Recent content by weetee1

Ill get someone to take a look. Thanks sparky

Hi Spark, Thanks again. Trouble on the camera front. Work at sea as an engineer, and dropped it "over the wall", so no pics possible at the moment. Basically, the live and neutral enter the house from overhead cables with the earth leaving through the wall and clamped to an earth rod in...

hi sparky, thanks for all so far. No external rcd. So I'll look into obtaining a time delay 30 ma rcd. This will meet the regs? or do I need to have the c.u. changed?

the c.u. was here when i moved in. its an mk split load affair. only lights up stairs and downstairs on two 6 amp mcbs on non rcd side. upstairs and downstairs ringmaind on the rcd side on thier own 32 amp breakers. Lots of spare ways. Gas cooker and gas hot water. All in all low...

thanks for that jay. Yes, I am using SWA. It is 3 core, so as you suggest I can use the armour and the third core. Should I connect these at both ends? if I am using earth rods at the out building? I have ordered a loop impedence tester on line and am expecting it soon. Regards, T

Hi all. I have an out building I am about to take power to from the spare 40 amp non rcd protected breaker in the house consumer unit. THe earthing system is TT. The shed is 40 metres away from the house and I have got my hands on some 16 sq mm 3 core swa cable and a consumer unit and rcd...