On 21/08/13 10:30, The Other Mike wrote:
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:10:34 +0100, Tim Streater
wrote:

In article ,
There is no problem with being in physical contact with the sheath of 400kV
undercround cables either at AC or DC its just like large bore water pipe.
Just do it by hand rather than with a JCB.
Well quite. But is the cable metal-sheathed?
Armoured and then a non conductive sheath


whether there is a problem or not, detectable magnet and electrostatic
fields will exist outside the cable.

3 phase armoured cables are NOT buried as a balanced three wire plus
ground arrangement - not the11KV one's under my garden anyway.


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