Fitting 500a 3 phase busbar tap-off's
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- čas přidán 14. 08. 2021
- In this video we've been tasked with installing 3 commando sockets, wired in SWA via a MEWP, with the circuits simply plugin into 500a 3 phase busbar trunking to get a supply.
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I’m not gonna lie I get all excited seeing all this big stuff and not feeling the same working domestically. I want to start a business doing all but mainly commercial looks so much more interesting
You’re awesome man ! A year into my apprenticeship, and your videos help show and guide me into my career. Much love brother !
Seeing this on a sunday, and you realise you'd rather be doing this kind of work instead of your current one...
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Hi Mike, from old spark from the 60's. Now that was for me a really entertaining video, really good to see how you work, that was a really good tip with the insulating tape to colour code the cable does looks neat. I do look forward to your industrial video's not that there's anything wrong with house bashing I used to do both but just make a refreshing change, Nice neat job. You certainly are knowledgable if I could live my life again I would do more industrial work but that was over 50 years ago things have change so much. Sorry I'm rambling. Cheers Mike.
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Hi Mike,
Great video! Excellent installation! Great to see Ian with you on this one!
Always look forward to your uploads! See you on the next one. Take care, stay safe 🙏🏼👍⚡️P.S. Mike you are a natural presenter!
Hahaha amazing, it’s almost worth the name artwork! Keep on the good work mate, you are doing a great job and you share it with the community, thanks for that!
Neat fast and tidy..well done.keep them coming..
Good video dude, interesting to see bus-bar stuff.
Great work man! Very clean and efficient. Great video.
Another great video - I remember Unistrut used as containment being referred to as 'Lighting Trunking' in industry.
In 1963 we installed an early form of Unistrut,green with grooves down each side and a metal snap in lid as lighting trunking,proper trunking wasn’t around at the time,we were still installing 2 inch conduit
What a neat and professional job.
A great watch mate. Good work. 👍
I'm learning loads!
So epic, love seeing equipment from other countries. We dont have bus-bars that run lengths of buildings. Seems like such a great idea for future-proofing installations making it easier for modifications later down the line. Must be a higher initial cost though, which is probably why our country doesn't use it everyone wants the cheapest options!
Once again a great video. Thanks.
Nice one mate. That distribution centre looks quite new, if you think that’s dirty try working in a 20+ year old one. Everything gets dirty from the fine dust, I have worked in cleaner factories.
you should work in a metal factory ...with machines with hydrolic oil and cooling flued .. that's nasty .. when you need to replace cables .. ( don't ask me how i know )
That's at the sainsbury depot on the dirft I was a maintenance man there!!
You worked for clover TS
Another great video
Hi Mate, any more videos cooking? Haven't seen you in a while. Cheers Paul
Ive never even thought of using my ergo strip on SWA. I only use it on flex. 🤯 👍
Great Video with abit of singing along too! I always use the numbers cores it's easier in my view with numbers each end (still check incase of manufacturer error
Very interesting* stuff mate. I’m currently trying to get into industrial electrics, I’m from a back ground of auto electrics (cars, trucks, coaches) but fancy a change of career. Keep up the excellent work and be safe brother 👍
your content is exellent, thankyou
Nice tidy job mate 👍🏻
Interesting devices and materials yall have over there.
Hi love your videos, keep up the good work!
You sure its a DHL Distribution Center its rly clean for one
I know I’m late to this video, but it’s interesting to see. Our company directives state we are not allowed to plug into a live busbar. We have to isolate the bar in the sub before we can plug in.
Also, when you’re up high and wearing a harness, it’s useful to actually attach the other end of the harness to the MEWP 😉
Class vid great job well done boys
Super interesting 🧙♂️
Great video ❤️❤️❤️
I reckon a fork truck will have that unistrut knocked over in a week 😂
Decent install fella miss doing work like this
Whe had the same busbar system in parts of our old factory a great system just not for wet enviremonts or repeated plug removal and plugins.
i think its called the schneider electric Canalis ks system.
Served my time in the uk then moved to south africa 45 years ago. Still refer to 3 phase as RWB, Black is not acceptable in our regs as a live conductor. I work mostly in industrial here cables are normally RWB tape the black as earth. Keep up the good content.
nice job!
