Joenicholson1996
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Not so quick question for anyone willing to help me.
September last year I ran a 6mm 3 core swa from my uncles house up to his summer house as the main supply. I added another small db (like a garage DB) in the house under the board and ran a cable from the live side of the main household breaker to the new db. This then ran through a main RCD earth leakage breaker to a 40Amp single pole breaker up to the summer house. There is nothing up there other than lights and a few sockets for a computer/heater and such like. I used glands and earth tags, putting an m6 but and bolt on the tag with a crimped earth to the main earth bar to earth the steel wired armour itself. Everything worked fine up until this month. I left my him to run the cable in the trees telling him to use cable cleats, of course he used aluminium fixings instead and I hadn't seen this until I went up to find out why it all stopped working. Basically I had 230 volts on the feed out from the breaker in the new house db, and I had nothing at the top of the garden indicating there was a damage in the cable, but no breaker had tripped. Considering how I used the earth tags to earth the steel armour as well as a cable in the 3 core swa, how could this possibly not trip the breaker?
Any help on this would be brilliant sorry for the life story but it means you know all the facts.
Would also like to add that I went up to sort it out assuming it was a damaged cable talking a joining kit but before I did that I changed all the glands and remade the cable ends etc and everything is working again Any help is appreciated
cheers
September last year I ran a 6mm 3 core swa from my uncles house up to his summer house as the main supply. I added another small db (like a garage DB) in the house under the board and ran a cable from the live side of the main household breaker to the new db. This then ran through a main RCD earth leakage breaker to a 40Amp single pole breaker up to the summer house. There is nothing up there other than lights and a few sockets for a computer/heater and such like. I used glands and earth tags, putting an m6 but and bolt on the tag with a crimped earth to the main earth bar to earth the steel wired armour itself. Everything worked fine up until this month. I left my him to run the cable in the trees telling him to use cable cleats, of course he used aluminium fixings instead and I hadn't seen this until I went up to find out why it all stopped working. Basically I had 230 volts on the feed out from the breaker in the new house db, and I had nothing at the top of the garden indicating there was a damage in the cable, but no breaker had tripped. Considering how I used the earth tags to earth the steel armour as well as a cable in the 3 core swa, how could this possibly not trip the breaker?
Any help on this would be brilliant sorry for the life story but it means you know all the facts.
Would also like to add that I went up to sort it out assuming it was a damaged cable talking a joining kit but before I did that I changed all the glands and remade the cable ends etc and everything is working again Any help is appreciated
cheers