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On 29/08/2015 01:17, wrote:
On Saturday, 29 August 2015 00:13:19 UTC+1, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
My father has said he has a 415V sticker on the feed into his meter
box. From what he's told me there is the normal arrangement of master
fuse, meter, then into the house to the consumer unit. The house was
built in 1985ish and is detached. I've never seen inside the meterbox
myself, only the consumer unit, which looked like a normal run of the
mill row of circuit breakers with one master at the end, 100A. If
there were three phases in the meterbox I'd expect his description to
include a lot more. Now the previous owner did have an ironwork hobby
with "high powered equipment", but he was a very frugal sort and I
doubt he would have got three phases installed if he didn't absolutely
have to - mind you I believe he was the first owner of the house and
designed it himself, so maybe it's just as cheap to get three phases
when building the property? The reason this has come up is they've
just had a 10kW electric shower fitted (used to run from the hot water
tank, but that one wa
s
old and leaky) and are considering replacing their ageing oil boiler
with an electric one, which the electrician fitting the shower warned
would require a relay to switch off the boiler so it didn't run at the
same time as the shower as he'd run out of juice. When he saw 415V he
was wondering if he infact had more phases available.

clear piccy wanted


NT


Ignore BM, this is the right answer.

For a pointless question?

Just another stupid thread starter as I see it.
Never mind, Wodney has joined in, now we'll get some sense.
Right?



BTW rental properties with a 3 phase supply are in demand for those that
like to grow plants.

There are two unmetered phases available and all that is stopping you using
them is two meter seals and a two missing fuses.


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Adam