External lighting columns - earthing conductor (reg 714.411.203)

Good afternoon

Sorry for the back to back question about external lighting

Based on regulation 714.411.203:

'Where street furniture is connected directly to a distributor's PME network, the earthing conductor and any main protective bonding conductors to any extraneous-conductive parts shall have a minimum copper equivalent CSA of 6mm2 for PEN conductors of the supply with copper equivalent CSA up to 10mm2. For larger sized neutral conductors, the main bonding shall comply with Table 54.8.'

If I have lighting columns at the back of a building and I am feeding them from inside the building, and the building system is a PME system, does this apply?

Its wording confuses me really because it says about connection directly to a DNO PME network....

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  • Well, things like bus-stops and traffic lights may have an un-metered connection, and be billed on calculated consumption. This is likely to be fused at 10A or less in the cut-out, and the incoming supply cable may well be less than 10mm2

    The more common case for lights around a building is an outside light that us one of many final circuits within the building, perhaps on its own CU but in practice still part of a larger installation, with a main fuse and supply cable sized to match the 100A supply or whatever so 25 or 35mm2 incomer - with potential for proportionally higher diverted neutral currents.

    Mike

  • Correct

    I am doing buildings so this is exactly the case

    The lighting columns are final circuits and to me really the metal columns is no different than a cooker's metal cover.

    Looks to me more like an exposed conductive part.

    So am i right to understand that this regulation does not really apply in this case?

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  • Correct

    I am doing buildings so this is exactly the case

    The lighting columns are final circuits and to me really the metal columns is no different than a cooker's metal cover.

    Looks to me more like an exposed conductive part.

    So am i right to understand that this regulation does not really apply in this case?

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