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Rather than bog down the actual survey with comments thought I'd start this one

microman wrote:A survey should always include some atypical entries - so here's mine:.................


4. All electric heating (reason for 2) so mid-winter peak load can reach 10kW or more. My load-shedding heating controller monitors everything and ensures we don't stretch our 60A supply too hard..................

I blew my 60 amp supply up so they increased it to 80A ........which I blew up a year later so its now a 100amp have noticed I can make the incomer quite warm if I do start doing silly things, but since we removed all the storage heaters and have gone over to gas it doesnt happen any more was looking forward to seeing what they where going to do when I blew that one up as the last bloke that came out said they might have to renew the cable if I needed more

ChrisB

Our 60A supply has survived 6 years so far and doesn't get noticeably warm under heavy loading. We have overhead distribution and the only way they could/would increase our supply was to add an additional 60A via a separate underground cable - at a high cost and with me providing the duct under the concrete drive etc. etc! Hence the load-shedding arrangement.