Mike, This kinda has me thinking.. Do you folks have apartment buildings over there with actual "banks" of meters off of one service line? and how would those be fused? per unit or a set for the whole bank?
Gidday Randy,
Now I'll try and answer this the best I can, in that I haven't had a lot to do with apartment buildings as they are practically non-existant down in this part of the country.
However we do have what are known as "town-houses", which are like small 1-2 bedroom flats that are usually joined together and share a common roof.
From a distribution perspective, these would be fed from a distribution pillar box out on the street, each having thier own service line and this would be fused inside the pillar box.
The service line would then run underground and up to the metering enclosure in one of the outside walls of each individual unit.
The tails from the meters would then feed the switch-board panel inside the unit.
