Doh! wrong cable size :/

[disinfo]

I'm hoping you mean Scotty power and not me !

Absolutely,

You should never have been left in this situation

 

[Estrella]

I remember you posting this a while back after they'd just finished. Terrible job!

Your'e right. It's taken me this long to pull my finger out and sort it

 

[Estrella]

I'm hoping you mean Scotty power and not me !

Absolutely,

You should never have been left in this situation

Cheers DIS. I know what I am doing is not within the 'rules', but lets be honest, how much worse could the job I make out of it be than the mess they left ?

 

[BS3036]

how much worse could the job I make out of it be than the mess they left ?

You wait till you find out how hard it is to bend that stuff neatly.

 

[Estrella]

how much worse could the job I make out of it be than the mess they left ?

You wait till you find out how hard it is to bend that stuff neatly.

Fair comment BS. I have bought and fitted some trunking that you may just be able to make out on the pic. Hopefully that will hide any dodgy routing. I have deliberately oversized the trunking hoping that it would give me more 'wiggle room'

 

[RF Lighting]

Pish.

25.0mm² is not difficult to work with

 

[plugwash]

Also i notice that you seem to have removed the cover from the output terminals of the isolator without turning it off first. In general this is not reccomeneded. Especially if you haven't opened the enclosure before or you know the wiring in there is badly done.

Not quite right there. I did indeed turn the power off and then removed the cover. I then touched the neutral tail and it promptly fell out I re secured it properly, and the cover will go back on when I have replaced the tails. Obviously I won't do this without turning of the power yet again.

You really shouldn't expose touchable live mains if you can possibly help it and you certainly shouldn't be leaving it exposed. All it takes is one slip to give someone an electric shock and shocks of the mains can be fatal.

BTW why was the meter board moved? did you reqest it to be removed? was thier some kind of fault they had to fix?

 

[Estrella]

You really shouldn't expose touchable live mains if you can possibly help it and you certainly shouldn't be leaving it exposed. All it takes is one slip to give someone an electric shock and shocks of the mains can be fatal.

totally understand your concern Plug. You can't tell from the pic but the isolator is 7ft up the wall , so not in danger of being touched. The first time I will be in that zone will be to kill the power.

BTW why was the meter board moved? did you reqest it to be removed? was thier some kind of fault they had to fix?

Basically the incoming power cable was a cloth braided jobbie that was loosely, and by loosely I mean adrift, from the outside wall. I requested a replacement as I was having the outside wall painted, which is how I ended up with a different incoming cable and moved meter board. The board was also on an internal wall that was being removed, so they shifted it onto that wall without thinking about tail length.

My fault really, I left them to it while I was at work

 

[BS3036]

Pish.

25.0mm² is not difficult to work with

Probably not if you're a pro, I've only done it once so far.

 

[333rocky333]

Is that 25X16 trunking,I do not think you will get two 25 and one 16 in that.

40X25 will give you plenty

 

[Estrella]

its M3 , about 40 x 18 approx. I offered it up , and it seemed OK