to be made there!
 
Are you referring to me? and not that I have to explain myself but I have been a director of an electrical contracting firm which over the last 5 years has turned over 2mil a year. So thank you for your insight but I dont need it.
 

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