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Very long run of LV Cabling

Hi all,

 

im looking at a project where the landlords LV cut out is approx 850 metres from the proposed tenants installation. The earthing arrangement is TT and protected by a time delayed 300ma RCD and a 63A MCCB.

 

The landlords sub main is going to be 2 x 4C 95mm2 in parallel buried in the ground to supply 20KVA worth of power. This achieved a volt drop of 1.6% which leaves 1.9% VD for lighting. From my Amtech calcs I also get about 1ka at the load Dis board (Phase fault)

 

im not worried about Earth Loop because of the RCD, but i am thinking about the adibatic of the phase conductors. If the tenant puts a long run of cabling in, this will comply from a Zs perspective, but could there be issues with the line under a phase to neutral /phase to phase fault as the cable could slowly cook under a lowish load without tripping the breaker. Is this a valid concern? Amtech isn’t throwing up any faults, but just wanted your thoughts.

 

thanks in advance

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  • This does not sound like a very economic solution to this supply. You need 20 kVA and you are going to spend how much on this cable? I am going to suggest that you will pay around £70 / m for around 2km of cable, that's £140, 000. Plus the cost of burying it, perhaps another £5-20k, dependant on the degree of reinstatement. You will get a new DNO supply for a lot less than that, with a local transformer, and pretty much as much power as you want. 

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  • This does not sound like a very economic solution to this supply. You need 20 kVA and you are going to spend how much on this cable? I am going to suggest that you will pay around £70 / m for around 2km of cable, that's £140, 000. Plus the cost of burying it, perhaps another £5-20k, dependant on the degree of reinstatement. You will get a new DNO supply for a lot less than that, with a local transformer, and pretty much as much power as you want. 

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