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Got a call from one of my customers today who is having a car charging point fitted at home from BG in conjunction with the car suppliers all free of charge, he said they have issues with the existing set up and refuse to fit it so i trundled along and found Main Earth was 6mm to which i said it should really stop them fitting it but after a chat they said they can but with a note on the installation cert' --- ok fair enough...
Now it get good , the supply is PME (TNCS) so they said they cant fit the socket charging point anywhere near earthed metal and for them to fit their charge point i had to remove the metal light fittings around the front, they also put the gas pipe riser on the outside of the garage in plastic trunking ...very aesthetic on stone work and they also created the outlet into a TT by sinking a Rod in.
They told me that they cant have any external metalwork earthed from the mains within 10m of the outlet as the risk of shock if the PME N/E was lost and i assume they were looking at it as outside the equipotential zone hence the TT set-up.
Ps.. the rod was sunk 600mm from the house wall, so not exactly at the end of the garden.
So in effect an external charge port which it basically is a lead and trailer socket has had to be done with its own TT earth set-up and any earthed metal that can be touched at the same time as the car has to be removed or insulated fully..... I understand they have their hands tied behind their back as they have been instructed so and they also expressed a change in regulation to avoid this issue later in the year... but i find it OTT that my customer has had to have all his metal OS lighting remove so he can charge his car!
Now it get good , the supply is PME (TNCS) so they said they cant fit the socket charging point anywhere near earthed metal and for them to fit their charge point i had to remove the metal light fittings around the front, they also put the gas pipe riser on the outside of the garage in plastic trunking ...very aesthetic on stone work and they also created the outlet into a TT by sinking a Rod in.
They told me that they cant have any external metalwork earthed from the mains within 10m of the outlet as the risk of shock if the PME N/E was lost and i assume they were looking at it as outside the equipotential zone hence the TT set-up.
Ps.. the rod was sunk 600mm from the house wall, so not exactly at the end of the garden.
So in effect an external charge port which it basically is a lead and trailer socket has had to be done with its own TT earth set-up and any earthed metal that can be touched at the same time as the car has to be removed or insulated fully..... I understand they have their hands tied behind their back as they have been instructed so and they also expressed a change in regulation to avoid this issue later in the year... but i find it OTT that my customer has had to have all his metal OS lighting remove so he can charge his car!
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