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sbelec
Hi,
Thoughts please. The service supply has been moved, about 50m, and is now in a steel box with cut-out, meter and electrical supply company isolator (they always fit isolators in the NW). My distribution board is 20m away so have fitted a second box, albeit round a corner and less than 2m away, for a fused switched isolator as the supply company would neither fit a fused type or wire into one I fitted!
SWA from distribution comes across the wall through steel wall of box and is connected onto steel fused isolator, supply to the isolator likewise is terminated on the steel fused isolator passes through wall of steel box. Down to floor level, round corner and into the "supply"box.
Now here is my dilemma, the SWA is terminated onto the steel box and my tails then connect into the consumers side of the isolator. Obviously the tails, now out of the steel and divided into L-N-E are covered with insulation only and not "sleeved" and insulated.
On one hand this is fine the insulation is enclosed totally within the enclosure.
On the other hand the enclosure can be opened with a simple key rather than a tool, do I sleeve with heat shrink or other sleeve to recreate "sleeve" over insulation?
Now I can see many of the other questions why 3 core, swa as earth - matter of opinion and my preference. Why round a corner - because that was the way it went in, had I got my way 2 boxes would be side by side for short length of pipe between 2 and standard tails. Basically it is what it is and the job has been going on 6 months with the DNO trying, at one stage, to connect to a dead street supply!
Many thanks for your thoughts, but going this morning too start connecting.
Thoughts please. The service supply has been moved, about 50m, and is now in a steel box with cut-out, meter and electrical supply company isolator (they always fit isolators in the NW). My distribution board is 20m away so have fitted a second box, albeit round a corner and less than 2m away, for a fused switched isolator as the supply company would neither fit a fused type or wire into one I fitted!
SWA from distribution comes across the wall through steel wall of box and is connected onto steel fused isolator, supply to the isolator likewise is terminated on the steel fused isolator passes through wall of steel box. Down to floor level, round corner and into the "supply"box.
Now here is my dilemma, the SWA is terminated onto the steel box and my tails then connect into the consumers side of the isolator. Obviously the tails, now out of the steel and divided into L-N-E are covered with insulation only and not "sleeved" and insulated.
On one hand this is fine the insulation is enclosed totally within the enclosure.
On the other hand the enclosure can be opened with a simple key rather than a tool, do I sleeve with heat shrink or other sleeve to recreate "sleeve" over insulation?
Now I can see many of the other questions why 3 core, swa as earth - matter of opinion and my preference. Why round a corner - because that was the way it went in, had I got my way 2 boxes would be side by side for short length of pipe between 2 and standard tails. Basically it is what it is and the job has been going on 6 months with the DNO trying, at one stage, to connect to a dead street supply!
Many thanks for your thoughts, but going this morning too start connecting.
