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if your on about the cable size (from your house to garage) call a local sparkie to see tell him what you want to run and he'll sort it out.
I want 3 phase hooked up in my garage soon will cost abit to get put in but it runs downs most street, my neighbour has it in his garage.
I want 3 phase hooked up in my garage soon will cost abit to get put in but it runs downs most street, my neighbour has it in his garage.
brightspark
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for what the difrence in price would be run a min 6.0mm cable to it .giving 40 amp. as said u might want to add to it
Hello Vdub,
"I want 3 phase hooked up in my garage soon will cost abit to get put in but it runs downs most street, my neighbour has it in his garage."
It doesn't necessarily follow, we were quoted over £8,000 for three phase and paid about £800 for single and the power lines run over our building.
The reason for the expense of three phase was that they said they would need to upgrade the transformer (size) and we would have to pay part of that.
Alec
"I want 3 phase hooked up in my garage soon will cost abit to get put in but it runs downs most street, my neighbour has it in his garage."
It doesn't necessarily follow, we were quoted over £8,000 for three phase and paid about £800 for single and the power lines run over our building.
The reason for the expense of three phase was that they said they would need to upgrade the transformer (size) and we would have to pay part of that.
Alec
Power is distributed in 3 phase , all that happens when domestic properties are connected is they just use 1 phase for one street or row of house , another phase for the next and so on. The cost just depends on where the connection bus is relative to a given house. If it's at the most distant end of the row or street the new run of cable trench would have to be covered , but if your on top of it it should be as cheap as chips.
Hello Tigler,
"as cheap as chips. " ??
our single phase connection (installed about one month ago) as I said was £800, the pole is within 4 meters of the meter box and we dug the trench, fitted the box etc.
All I can say is chips must be expensive in Worcester?
Alec
"as cheap as chips. " ??
our single phase connection (installed about one month ago) as I said was £800, the pole is within 4 meters of the meter box and we dug the trench, fitted the box etc.
All I can say is chips must be expensive in Worcester?
Alec
Well , in a relative way !! £800 is cheap for a job done by 'professionals' these days. Many people cheerfully pay that to a garage to have a car 'serviced' !
If I could get 3 phase into my garage for that I'd take their collective arms off at the shoulder !!
If I could get 3 phase into my garage for that I'd take their collective arms off at the shoulder !!
Hello Tigler,
well the job took them only a short time to complete, maybe an hour. The other point is that for them to sell their goods, i.e. electricity, they need to provide a means of supply.
Our business supplies goods and we do our own deliveries and provide the fairly expensive containers to deliver our product. This is costed into our price and we don't charge separately for it.
Alec
well the job took them only a short time to complete, maybe an hour. The other point is that for them to sell their goods, i.e. electricity, they need to provide a means of supply.
Our business supplies goods and we do our own deliveries and provide the fairly expensive containers to deliver our product. This is costed into our price and we don't charge separately for it.
Alec
The problem is that an organisation like a power utility costs everything into the job. Before the team even got on site there would have been logistics , admin , people who do meetings , door men , etc , etc , to pay for !
Put it this way , it's over a £100 to have a phone line connected these days , and in an existing property that has a line installed that involves a mouse click on a computer screen !!
Put it this way , it's over a £100 to have a phone line connected these days , and in an existing property that has a line installed that involves a mouse click on a computer screen !!
the snooper
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i think all properties when built should have 3 phase wired in as standard at the time of build per house it wouldn't cost that much more.
then all that would be required would be the installation of meter/s
then all that would be required would be the installation of meter/s
the artfull-codger
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It all depends where you live if there's 3 phase along the street, there is only 2 phase where I live & I have it into our house but I only use single phase, I wish there was 3 phase!!!
slan go fol
slan go fol
madkayaker
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there is many variables for specing the cable 10mm might well be over kill if you only have capacity for 40A or it might have to be for the installation. Get a local sparky to have a look at the job
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distance, volt drop, fault current and then finally current carrying capacity
madkayaker
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you measure the ZE into the building as a start point then select breaker type and size, look up the max ZS or the over current needed to operate the device. work out the disconnection time needed for the installation and this gives you the ZS needed for the circuit then work out the resistivity you cannot exede for the cable and this gives you a size. If you are using the armorage as the earth for example you then have to check if it is capable of taking the current for the time needed the is called the Adiabatic equation. As you don't want the cpc melting before the fuse or breaker operates
