removal of main cutout fuse!

[Guitarist]

Its an idiotic system
it should be compulsary for the suppliers to upgrade there equipment and provide a adequate means of isolation to allow improvements to be made such as fitting the CCU without breaking any laws or seals
Or allow the seals to be cut and new tails installed as long as the supplier is notified and temporary seals fitted upon completion as well as having to fit a DP isolator if the equipment looks safe to do so

I think we would all be in agreement mate. Just been reading an article in the last ECA magazine saying how they have been lobbying parliament to get something sorted, and that the Government is on-board with finding a solution. I think the key is for us all to write to our MP, as this is a matter of safety.

 

[DNS1]

UPDATE...

Contacted e-petitions website yesterday to ask why my petition hadn't been finalised.

They said that as it was quite complex it might involve more than one government department so they were taking time to check it properly and make sure everything was ok.

I'll keep everyone updated and hopefully post up the link on here in the next few days...

 

[RAD_22]

Signed :20:

Government ePetition calling for a change in the law regarding DNO fuses and safe isolation. Please add your signature: https://submissions.epetitions.direc...etitions/37408

 

[oldtimer]

We would not need this if the Electrical Safety Council had got the government to either get the DNOsto fit an isolation switch or get one fitted in the new smart meters but nope the government were lobbied by the meter and DNO companies stating there was no need to put this extra cost or burden on to business as it was no a safety issue reference Switched On issue 25.

I have signed this but I feel big business has more of a say plus I returned to a job this morning to fix a socket and I had fitted an isolator when I changed the CU now there was 16mm singles coming from the meter but since then the meter and mains were renewed and they fitted an isolator now you are asking what 2 isolators YEP and worse than that they kept the 16mm singles as this was on the consumer side in.

The customer did ask saying the electrician had left enough DI cable going to the CU but no.So this morning it took me 10 minutes to put the DI cable straight into their isolator thus removing the one I fitted and the single 16mm.

Sorry no pics left camera in the house

 

[Guitarist]

We would not need this if the Electrical Safety Council had got the government to either get the DNOsto fit an isolation switch or get one fitted in the new smart meters but nope the government were lobbied by the meter and DNO companies stating there was no need to put this extra cost or burden on to business as it was no a safety issue reference Switched On issue 25.

I have signed this but I feel big business has more of a say plus I returned to a job this morning to fix a socket and I had fitted an isolator when I changed the CU now there was 16mm singles coming from the meter but since then the meter and mains were renewed and they fitted an isolator now you are asking what 2 isolators YEP and worse than that they kept the 16mm singles as this was on the consumer side in.

The customer did ask saying the electrician had left enough DI cable going to the CU but no.So this morning it took me 10 minutes to put the DI cable straight into their isolator thus removing the one I fitted and the single 16mm.

Sorry no pics left camera in the house

Just shows the average intelligence of these guys....

 

[hermetic]

interesting point, when the old sangamo weston mechanical meter was removed at my house, it was replaced by a new digital meter WITH A BUILT IN ISOLATOR!, when it went faulty a couple of years later it was replaced by another digi meter, without an isolator, when I asked the guy, he just said, "we're not fitting those any more". It was the same make, just minus isolator. When the original digi meter was fitted, I asked the DNO man what the difference in price was, he laughed and told me the old black mechanical meters were about £70 each, whereas the new ones cost..........................."about £11"! So the "cost to much" excuse is a bit invalid then?

 

[oldtimer]

Yep the cost is a red herring but charging you anything from £80-£120 to fit one shows up on their bottom line

 

[Knobhead]

Any Sangamo time switch was expensive. Well made but you had to pay for that quality.

 

[trev]

Signed.

 

[snowhead]

Any Sangamo time switch was expensive. Well made but you had to pay for that quality.

I used to like the ones with mechanical solar correction as used in Phone boxes and probably other locations as well.