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Can you post a pic of the incoming supply? Just interested in how they handle the service heads and the metering for a split-phase arrangement.

Oh, okay but it'll be at least the weekend. This week is leaving at 6, home at 8, food and bot wine then bed so far. Turning the lamp out now... And theres none of the old head unfortunately - all happened too fast.

Lol - well quite. The smell of slowly cooking bakelite was quite nostalgic.

That jubilee clip is dreadful! Unfortunately most customers wouldn't know what an earth connection was, let alone how it should be engineered. The outlook isn't all bad though. My old Siemens service head gave up the ghost and started smoking on new years eve, so a call to Western Power, and...

Oh là là! :shock:

Interesting - maybe its a regional thing. Certainly, down here in the WPD area (old South Wales Electric), they only fuse to 80A, and balk most definitely at the idea of a 100A supply - according to company policy they will not fit 100A as they reckon the cutouts (modern ones that is) can't...

Enfield then? :wink:

Looking at the age of the installation I'd be inclined to say 16/10. You didn't generally see 25 used domestically until relatively recently.

But you do see my point - unshuttered sockets have been a bete noir of BS7671 for years. I do agree with you though - lampholders are a curious blind spot in the regs, being really quite dangerous from one point of view (especially with table lamps etc) and from the other, merely an accepted...

The main problem I can see in terms of 'reasonable provision for safety' is not so much the lack of earth but that (and I'm making an assumption here based on the fact the OP said they were 'old bakelite') they most probably lack safety shutters. I don't recall ever seeing any 2 pin BS546 that...

If the calibration stickers on those Sangamo timers are anything to go by, that installation has been there since 1975. The solid green main earths would suggest its certainly pre 1978. I can't quite make out whats going on with that black rubber looking cable to the right of the picture. It...

Stranded cpc, which suggests 10mm.

God you have my sympathy - EDF sound awful! Are they always this bad? If it was Western Power, they'd be out right away to sort it purely on safety grounds, regardless of who the billing company was.

Hah, I clocked that too - the six gang Logic Plus. However, I think the double just under it and to the left was the 1980-90s version of first generation MK Logic metalclad (after they ditched the separate plastic inserts and made it all one unit around the three pin holes). Sad, me?? 8)

The yellow core of that SWA isn't connected to the PME terminal, doesn't look like the armour is either. (I'm assuming its PME - may be an assumption too far!)

My instinctive reply is to say that its that particular ring circuit which is causing the problem, not the TV set. It sounds to me as if there is already earth leakage on that circuit which is not quite enough to trip the RCD on its own, but which is tipped over the 30mA threshold (or...

White I think

Its a mishmash of quite dangerous advice, firstly from a British perspective (I wouldn't really want my hand near a 30a BS3036 when the supply was restored onto a possible dead short or, at the very least I'd want some warning of the effects of how it operates in the event of a fault, especially...

[/url] TLC do seem to be keeping this going, so hopefully common sense is prevailing, and people are maintaining demand for the stuff by still sleeving black switched lives in red. To sleeve it with brown in that situation just seems to be going against logic (even though we have harmonised...

Yes, the blue on the Wylex is particularly vivid :wink: Never sure whether to bundle all those functional earths into a single terminal or assign them to the individual circuit earths. My fingers are always itching for the cable ties, if only to make things a bit tidier!