3 phase or one pase supply

[westie101]

The Red & Black singles go into the trunking disappearing towards the left of the last photo that appears to be a few inches above the disused Wylex unit shown. There could/should be a meter at the other end of that.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Indeed there could.

But then I wrote what I did after asking Jimmy where the R/B cables went and he posted these photos:

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which as it turns out don't show anything to do with where they go.


Some people don't make it easy to help them.

 

[Sticklebricks]

The red and black cables feed into the big black tube that is shown in the last two photos.

One of the fuse boxes (CUs?) is marked with my flat number and a quick experiment confirmed thta it does.

Thank you for your help, I will have to get on to my landlord to get them fit proper meters. Proberly going to be a bit of a nightmare!


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[ban-all-sheds]

The red and black cables feed into the big black tube that is shown in the last two photos.

Surely what we are seeing is armoured cable - the red & black conductors are probably its cores.

But whatever - no protection apart from the service fuse, and no meter. OK - it's not being used right now for theft of electricity, but it could be.

Your landlord will probably have some questions to answer....

One of the fuse boxes (CUs?) is marked with my flat number and a quick experiment confirmed thta it does.

Turn yours off at the main switch, and observe that "your" meter doesn't stop.

Been paying bills on the basis of its readings for long?