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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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  • Hi Dave,

    The reason I’m asking this, is because I’m doing an options report from the client.

    4 Options:

    850M of private cabling

    20KVA Genset 

    200m overhead line (private)

    2Km of HV DNO cabling.

    im obviously leaning towards the Genset, and when the sites more developed take it from a more local DNO supply, but I wanted to make sure option 1 was valid.

    cheers 

     

     

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  • Hi Dave,

    The reason I’m asking this, is because I’m doing an options report from the client.

    4 Options:

    850M of private cabling

    20KVA Genset 

    200m overhead line (private)

    2Km of HV DNO cabling.

    im obviously leaning towards the Genset, and when the sites more developed take it from a more local DNO supply, but I wanted to make sure option 1 was valid.

    cheers 

     

     

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