Wow I would not even walk anywhere near it!

Can’t wait to see what it looks like when EV charging points are added to that lot. 👹

Edited By V8Eng on 14/01/2021 15:54:34

Makes my efforts look positively professional.

They seem to have left some spare cable in case the communication cables needed re-terminating.!!!

Only guessing now but the boxes could be metered supplies with some kind of switch/mcb positioned at the bottom behind a hinged cover.

Emgee

Looks good to me. It's a real pain to have to put a joint in a cable when you do some new work because you did a nice neat job the first time and left no slack for adjustments.

I quite like this one, and I have seen worse from the 90's. When his eyes light up it's the right circuit.

The last one just scares me.

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Different ships; different splices.

"It works dunnit?"

Acceptable mortality rates vary according to the part of the world under consideration.

For centuries, the custom in Persia (Now Iran ) was for folk to sit around a table, with a clloth large enough to cover their knees as well as the table. Beneath the table was a brazier so that the fire heated everyone.

That custom still lingered on. In 1985, but the brazier as a heat source had been superceded by a small electric fire element (Reminiscent of the little 750 watt Belling electric fire), with the element wound along a serpentine path in a fireclay "brick".

When the element burned through at some point, the technique was to identify the position of the break and to stand over it dropping paper clips until, one fell and bridged the break. Switching off never seemed to be an option!

These were the same folk who would attempt to join any two things by screwing the parts together, seemingly irrespective of diameter or pitch "Its got a screw thread on it" was the regular response, despite threads in use including BSP, Unified and Metric

Howard

I was setting up a computer room at a school in Ghana few couple of years ago and I was getting shocks if I touched a computer and the metal bars on the windows (unglazed holes in wall). The wiring in the room actually looked quite decent and certainly had all the earths on the sockets connected. The teacher was unconcerned saying the students didn't mind! Further investigation showed that this newer building was wired to the main building with a length of flex supported by a wooden pole. The main building had an overhead 3 phase and neutral feed to an old MEM fuse box, No earth connection whatsoever. The school is on a sand dune so little point in even trying an earth rod. In the end I bonded all the window grilles together and to the ring main "earth" thus all exposed metal was equipotential.

Went back the year before last to do some updates and found the school was suffering power outages. They thought it was the general area but eventually I convinced them it was just the scholl becuase I could see a broken cross bar on one of the power poles feeding the school but the shops across the main road had power. The school reported it, but nothing was done. I was then taken down to "explain" to the district power engineer, That got a crew on site who confirmed my diagnosis. The then put in a emegency supply. Thi consited of getting two rolls of 2.5mm2 single insulated wire, one red one black, connecting it to the feed side of a meter (on outside wall) of a shop across the road, running them across the road, connecting to a 13A socket in the middle of the pavement outside the school. No earth, no fuses. I then had an extension lead to the computer room…..

Robert G8RPI.

The set up is similar to what I have seen in Ghana. The box is the electricity meter. This design seems to have a breaker integrated into the lower part of it. Generally, these are pre-pay meters. You go to the local agent with the meter number, pay your money and the meter credit is sent to the meter over the ether. The fat cable going in to the right is the electricity company's supply. The skinny cables are going to the property.

It is cheaper for the electricity company this way as they do not have to run their cable to each property: they give you a connected meter where they want to and you have to do the rest. Where it is situated also gives the best chance of it receiving the top-up credit signal rather than being up a narrow, dark alley at ground floor with three flats above it. It also minimises the risk of someone tapping into the supply cable before the meter.

I saw some good examples in Kathmandu, Nepal, two years ago. (Sigh, remember when we could go places?)

Sorry about the sideways orientation of the first pic. Its ok on my computer but I cant change it. Maybe mods can?

The streets are as hazardous as the wires above! All thoughts of renting a motorbike went out the window when I saw the combination of dealing with chaotic traffic while riding on a surface akin to a motocross track strewn with concrete blocks and boulders and potholes big enough to bust a wheel. This is actually a rare good bit with a strip asphalt down the middle to fight over.

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