Tell me what you think about these photos...

[securespark]

As I've been away, I have only just got round to posting these. I deliberately want to tell you nothing, and see what you deduce from the photos.

All I will say is that the first photo is of the outside meter cabinet and the second is inside the same property.

Tell me what you think!

 

[Steve]

Two service fuses?

Given concentric has been used, with identical joints etc, I'd say this was a DNO job. Has the meter been moved outside at sometime in the past? (I wont say recently because that meter is quite old) I'm also going to be bold and say its got a TT earth!

 

[RF Lighting]

It appears to be a TT supply.

The cable on the outgoing side of the meter looks to be a straight concentric cable, presumably installed by the DNO

There may be no discrimination between the two cutouts.

The Henly block cover is a bit broken, but nothing looks immediatly unsafe.

 

[Spark123]

Maybe it is just the way I am looking at the concentric termination at the red cutout, is the phase and neutral reversed?

 

[RF Lighting]

When do we get the answer?

I'm so impatient.......

 

[dannyboi2003]

Have the incoming and outgoing cables in the cabinet outside been wired the wrong way round resulting in the meter going backwards?

Tails from the cutout to the henly block look undersized but could just be single insulated, hard to tell really.

As RF said, cant see anything totally obvious.

Is there a prize for whoever guesses right or at least has the closest answer

All the best
Dan

 

[RF Lighting]

No seals on the meter or cutouts.

Is that it??

Huh huh?

 

[Steve]

Whats with stripping back the outer insulation, when its the same colour as the inner insulation? Totally unnessecary, IMO.

 

[securespark]

Sorry to frustrate you guys!

It is indeed overhead TT. AFAICT, there is no rod, or S type RCD's on the two CU's, not that you can tell from the piccys.

It's just strange. I've never seen two cut-outs before. The run between the first cutout & the second has to be at least 15m & the outgoing supply from the meter is not fused down.

I'm going to e-mail them to the ENA for comment.

 

[plugwash]

assuming you are doing the PIR i'd say mark the single insulated neutral in the cable from the meter as a code 4 (its not compliant with BS7671 but in that situation its hardly dangerous either)

presumablly given that the cable is as big as the incoming cable its big enough for the first service fuse to protect it.

 

[Adam_151]

Assuming that red fuse carrier (that may just have a link in) is DNO property, then I'm not sure you can give the cable a code, because its firmly on the DNOs side and is out of the scope of BS7671

 

[plugwash]

i thought the comsumers resposibility started at the meter output.

 

[Tim 77]

They're very nice but I find your photos of trees a little more relaxing............ http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=88808........

 

[bernardgreen]

Was the meter moved out of the property for some reason.

May be so it could be read from outside.

Or maybe to lock it away from the customer to prevent it being bypassed.

 

[Steve]

Was the meter moved out of the property for some reason.

May be so it could be read from outside.

Reminds me of a customer we had the other day. He went out to purchase a £5 electric token from our shop. When he returned home, the meter had been changed for a Talexus key meter

I know about this because his supplier then told him to bring the electric token back to our shop for a refund. Which is impossible for us to process. Told him to go and shout at his supplier loudly.