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#134395 11/10/02 12:43 AM
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Please could Old Appy or anyone else who wants to have input, please tell me if an out-building that is 25 metres from the supplying Switch-board, run in Neutral-screened 6mm2, 3core, do I need to have a driven Earth Stake, or can I make this a Distribution board and take out the N-E link?. [Linked Image]

#134396 11/10/02 04:53 AM
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Maybe just as easy to have a MEN board out there if you only have a NS cable out to it.

[This message has been edited by old Appy (edited 11-10-2002).]

#134397 11/11/02 02:10 AM
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Thanks Craig,
Came in too late with this job, the cable had already been laid(not sure how deep!),
Meggered it and got 150Megohms between the NS
and all phases.(@1000V)
Will drive a stake.
Ever bent a stake in stony soil?, done it for the first time, last week, out at the local abbattiors, installing a 600A sub-main, the stake started to come up through the ground about 3 foot away from where I was driving it. [Linked Image]


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