On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:45:30 -0000 someone who may be "Blair"
wrote this:-

I have an underground cable controlling a water pump which supplies my house
, The cable is armoured. Is it necessary to earth the metal armour
protection?

Yes.

Whether you make such a connection at both ends depends on how you
are earthing the pump and any building it is in. There have been
several threads on this recently to do with garages.


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David Hansen, Edinburgh
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