Well it was a farm, a chicken farm to be precise.
The current owners grandfather put the old stuff in over many years. The supply comes into an old barn and feeds the battery hen sheds a silo and a sub-main to the house.
Post a small electrical fire it was decided to remove all supplies to the old farming outbuildings (farm no longer operational) but keep the house connected & change the old cu, with the scope to put power back into the barns at a later date if required.
The owner tried to make it a safer installation post fire by fitting a 30mA RCD on the meter tails (bottom of picture) & again another 30mA at the house cu on the 16mm² T&E tails, all done with the aid of on line help from youtube and forums :facepalm: apparently they had regular trips from the house up the road to the barn in the dark on rain filled nights to fumble about resetting the 30mA rcd at the meter.
So any issues here ? :slap . Notice the blue fertilizer bag IP rated to keep the rain off (the roof has now been fixed)
Flames were from this and engulfed the meter above.
The switch fuse for the house & silo. House is the T&E & no I didn't remove the fuses, only opened to proove dead & show the apprentice what asbestos flash pads were & to advise not to disturb. after the photo cables were sheared off outside the case, the bill casing was removed from wall closed sealed with tape, placed in a sealed clear plastic bag with warning asbestos written on it all ready for disposal.
New switch fuse and larger enclosure for 100mA S type rcd and any future circuits the owner might like to install for the barns or paddock he is planning on building.
Old cu in the house & until the owner a few months ago put the rcd it the only way to isolate the board was back at the barn. No pics of the front cover but where the main switch/rcd would have been was a dirty big hole that had been there for as long as the customer could remember......he thought it was how it was supposed to be.
New board going in
The current owners grandfather put the old stuff in over many years. The supply comes into an old barn and feeds the battery hen sheds a silo and a sub-main to the house.
Post a small electrical fire it was decided to remove all supplies to the old farming outbuildings (farm no longer operational) but keep the house connected & change the old cu, with the scope to put power back into the barns at a later date if required.
The owner tried to make it a safer installation post fire by fitting a 30mA RCD on the meter tails (bottom of picture) & again another 30mA at the house cu on the 16mm² T&E tails, all done with the aid of on line help from youtube and forums :facepalm: apparently they had regular trips from the house up the road to the barn in the dark on rain filled nights to fumble about resetting the 30mA rcd at the meter.
So any issues here ? :slap . Notice the blue fertilizer bag IP rated to keep the rain off (the roof has now been fixed)
Flames were from this and engulfed the meter above.
The switch fuse for the house & silo. House is the T&E & no I didn't remove the fuses, only opened to proove dead & show the apprentice what asbestos flash pads were & to advise not to disturb. after the photo cables were sheared off outside the case, the bill casing was removed from wall closed sealed with tape, placed in a sealed clear plastic bag with warning asbestos written on it all ready for disposal.
New switch fuse and larger enclosure for 100mA S type rcd and any future circuits the owner might like to install for the barns or paddock he is planning on building.
Old cu in the house & until the owner a few months ago put the rcd it the only way to isolate the board was back at the barn. No pics of the front cover but where the main switch/rcd would have been was a dirty big hole that had been there for as long as the customer could remember......he thought it was how it was supposed to be.
New board going in
