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Flexible 'tails'

grahamro

I was working on a job the other day where an e.on man was fitting a smart meter.
In converstion he told me that e.on were taking out any flexible tails they found fitted between the cut out, meter and any isolator installed.
From the meter or isolator, the customers 'tails' if flexible would of course be left installed.
Seeing as how I'm trying to save more wear and tear on my digits which are now suffering badly after years of bending 25 & 35mm2 'tails' I'll keep using flexible 'tails' untiil I'm told oficially a reason not to.
Apparently this doesn't apply to various other service providers.

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  • I wonder if Eon are worried about a stray whisker short circuit problem, either real or imagined.

    Certainly in other parts of the world such cables do get used in all sorts of terminals with no significant issues at all when competently installed.  For cage clamp terminals and things that don't appreciate the tail wagging the dog, its actually better.


    Equally a well ventilated 16mm cable works on a 100A fuse as well, with no issues, but it does not stop folk in the UK  insisting on changing to 25mm, then finding it a tight fit ;-) We are not always in step with the rest...

    It may be as simple as 'not what our instructions said' and very little thought beyond that.

    Mike.

  • in reply to mapj1

    1 strand out of 19 hardly counts as a whisker in my world. I did ask the e.on chappy what was the reason given for the removal but he didn't know only that they'd been instructed to do so.

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  • in reply to mapj1

    1 strand out of 19 hardly counts as a whisker in my world. I did ask the e.on chappy what was the reason given for the removal but he didn't know only that they'd been instructed to do so.

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  • in reply to grahamro

    1 strand out of 19 hardly counts as a whisker in my world. 

    Agree, its pretty noticeable in this cable type in my world too, but maybe the risk assessors are thinking of the problems you sometimes get with stranded cables in smaller sizes, and imagining that it scales, when really it does not.

    M.

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