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Advice Please - Mains cartridge fused Isolator switch or MCB and isolator Switch.
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I manage a residential mobile home park with homes that individually have mains supply TT coming to a meter box recessed into a breeze block shed. The tails then come from the meter into the shed and into an old style bakelite rewireable 40a fused isolator switch. There is then an outgoing 10mm SWA cable running from the isolator switch underground from the shed to the home and then into the consumer unit for the home (total run approx. 8 to 10 metres). Having had an EICR for one of the homes I have been adviced that these isolator switches will need to be replaced as the swa cable is not properly terminated (it is not glanded in to the isolator switch and the wire stranded sheathing is twisted together and connected to the earth block.) My question is can this isolator switch be replaced with an 18th edition 3 way metal enclosure with double pole isolator switch and 40a mcb or should it be replaced with a 60a (or 40a) cartridge fused double poled mains isolator switch. Additionally would it a be a good idea to put a 60a RCD into the shed and either use a five way enclosure (in place of 3 way enclosure) or a 2 way enclosure fed from the cartridge isolator switch. All the homes have a standard consumer unit containing either a 60a or 80a RCD and 3 to 5 suitable MCB's (32a, 16a, 6a).
Andy, it may be foolish to comment until you have full details of the installation. In the general case you are not wrong, but you could be very off beam.
I don't understand why the DNO wants 25mm tails to 60A fuses. This is very strange. Also, they may be referring to the Henly blocks or whatever where the tails split into several pieces to feed each of your isolators, the input from the meter will need 25mm tails to the block, although I would have expected them to have changed these pieces because they will have to re-visit to do it. Everything seems a little strange. Photos please Nick, easy to post here, just size to 1200 or less wide and push the little postcard above to select the picture files on your computer.
As an aside, I would like to see the EICR paperwork you have, both please if you could, as part of a research project into the quality of EICRs, davezawadi (at) yahoo.co.uk, address redacted if you wish.
Andy, it may be foolish to comment until you have full details of the installation. In the general case you are not wrong, but you could be very off beam.
I don't understand why the DNO wants 25mm tails to 60A fuses. This is very strange. Also, they may be referring to the Henly blocks or whatever where the tails split into several pieces to feed each of your isolators, the input from the meter will need 25mm tails to the block, although I would have expected them to have changed these pieces because they will have to re-visit to do it. Everything seems a little strange. Photos please Nick, easy to post here, just size to 1200 or less wide and push the little postcard above to select the picture files on your computer.
As an aside, I would like to see the EICR paperwork you have, both please if you could, as part of a research project into the quality of EICRs, davezawadi (at) yahoo.co.uk, address redacted if you wish.