"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 10:06:26 +0100, newshound
wrote:

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. You could well be right, there
might or might not be 3 phase available. If the current electrician
cannot advise, then you need someone who works on (small) industrial
sites. Sounds like perhaps the 3 phase meter has been taken out and
replaced with a single phase one.

If he (or I but I'm not up there) really wanted to know, it's easy enough
to peek around and use a multimeter. But at the moment it's just a matter
of interest for a possible future electric boiler installation. I was
just wondering if houses ever had more than one phase installed or if you
had to ask for it.

more attention seeking trolling from phuckerprick
he will have a wank over each reply