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Before the Humber Bridge, we used to get regular attacks on the BT Submarine cables across the Humber. Apparently, local pykies used to spike the cables, thinking they were leccy, then when the contactors cut out, they used to saw the cable and a nick a section for the lead/copper !!!! Needless to say, a dangerous pastime :shock:
 
Pastime?

Was done around here just before christmas.

BT inspection cover removed and sombody ran off with a section of BT cable. :roll:
 
my brother was once asked to quote for a job in a local "fallout shelter" where thieves had broken in and cut several feet out of the mains cables and the generator cables..
needless to say the owner wanted the lights back on and it was cheaper to repair the generator cables than get the local board in to replace the mains cables..
 
The fools always seem to go for HV though - Small conductors compared to LV, and very often alu.

My boss used to work for the lecky board in London, not sure which one. They often had issues where they installed a new cable one day, and the following day it was gone.
 
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An item (probably a stage dimmer rack) previously for sale on Ebay


But, as this unit can draw up to 2,4 Kilowatts per chanel, and you cannot get that much out of a 13 Amp plug (because they all have fuses), I devised the mains plug which is also included. This little beauty takes advantage of tha fact that the ring main supplying the 13 Amp plug in the venue you are at, is nearly always fed from a 32 Amp trip. The cabling in the building can easily supply this load (safely) as it can on all socket ring mains. By conveniently forgetting to include a fuse in the plug head we can now draw much more than 13 Amps. Whilst I have to recommend that this is never done (of course) it doesnt half work well and allows you to have a decent lighing display in venues with just 13 Amp sockets !
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RF Lighting said:
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The man was an idiot.

Everyone knows you don't use matchsticks like that - they fall out. Rawlplugs are much better - poke the wire down the middle and out of one of the slits, and then jam them in the socket.
 
RF Lighting said:
An item (probably a stage dimmer rack) previously for sale on Ebay


But, as this unit can draw up to 2,4 Kilowatts per chanel, and you cannot get that much out of a 13 Amp plug (because they all have fuses), I devised the mains plug which is also included. This little beauty takes advantage of tha fact that the ring main supplying the 13 Amp plug in the venue you are at, is nearly always fed from a 32 Amp trip. The cabling in the building can easily supply this load (safely) as it can on all socket ring mains. By conveniently forgetting to include a fuse in the plug head we can now draw much more than 13 Amps. Whilst I have to recommend that this is never done (of course) it doesnt half work well and allows you to have a decent lighing display in venues with just 13 Amp sockets !
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I also heared of someone who had an adaptor cable with TWO 13A plugs wired to a 32A socket.

You would have thought that some dimmer manufactuer would have spotted this gap in the market and built dimmer units with a seperate inlet for each outlet so the load can be spread arround low rated sockets as required.
 

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