Electrical Advice Required

By my calcs;

lathe at-13amps + the cooker at 13amps still give you 14amps before you need to worry :) plenty of headroom.

I'm trying to get into marine electrical :) Mainly because I am commercial and domestic qualified along with hazardous areas and a few security clearances but I like the idea of oil rig work :D. Great pay and the hefty tax break :D

Main reason being learning a new way of doing things.
 
CompEX is something im qualified in too but was made to be by my old employer as gas turbines and steam turbines is something iv been working on for the past 2 years. I sometimes see what the sparks are doing but it doesn't interest me as much as instrumentation anymore which is a shame as when i was training at college i loved electrical and went and studied plc's because of it also as i had an interest in automation

Rig work is great iv just applied to DongEnergy and got an opportunity at another power station build at the moment
 
Automation would be a good one to learn. Especially the way the world is going.

I must admit I've found the oil world a bit constricted the jobs are quite difficult to get. I recently found a old port sparky who's teaching me the ropes gives me more to put on the cv and hopefully get a oil job.
 
Yeah plc and pneumatics seems like it will be something to watch really. Who knows maybe when am 40 ill be in a manufacturing plant on a cushy job.

I had chances to go do the servicing on the platforms for the little frame 6 turbines on deck but its a very difficult job and usually everything gets replaced as the salt just rips it to bits. I liked me simple land job were 9/10 nothing was broken unless a meccy stood on it or it was destroyed by the turbine itsself
 
I imagine salt is quite an issue with all systems on rigs.


Did you learn how to program plcs as well as implement? I'm tempted it would be rather interesting to learn.
 
Nightglow said:
You can buy double stacked consumer units, most are around 300mm wide.

Have used a few in the past, where space has been tight.

Proteus do them, & MK use to offer a stacking kit for their consumer units, & Hager have a range as well.

http://www.hager.co.uk/news-exhibit...e/2012/product-update-|-august-2012/12946.htm


If your existing consumer unit is situated fair low, & your cables drops from above, a you can always mount the cu higher to give enough cable to connect lower section, & then use longer tails from consumer unit back to meter.
Click to expand...

Came back to post this. Used to fit these on some mods a few years ago. They were either Wylex or Crabtree, Decent little units as well. It's the way I would go about it.
 
ZG002 said:
Came back to post this. Used to fit these on some mods a few years ago. They were either Wylex or Crabtree, Decent little units as well. It's the way I would go about it.
Click to expand...

That's it, Crabtree, that's the ones I use to fit nearly 15 years ago.
 
It's technically the property of the national grid. They seem to be under the impression sparkies would pull the fuse then lick the incoming or somthing :D
 
It's your supplier's / national grid property, & it's sealed with a piece of wire & a crimped lead sealed.

But, many sparkys pull them, then reseal.:o
 
It's supposed to expload with quite some force when they do trip. I haven't witnessed it myself.

I guess it makes sense to not allow it as its the last protection from the nearest substation so in theory if you really screwed up you could cause quite a lot of damage.
 
One of my work mates got a rubbish ZE on a TNS system, So he decided to tighten the clamp on the incoming.... Boom! He was ok but it wasn't fun apparently.
 
Mynight said:
It's technically the property of the national grid. They seem to be under the impression sparkies would pull the fuse then lick the incoming or somthing :D
Click to expand...

:D Just noticed the security 'wire' that on mine, that i've seen in many sparkys tool kits lol.
 
The seal pliers I have have a number engraved in them, which is then imprinted into the lead seal, number use to be traceable.
No idea if today's pliers still have a number or id mark.
 
Unsure how it works wouldn't want to mess with it, I got part of it done today anyhow. Forgot a couple of junction boxes ill get them tomorrow and get it sorted out. Pain as iv got to kill the power to house to open the CU inside as to remove the cover all the fuses must be removed. Stupid that.

Ah well shouldn't be off for long as im going to have it all wired up to Sub-CU and ready so its a 5 min job so no one moans :')
 
Mines like that as well not 100% sure why they were designed like that. The joys of old houses and wiring :(

I should really put a 17th edition cu in at some point. I have noticed fuses seem to have a lot more tolerance. I've come across a few new units that trip when someone sneezes.
 
Haha i like ours it won't break/trip under the worst conditions of life. A friends flat he trips both his lights and power every time he plugs something in why the socket is in the on position really is quite funny when he forgets to turn it off first

Should update the CU here one day but until a reason comes along (e.g moving house and they make it mandatory) for them i won't be touching it as it is solid
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom