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ARWadsworth wrote:

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
ARWadsworth wrote:
If the houses were gas CH then an individual service could well be
looped to the next property, especially if the properties were
mirrored so the meter positions of adjoining properties are close
together. Distribution of phases along the main then becomes
R-R-Y-Y-B-B-B-B-Y-Y-R-R-R-R-Y-Y etc.

Looking at the lights that go off in a powercut on our street it seems
to be R-R-Y-Y-B-B-R-R-Y-Y-B-B etc The incoming supply runs down the
garden between a pair of semis, feeds one cut out and then feeds back
across the garden to the next semis cutout.

Is the looping normally visible - ie at the riser - or underground?

On my street, 50 year old TNS supplies the looping is done at the
riser/cutout next to the meter. So in my house I have the incoming
supply and then the outgoing one to next door.

Two streets away and slightly older semi detatched houses they use a PME
supply. The supply is run externally and feed 4 houses. The joints on
this are external.

The link below shows one of the joints and the cable linking between 2
semis if you zoom in. You can see the joint on the left hand semi and
also the cable that runs around the back to feed the other neighbour.

http://tinyurl.com/ycmbfj3

Right - this one wasn't - only the one cable to the riser. But was the end
of the block.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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