Earthing Arrangements Explained + Photo's

[Engineer54]

Non of your Chinese rubbish!

lol!! Ah, ...But for how long??

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Just shows you how long that service fuse has been in place. My parents house only had a 40A service fuse and a 40A meter for donkeys years. Then got updated out of the blue to 60A fuse and 100A meter. Later still, Mechanical meter replaced with digital meter and fuse/tails uprated to 80A/16mm....[/QUOTE]

and it held for all that time....


which begs me to ask what the point in this excercise was?

 

[Knobhead]

Non of your Chinese rubbish!

What happened to Brush Engineering?

I had the misfortune of installing one of their LV panels. Biggest pile of junk I’ve ever come across. So bad I got division engineering involved and we chucked all the outgoing switches away. Replaced them with System 4 gear.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

What happened to Brush Engineering?

I had the misfortune of installing one of their LV panels. Biggest pile of junk I’ve ever come across. So bad I got division engineering involved and we chucked all the outgoing switches away. Replaced them with System 4 gear.

hmm..

well heres a famous product out of Brush`s loughborough works:



and something from BR Derby....but with Brush electrical plant & gear:



each gave 30 years of good service...the only issues were with the Sulzer twin bank diesel engines they used

 

[Silly Sausage]

I've got a fantastic book, 'Diesel Traction. Manual for Enginemen', 1962, great book.

Also got one for 'Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen'. More of Geordie's era.

 

[Geordie Spark]

I've got a fantastic book, 'Diesel Traction. Manual for Enginemen', 1962, great book.

Also got one for 'Railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen'. More of Geordie's era.

I have that one and I have "2750 - Legend Of A Locomotive" which is a fictional story about an A3 Class Gresley Pacific named "Papyrus" that I've seen many times written by H.C. Webster. (I think I have some for diesel as well but let's not go there!)

I first stumbled upon it in the school library and was so impressed with it I wanted to nick it!

It's a very rare book and a couple of years ago the idea popped into my head that I would like to read it again but nobody had ever heard of it. Somehow, by fair means or foul, Tidyboiler managed to find a copy for me.

It's so well written with some great drawings that it's possible to learn to drive a Gresley Pacific class from it and that's how at the tender age of 18 I ended up driving this:

 

[Engineer54]

Just shows you how long that service fuse has been in place. My parents house only had a 40A service fuse and a 40A meter for donkeys years. Then got updated out of the blue to 60A fuse and 100A meter. Later still, Mechanical meter replaced with digital meter and fuse/tails uprated to 80A/16mm....

and it held for all that time....


which begs me to ask what the point in this excercise was?

No idea, no upgrades were ever asked for/requested. Not just my parants house, but the whole estate, street by street!! lol!! Talking about a period from 1952 through to 2005. It was around final year, they changed the meter for a digital one and upgraded the service fuse and the braided VIR 7/064 tails for 16mm....

 

[GLENNSPARK]

No idea, no upgrades were ever asked for/requested. Not just my parants house, but the whole estate, street by street!! lol!! Talking about a period from 1952 through to 2005. It was around final year, they changed the meter for a digital one and upgraded the service fuse and the braided VIR 7/064 tails for 16mm....

it would have been interesting to have clamped the tails at full demand back then...

and again recently...

compare the results......

 

[GLENNSPARK]

I have that one and I have "2750 - Legend Of A Locomotive" which is a fictional story about an A3 Class Gresley Pacific named "Papyrus" that I've seen many times written by H.C. Webster. (I think I have some for diesel as well but let's not go there!)

I first stumbled upon it in the school library and was so impressed with it I wanted to nick it!

It's a very rare book and a couple of years ago the idea popped into my head that I would like to read it again but nobody had ever heard of it. Somehow, by fair means or foul, Tidyboiler managed to find a copy for me.

It's so well written with some great drawings that it's possible to learn to drive a Gresley Pacific class from it and that's how at the tender age of 18 I ended up driving this:

theres six of these in existance:

Mallard....a static display in the national railway museum York

Bittern...in steam at southall railway centre

Union of south africa...in steam at thornton yard

Dominion of canada...a static display at the canadian railway museum

Dwight D eisenhower...a static display at national rail museum green bay wisconsin

Sir nigel gresley...in steam at north york moors railway

 

[Engineer54]

it would have been interesting to have clamped the tails at full demand back then...

and again recently...

compare the results......

Well i can tell you that while Mum & Dad where living there, hob cooking was always Gas, as was heating and hot water, eg shower!! Though i did install a power shower pump in the latter years... lol!! So it was never really a high usage property, especially after my sister and myself had left the house