Update re. Looped electricity situation

[pmknowles]

Northern PowerGrid (owned by Warren Buffet)

 

[chowbenter]

When the DNO de-looped us from the neighbouring two houses they said it's the DNO's responcibility & free of charge, You just had to prove you had an electric car or proof of one on order.
This is how they spliced a feed off from the main underground cable running under the lawn to our house.

 

[pmknowles]

The problem is my cable is overhead from a pole. They can't run a new OH cable.

 

[Gomev]

The problem is my cable is overhead from a pole. They can't run a new OH cable.

Surely that's their problem, not yours.

 

[Hairyfool]

To go back a few posts the fuse carrier doesn't really need a voltage marked on it, it is essentially the same voltage either end. The label is probably indicating that the equipement is rated for 415v 3 phase supply installations max which if anything is as much about insulation safety as anything else.

In a previous house different houses in the cul-de-sac could lose power in a cut with others staying on. The overhead supply at the end was 3 phase with different houses on different phases.

One house even had all 3 phases although only one was in use. When his neighbour lost his power it was an undergound feed issue and the DNO ran a cable across the garden between the houses to get them back on as a temporary fix.