I don't see any cables at all, the field has cows in. I can't see any supply cables any there round the box. Unless they are underground. Want to do some planting etc so not sure about digging here.
Electric fence kits are normally portable and are connected to a 12volt battery to give power, the energiser box should have an earth spike so its pushed into the ground and dosent fall over, postive and negative cables are attached to the battery and the fencing to give it power, when the fencing is touched one gets a mild tingling enough to stop animals and chickens from going near the fencing.
In the pics I can't see where the cables go are connected , but I will speculate there was once a supply that has now been removed, maybe a meter too. I wouldn't touch it until that is confirmed though. If you can lay your hands on a clamp meter you can see if there is any load. It appears to be 415v which is a much more fatal shock than domestic 230v.
Is there any suggestion that there might once have been a pole for an overhead supply? The clear acrylic cover is much more modern than the iron cabinet.
You could ask your electrical supplier (they will probably pass the request to the DNO) to comment.
Looking around the box there are no other cable entry or exit points. Just the black and purple cables in the bottom going to the black cover. I have a clamp meter so will check it out. No sign of anything else in the box. Looking at the switch, there is a fuse each side. No idea where the earth cables go either just into the ground.
If it was me I would be struggling with the temptation to turn it off and see what happened. That could be unsafe though because when you turned it back on there might be machinery starting up, or a person investigating with his hands inside a box downstream.
If it was me I would be struggling with the temptation to turn it off and see what happened. That could be unsafe though because when you turned it back on there might be machinery starting up, or a person investigating with his hands inside a box downstream.
Haha I did wonder. But will dig out clamp meter and test for power. Got a broken leg so takes 20 min to get to end of garden with crutches at the moment. I REALLY want to know what it does
But that doesn't mean 100% this was used for street lighting.
A clamp meter round the cable will not indicate if current is flowing as the current in the Live will be equal and opposite to the current in the Neutral hence these two will cancel each other out and the clamp meter will show zero.
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