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wozzit99

Hi

Due to the long length of a distribution circuit I'm installing, the cable csa is 50mm sq.
The earthing arrangement at the origin is TT.
25mm tails at the service are to be connected to a 300ma 100amp time delayed rcd then into a 100amp s/fuse ( fuses rated at 80 amp )
From the s/fuse a 50mm sq 4 core cable is going to be ran to a out building some distance away which is to supply a 4 way 3 phase dis board.
The NICEIC advised me to install a separate TT earthing arrangement at the db end.
The problem is I have to terminate 50mm sq 4 core armoured cable into an rccb. I know I have to keep the armoured insulated from the db earthing system but how am I going to connect the tails?
Are there any rccb's which will take this cable size?
It would be a hell of a lot easier to export the origin TT that way I could terminate to a isolator at the db end.

Cheers
 
Hi Engineer 54

The load is a 50kw micro generator 70amps/ phase max load, the cable is this size to keep the vault drop within the less than 1% range
There will be four inverters supplied from the sub db.


As for the Nic ,the guy did not give a clear reason about seperating the earths just said do it.
 
Hi Engineer 54

The load is a 50kw micro generator 70amps/ phase max load, the cable is this size to keep the vault drop within the less than 1% range
There will be four inverters supplied from the sub db.


As for the Nic ,the guy did not give a clear reason about seperating the earths just said do it.

That's because there isn't a clear reason!! Different if the source supply was PME, but it isn't so don't try separating the TT system, you'll be defeating the very nature of a TT system...
 
Think what PME stands for exactly...

Protective Multiple Earthing , i know, and yes that is exactly my point!! But by just stating PME on this thread it will confuse the young or inexperienced into thinking along the lines of PME/TNC-S supplies, but that was not really what you (or i) were talking about is it??...lol!!!
 
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