A quick question please?

[Grandad]

This is a new deck and spa installation at a friends house. She has concerns over the existing 240V feed from the street.
It's exactly 2400mm from deck surface to underside of barge board.
The loop is clearly less.

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Is this legal in Victoria?

Jim

[supersparky]

Jim, I will have a squiz in the standard when I get back home later today, but I'm thinking no. Is there a swimming pool behind that glass fence?

[BruceS]

I reckon it would be in SA as most of the housing trust homes are connected like that.
Pretty tough insulation on the wires?
A few years a go you could get them to change it to underground for very little money if not free.
Even Councils could get all the street lines undergrounded for minimal cost.
All new builds are under.

[Grandad]

Thanks guys,

David, there's an above ground spa in the area. The electrical is within the confines of the safety fencing.

Jim

[Grandad]

Bruce, all that underground work kept my eldest son employed for a little over a decade.

It's a definite step in the right direction IMneverHO.

Jim

[Newcastle George]

with underground to houses there are now twice as many poles with one steel pole at every house as well as the street poles which carry the wires which are then connected to the poles at the house boundary. Any damage, eg rust, is the house owner's responsibility.

George

[BruceS]

Not quite getting it George?
What poles? That's the point.... remove them all & just have a few pits or cabinets in some places.
We actually have a couple of poles just to hang the transformers off. Had to be above '56 flood level!

[T1 Terry]

Not quite getting it George?
What poles? That's the point.... remove them all & just have a few pits or cabinets in some places.
We actually have a couple of poles just to hang the transformers off. Had to be above '56 flood level!

That's the one that gets me, the green box where the power to each dwelling in that area links to, would be below the '56 flood level, how does that work? I remember the old sub station behind the Mannum OTR where they sand bagged the area when we had the big wet the yrs we moved here, then a few yrs later they rebuilt the thing with transformers on poles ..... but there are still a few ground mounted ones so .....

That mega big bugger on the pole outside the workshop is wired underground to our workshop and next door, but the house beside us has wires in the air to the house I think the transformer is isolated now because Jerry no longer has the place and the mega power using machines are no longer here .... just the wiring

T1 Terry

[BruceS]

Terry I think the 'flood levy' you're referring to was more to do with catching the oil if a transformer blew up. That big sub-station 2/3 of the way to the Bridge also has a big oil catching levy around it.
That sub-station behind OTR service station is now underground in solid concrete. I think some of the Isis threats decided that for them. Too easy to blow up sub stations.
I've often wondered about our drinking water held in reservoirs. Be easy to drop a few 44gal drums of arsenic into them.
Our green distro cabinets are on the consumer side of what the electro company owns. We actually own them cabinets.
IF we ever had a big flood they will switch off up near the top of the poles near the trannies.

[Newcastle George]

What poles Bruce?

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It's underground from the gal pole to our house.

George