GLOVES,,,,,when using the knife, fit shroud first save tape,,,,the string is for pulling to remove the outer sheath save running a knife down it good cable comes with it inside ..I’m amazed looking at your jobs before and all the boxes and tools you have you not got coloured sheath with you . Another good job ,,,do you Rate the impact battery wrench yes pack out and tools video have you used the earthing nuts instead of the lock ring.before
@@residualelectrical quick reply ,,,enjoy video keep it up ,,far more entertaining than the house bashers boil in bag Sparks’s...mid week videos maybe
16 here Looks great would love to have some work experience at some where like this
i understand the sometimes very difficult, sometimes amazing feeling that working for amazon gives, they are either your best friend or your worst enemy
All good stuff no explosions
Try the SACS tool for you SWA cutting, hands down beats the CK armour slice (still got it as a back up) but much nicer to use!
Great video, it use to scare the shit out of me plugging into a live busbar 😰
Hi Garry, from old spark from the 60's. I was shit scared at the age of 18 making connections to live busbars with no gloves,eye, protection or any special kit or screwdrivers just a normal plastic one's no insulated cutters either very primitive, there's a lot to be said about modern health and safety and safe isolation, I've had the power switch on whilst I was working on industrial sites 3 times, but escaped, but came close to death twice working on TV's with my Heart gone in to AF and lying on the floor for longest was 20 minute waiting for my heart to go back to normal rhythm, yes a lot to be said about check and double check, I've been lucky some people I've worked with have not. Take care everyone one lapsed concentration may be your last.
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Man I hate those little tapoffs. Seen many of them pop cause they haven’t put away the unused phases correctly. I love the longer side opening hinged ones though. So much easier to open them up for getting R1+R2s.
We always do the tapoffs as the DB though. More certs to do though but it’s its probably cause we stuff them with loads of separate circuits though 🤣
Great vid as always 🔥
Hey great vid. What brand is the buss bar trunking?
What music were you playing around 29:00?
Great video. Can you post a link to the g clamps you used?
I seem to have missed the bit where you dead tested(R1+R2 and I.R. test).I also didn't see you doing a phase rotation test or a test on the RCD
Which brand of crimp pins & accessories do you use? Yours looked solid whereas some of the ones I’ve previously purchased are really thin metal with no current ratings/specs.
You should get a camping table in your van, to help you work of the floor ? :D
I wonder how long that wobbly Unistrut frame lasted in an environment where they have forklifts driving around all day. I give it 3 month, tops.
DO YOU EVER GET ASKED TO ALSO TEST TAPOFFS AS PART OF EICR’s in industrial/ commercial premises??
Another great video, I was looking at that plugin unit would the bus bar tails not of gone in the bottom of the MCB allowing the load cables to sweep up to the top? Looking forward to the next video regarding the tools you use.
That frame would have been flattened by a FLT in the first week where I used to work.
What is the maximum size armoured you can gland into these? Thanks
Would it not be best to put the labels on the front so if someone was trying to find stuff they can say zoom in with their phone camera to identify what they say before even going up there?
The last busbar trunking I installed had four unidentified connections in the incoming terminal box so we looked at one of the plug in boxes to determine the order of connection and then connected the tails from a 500Kva transformer accordingly,only to find out that for some reason inside plug in box the neutral pin was carried over by an internal busbar to the other side of the unit,never found out why but it was a swine having to alter the tails
Where is your hard hat setup from ?
why they are using heavy duty SWA cable instead of SY cable or could it be just future proofing and having the extra mechanical protection
SY cable. What you on about. You should watch the latest John ward video.
quite funny the algo didnt get the song ^^
Where’s the videos gone dude miss them 😭
The trouble with using tape to mark cores is over time with warm hot weather the tape becomes sticky and starts to come off. Best to buy pvc sleeving looks better and no problems and quicker to install.
Why you do not use heavy duty cable with colour marked conductors? Marking white cores with individual coloured tape consume an unneccessary amount of time and leads to fails. Here an example of SWA cable with coloured conductors :
uk.rs-online.com/web/p/armoured-cable/1854010/?relevancy-data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searchHistory=%7B%22enabled%22%3Atrue%7D.
I like the busbar system, one of my customer got the old moeller(eaton) 630A system . One of the annoying point ist the hight of the brakers /fuses which need always a ladder or a lift , and believe me no such equipment is on hand if are in need.
By the way neat work, thump up!
@@residualelectrical Could be better to use coloured permanent marker if your code allows. Should work great on white.
