Abandoned Distribution Cabinet with Wylex NN board in it.

[kai]

Abandoned Distribution Cabinet with Wylex NN board in it.

ABANDONED_ELECTRICAL_DISTRIBUTION_UNIT

• kai
• 28 Feb 2016

abandoned unit

This cabinet appears to be abandoned, it has an unusual Wylex board in it, comprising a 100amp mainswith, feeding an RCD, and ONE breaker, probably to a market stall supply or something.
The seals are missing on the main service fuse holder, and the incoming supply feeder is smaller than the outgoing cable from the NN board!

 

[AndyPRK]

where there is a wylex you will sniff it out lol


I found this

 

[Echo the husky]

The supply cable looks small because it is a concentric cable, the other is much thicker as it is armoured.

 

[kai]

What was it feeding? - Was it street lighting?

 

[Echo the husky]

Did you see if the cabinet light was working?

 

[AndyPRK]

Didn't touch it.

Close by were traffic lights camera telephone box.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Thee's a handy socket to run your shed from, Andy!

 

[AndyPRK]

Yes, it's not that far from my garage.

 

[Spark123]

Abandoned Distribution Cabinet with Wylex NN board in it.

Did you report it to the local council?

 

[kai]

I forgot to note down the location this time.
A similar situation happened in Central London over ten years ago, I rang EDF energy networks emergency number, and the engineering team came round to formally disconnect it safely that day!

 

[securespark]

That's a REALLY strange way of terminating SWA!!

 

[AndyPRK]

Oh the last picture you mean

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Can't see it very well - is it not just a gland on a 90° bracket?

 

[plugwash]

the incoming supply feeder is smaller than the outgoing cable from the NN board!

Afaict this is not uncommon for two reasons.

Firstly customer side wiring outdoors tends to be SWA, often with a seperate full-sized earth core. Supplier side wiring tends to be either concentric cable with a combined neutral and earth or split-con with an earth smaller than the netral. This means that for a given CSA customer-side cable tends to be larger than supplier side cable.

Secondly the volt-drop budget for customer side distribution wiring is often fairly small leading to cables with larger CSA.

 

[JohnW2]

Can't see it very well - is it not just a gland on a 90° bracket?

That is, indeed, what it appears to look like!

Kind Regards, John