Paul,
Somebody has to ask: WHY?
I must say I'm with you on that comment.
I'm just glad it's not my job to install this equipment.
uksparky,
What's your guy gonna do for his fridge/s?
On the surface of things, I don't really think that the home-owner has put a lot of thought into what effect this is going to have on his house.
When I was having a "walk-through" look at the place yesterday, I can see this job turning into a real can of worms.
There's all sorts of gear that's going to have to be segregated from any Contactor system:
- The house is fed with 3 phase 230V.
- The house has Under-floor heating all through it.
- The guy has 2 fridges and 2 Deep Freezers.
- There is a 9kW Air Conditioning Unit that has a mains-operated timer controlling it and the timer isn't on the switchboard.
- The guy want's his alarm clocks to stay on too!.
- The security lighting is on a seperate timer and that isn't on the board either.
- My colleague tells me that there is a security camera system that is fed from a plug circuit, that is required to be isolated at night, but the home-owner wants the cameras on 24/7.
Adding to all this, the house is what you would call a country house, in the true sense of the word, the switch-board looks so old, I reckon Captain Cook installed it and there is very little room left on it.
I told my mate to run as fast as he could!.