On 31/10/2011 17:28, ARWadsworth wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
On 30/10/2011 21:51, ARWadsworth wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
On 30/10/2011 18:18, jgharston wrote:
clangers wrote:
What is the accepted way to extend the incoming main? Henley
blocks or something more substantial?

It must be a single continuous cable, no Henley blocks or similar
as they are points where unmetered electricity can be taken from...

Although a couple of nails driven into the cable is probably a more
common way of doing it.

Line taps.

Only if the people who steal electricity have become a lot more
sophisticated since I was in the industry.

They are.

The cleverest we got was a chap who dug two quite small holes in the
party wall and drove 6 inch nails through them into the meter tails
belonging to his next door neighbour. Unfortunately for him, he hit the
ones coming out of the meter and the neighbour called us in to
investigate why his meter readings were suddenly a lot higher. Even so,
it took a keen-eyed engineer to spot it.

Colin Bignell