I've got a 10KvA tranny in my workshop feeding a few sockets around the place, and a main isolator by the door. It works really well.
I've got a tranny in my workshop.
not a direct answer, but you could consider sockets on retractable reels - solves the problem of trailing cables.
Like this but for 110V and suitably rated even when rolled up.
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Thanks for the suggestion. To a "normal" person then great, but how do i put this? ummm, 99% of what im trying to train are not normal. Young kids that are really deprived of common sense and retractable leeds would end up with kids trapped in them.
Hence im trying to find a system where them have just enough flex attached to a tool to keep them in the training bay, any longer then we have people tripping over, cutting through cables, attached to others clothing etc.
A few months ago we had a fire, the fire was started because one lad put down a heat gun on the floor still turned on (yep stupid but this was just the start) Then the other lad sharring his training bay also put his heat gun down and still on. He put it down behind the other heat gun so that it was blowing hot air direct into the other one. The first heat gun set fire . So what did they do ?
Well they then kicked off into a big argument of whos fault it was. Not - lets turn the power off or hit the fire alarm, maybe shout a instructor, grab C02 fire extinguisher maybe? No lets stand and argue whos fault it is. The fact that both guns was going to cause a fire either way didnt enter their minds, let alone trying to do something about it like raise the alarm.
I might add that these apprentices had only just spent a few hours previous about H+S and what to do when there is a fire.
Trust me, im dealing with a totally different league most days.
It sounds like emergency stop buttons would be a very good idea then!
I find it strange that a business like a training centre doesn't have relationships already with a few trusted local electrical contractors.
I get the idea that your fellow sparkys look up on you like that skid mark that a previous toilet user has left for all to see
Any recommendations on what type to purchase for 240v. Yes i want key reset.
I can see another few miles of cable going in ! Had add on to alarm system today and amazed to see 1 km of cable go in .
Will have to speak to sparky as im not sure if the location of the kill switches will give issues on cable size due to vote drop etc from the main CU unit's in the different areas. From the way i think they work it will mean another 100 meter of cable going in on rings that the sparky calculated we are close to max as it is.
Or do these switches use some sort of remote to CU maybe?
Im presuming that the switches will need to have both ends of the ring going into them to kill power before they get to sockets?
Doesn't it get very expensive having to pay those contractors for being there 24/7?... then one or more contractors are installed in or adjacent to the dist board ...
Doesn't it get very expensive having to pay those contractors for being there 24/7?... then one or more contractors are installed in or adjacent to the dist board ...
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