"ARWadsworth" wrote in message
...
Hi

Quick question: whenever I've seen DP isolation switches in
consumer
units
the supply wires invariably enter the switch from the top, obviously
because
the busbar is connected to the bottom. However, I'm just about to
add
an
isolation switch between the meter and a connection block and was
wondering
whether I should maintain this convention, i.e. that the meter tails
are
connected to the uppermost contacts of the switch?

I guess the switch might specify which are the Feed and Load
terminals,
in which case I used them even if they were at the top. Nor reason
though why you couldn't feed the tails in from below and then run up
inside to the other terminals. Assuming there is enough space.


--
Chris French, Leeds

You could buy some new tails. Only a few quid.
..but you'd need to break the meter seal (or get the leccy board to do
it)
to connect them.

I think this group has been down this road many times. At the end of the
road the tails do belong to the owner of the house not the leccy co.
Adam



Yup, more than a few posts about that in the past!

Leccy companies don't appear to give two hoots about the seals on the
company fuse being broken to do work, but are seals on the meter a different
matter? ISTR that according to some posts it seems that some meters have a
modular approach that enables you to change the load tails without breaking
the seal.

Incidentally, a quick look at my meter tails reveals that although the tails
between the fuse and meter are coloured black and red the meter tails are
both grey - only being identified with a 1" bit of coloured electricians
tape wrapped around them. Is this acceptable? I'm planning to change the
CU soon, and will use the opportunity to chnage the tails for properly
coloured ones if the current grey ones are not compliant.

cheers
Richard

--
Richard Sampson

email me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk