Cheap electric

The_One · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:01

Dodgy as

SideWinder · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:02

Yours?

sam83uk · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:03

oh christ i can see what this is going to turn into

The_One · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:04

Missed one

lay-z-boy · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:05

Latest power cable needed for ati HD9435365345430000000000000000XTXTXTXTX?

Will_3rd · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:08

stealing from the street light, you Dutch or something?

The_One · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:12

lol aint mine, guys electrics gone off in his house but rest of street are fine.

"electrician" wired him up until they can get power back on.

Dont suppose he asked for company id card beforehand

norm · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:32

Tapping into the electricity supply on lamp posts is fairly simple. They all have a detachable fuse which removes the current, after which you rig up you circuit and plug the fuse back in.

If you took measures to only use it at night and gradually increased the power demand I doubt they'd notice for some time.

-Nick- · 26 Jul 2007 at 00:38

excellent

Adam_151 · 26 Jul 2007 at 08:27

The_One said:
lol aint mine, guys electrics gone off in his house but rest of street are fine.

"electrician" wired him up until they can get power back on.

Dont suppose he asked for company id card beforehand

I assume yvou mean a cable jointer from the local DNO? not an electrician?

It does indeed look RAF (rough as....), but does seem to be an offical DNO bodge

Adam_151 · 26 Jul 2007 at 08:31

norm said:
Tapping into the electricity supply on lamp posts is fairly simple. They all have a detachable fuse which removes the current, after which you rig up you circuit and plug the fuse back in.

If you took measures to only use it at night and gradually increased the power demand I doubt they'd notice for some time.

Its also potentially dangerous, removing a service fuse from even a modern service head leaves accesible live parts, and with the older ones, the ceramic insulator rings could break away could result in a very big bang

I ask that you refrain from robbin' the street lamp

Anyway, they wouldn't notice someone ripping them off through the bills because street lamps are unmetered supplies, the usage is calculated from knowledge of what lamps and how many are in use and how many hours they burn for

The_One · 26 Jul 2007 at 17:56

Well just to put you in the picture contractors working for british gas are responsible for that cowboy job

Millwall.FC · 26 Jul 2007 at 17:59

oh its comming from the street lighting thats even worse :|

Mr Nice · 26 Jul 2007 at 18:02

Damn ****** everywhere

Adam_151 · 26 Jul 2007 at 18:07

The_One said:
Well just to put you in the picture contractors working for british gas are responsible for that cowboy job

I'd expect they are contractors for your DNO (which depends on the area you live in: http://wiki.diynot.com/electrics:other:dnomap )

Its all been privatised now you see

, you pay your bill to the electricity supplier, for electricity which flows down infrastructure looked after by the DNO, and its measured by a meter looked after by a metering company

And I'd bet money on it being straight-con ( http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i62/RFLighting/StraightCon.jpg ) and not armoured, the former is quite a bit thinner than the latter for the same CSA (cross-sectional area) of conductor, I'd probably guess that to be 16mm² straight con

wolvotim · 26 Jul 2007 at 18:09

nothing wrong with that ive done it loads of times

Millwall.FC · 26 Jul 2007 at 18:15

Adam_151 said:
I'd expect they are contractors for your DNO (which depends on the area you live in: http://wiki.diynot.com/electrics:other:dnomap )

Its all been privatised now you see , you pay your bill to the electricity supplier, for electricity which flows down infrastructure looked after by the DNO, and its measured by a meter looked after by a metering company

And I'd bet money on it being straight-con ( http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i62/RFLighting/StraightCon.jpg ) and not armoured, the former is quite a bit thinner than the latter for the same CSA (cross-sectional area) of conductor, I'd probably guess that to be 16mm² straight con

there is no way the armoured in the picture is 16mm it's too small to be 16mm 2 core aswell. to me it looks like maybe a 3 core 4mm or smaller. i doubt they would use the swa as the earth.

wolvotim · 26 Jul 2007 at 18:19

Millwall.FC said:
there is no way the armoured in the picture is 16mm it's too small to be 16mm 2 core aswell. to me it looks like maybe a 3 core 4mm or smaller. i doubt they would use the swa as the earth.

looks like 35mm PME to me. it only has one core

Adam_151 · 26 Jul 2007 at 18:24

Millwall.FC said:
i doubt they would use the swa as the earth.

In the case of Concentric (think of it as a giant sized version modeled on the same idea as tv coax) the inner conductor is phase, while the outer one is either neutral or CNE (if the supply is PME)

wolvotim · 26 Jul 2007 at 18:45

I'll fix it for a price!£!£!