New CU - Before and after pics

[Deleted member 54734]

DNO Forgot to crimp seal the cutout

PMSL so they did

 

[plugwash]

It looks to me like the time clock is powered from before the isolator but is switching an output after it.

Is such a setup considered normal/acceptable?

 

[Deleted member 54734]

Jobs like that are about.
I suspect the DNO chap that went to that did it that way because DJM or his spark had supplied the the 2pole Isolator ready for him.

Just me guessing tho.

 

[DJM]

DNO did absolutely nothing except move the meter down 8 inches or so and fitted new long tails from meter to henley block to allow spark to position isolator where required. They then left to allow sparks to do his work. There was no change in the layout.

Sparks did his work and then the tails were connected to isolator (by magic).

 

[Deleted member 54734]

Maybe I'm working for the wrong DNO.

Do you think if I moved I could get easy jobs like that too?

 

[bernardgreen]

It looks to me like the time clock is powered from before the isolator but is switching an output after it.

Is such a setup considered normal/acceptable?

If it was after the isolator the time switch could be "adjusted" to provide Off Peak at time when it shouldn't be provided.

What would worry me is the tail to the time switch is small cross section and has no fuse for the time switch other than the main fuse in the cut out

 

[plugwash]

If it was after the isolator the time switch could be "adjusted" to provide Off Peak at time when it shouldn't be provided.

Indeed, I would have expected the whole time clock setup to be before any isolators with either no isolator for off peak, an isolator with enough poles for both to be switched seperately or two seperate isolators.

I don't know what the time clocks are like inside but it worries me that there may be some way for power to backfeed and make the install dangerous even when the isolator is off.