About fucking time... I was getting sick of watching house bashers. Except for Nagy of course
what's the best screwdrivers you've used
@@residualelectrical cheers for the quick reply
When's the next video out?
If you're only using one phase from the 3 phase incoming supply isn't that basically just single phase anyway?
@@residualelectrical So why the need for a 3 phase breaker, why not just use a 32a single phase?? Sorry, i'm new and confused lol. Love the channel but again - get a kneeler!
@@inputimmersion9577 you did not watch video good i think .. 38:40 he fitted 2 single pole 16A Brakers and one 32 amp .. so 2 sockets 16A 240V and one 32A socket 3x400V+N i asume ?
@@kittsdiy I'm asking why, if he's only using one phase + n from a 3 phase breaker, why couldn't he just use a regular single phase breaker? One phase + n is just 240 + n so surely coulda just used a single phase supply and breaker?
@@inputimmersion9577 where ? doesn't do this what you say ! There is a bus bar above what passes 3 fases + neutral + earth . For the 2 commando sockets 16A he taps in L1 +N + PE with a 16A single pole braker in the box ( he only shows making de 3 fase box with 3 pole braker - the others he made off camera with single pole 16A ). For the Command socket of 32A het uses L1-L2-L3 +N + PE and uses a 3 pole breaker . So 32A socket has 3 fases available for use what wil be
plugged in ( conveyor belt with 3 phase motor i asume ) check 39:01 see the 2 single pole 16A brakers ( with 3 core cable i asume L & N ) en 1 32A braker ( with 5 core cable to the 32A socket L1-L2-L3-N-PE )
@@kittsdiy At one point in the video he says he's going to use one phase from the 3 phase supply on the 3 phase breaker. Maybe i misheard but that's what i gather from the video.
M12 cut off tool for SWA
that busbar looks like trunking, is that a plastic cover on top of it?
No it’s -Canalis busbar- the covers are plastic tho.
Great job, but I bet that in a month that frame work will be destroyed by a forklift driver! 👍🤦♂️ I have seen so many things broken by drivers not paying attention. That is why they have the big plastic barrels around the vertical I-Beams and at the end of each rack.
@@residualelectrical That’s good hate to see all that hard work end up in the bin after a crash. Great job. 👍
35:35 no video's for a month ? are you on holiday ?
You will be back in the future. They will hit the single fase outlets with an forklift. But hey.. Job security
Well if they bang their forklifts into things that's their problem really
You weren't clipped in in the hoist!!
@@residualelectrical thanks that clears it a lot.
Heat shrink
4:51 hmhm now plastic boxes with brakers ? tought uk it al need to be metal ? Ferrules on fine standed i also do mostley ..but on cage clamp ( not a screw hitting the cable but 2 plates ) brakers it's actually not realy needed ( but i agree it's neater ) The pins on the multi-solidcore i don't really get ... also not really a must .. i've seen some fit ferrules on multi-solid-core ( you guys call this stranded ...but they are bundled solid cores .. just to make te cable little easyer to bend an manipulate ).. Meter tales in uk are also multi-solid-core i think ? 25mm² for example never seen one put a ferrule or pin on those before putting in the main switch .
We even use fine standed 16-25-35-50-70mm² inside fuseboards to bus bars ..much easyer to handle .. of course we use ferrules or crimp lugs on these .. Anyway neat job ..as always :-) We never use "armoured" cable ( unless burried in the ground ) .. seems a typical uk thing .. also we would have used a 4 pole 32A braker and 20A double pole braker on those boxes that plug to the bars ...and some XVB or XGB ( lsoh cable ) ( similar to NYY-J in germany/holland ) non armoured . And standard plastic cable glands M20 or M25 etc .. seems a lot extra work messing with the armoured .
Unfortunately we’re behind in a lot of ways , yep keep sticking swa,in when a good double insulated cable would do especially if it’s on ladder rack ect or even under lid..funny installed lots big submersible pumps and they have double insulated multi core cables..always put ferrules on stranded cables neater...
SWA is always used in South Africa for industrial installations.
The "metal consumer units" reg only applies in domestic. In practice industrial DBs are usually metal anyway but things like busbar tapoffs and industrial sockets with provision for local breakers are often plastic.
With DIY in your name. You’ve got a lot to say.
You need a table bud. Your knees are going to be trash in a few years. Cheers