u/Logical-Cash-7734

Proximity to overhead power lines

I’m working at a small festival and 6 metres scaffold poles are being used to run festoon lighting around the carpark field park field. There is a set of overhead power lines running across the field on pylons. Obviously the poles will be kept well clear of those but I’m wondering what distance is required by regulation. ESQCR just seems to say it needs to be far enough so as not to cause danger but I assume there must be a specific distance limit (or at least a distance range dependant on voltage) and Google seems to thing this too but I’m struggling to find the specific reg.
Does anyone know what it is or which set of regulations would cover this?

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u/Logical-Cash-7734 — 1 day ago

Decent training providers

I’m currently training to be an electrician. I’ve done my L2 but the training company were so useless that not only did they not actually teach anything but, so much of the info they provided was wrong, they actually made learning harder. I’m looking for somewhere to do my L3 (ideally in north east London but happy to travel for a decent course provider).

Does anyone have any recommendations of decent companies to do my L3 with?

Or particularly bad ones to avoid?

Or are they all just as useless (a lot of the City & Guild material they’re working from seems to be riddled with errors)?

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u/Logical-Cash-7734 — 3 months ago

How many spurs

I’m currently doing my L2 and have been given the question:

“How many unfused spurs can be connected to a Type A1 Ring circuit with 4 BS 1363 Socket-Outlets?”

I think the answer should be up to four because “the number of non-fused spurs should not exceed the total number of socket-outlets and items of stationary equipment connected directly in the circuit.” (On-site guide pg. 219)

My tutor says the answer is one because “In an A1 ring final circuit and an A2 radial circuit of Table H2.1 a non-fused spur should feed only one single or one twin or multiple socket-outlet or one item of permanently connected equipment.“ (On-site guide pg. 219). However, I read this to mean that each spur can only feed one socket-outlet, but there could still be up to four spurs (each feeding only one socket-outlet).

Am I wrong? Have I misread this? Is it just written unclearly? Have I missed something elsewhere in the guide?

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u/Logical-Cash-7734 — 3 months ago