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Just started it and bought 3 months supply for B1000. Is that expensive?

. .Don't know how much you know about 3 phase but the most difficult part I found to start with was getting an electrician who actually knew about and had installed 3 phase. I studied a little on 3 phase first year engineering college, a million years ago, so didn't remember much. I ended up finding a guy who installed 3 phase in factories. If you're out in the sticks, hard to find a 3 phase electrician, but the guy who knows the most is Crossy. 🙂

@Yellowtail . I've got a 3 phase supply to my house. I am only using 3 phase multipoint instant water heaters. I treat the 3 phase supply as 3 single phases. Give us a yell if I can help.

Just ordering a 30mA RCBO and connectors. Thanks again. :)

Just ordered one. Thanks. I bought one in Bali years ago but had to disassemble it and put in different suitcases to take back to Aus as is illegal.

Would something like this be OK?

Time for a swim brrrrr.

As I said before the PEA power first comes to a CU on the wall then used to split with one phase to the garage. Because the power varies up to 235v and fish tanks in the garage, I installed 220v stabalisers in the house and also a genset and grabbed a house feed (which was to be used for an airconditioner in the lounge room) and replaced unregulated feed with the house regulated feed (that's the cct. breaker to the Al cable). The only things now on the unregulated power is my 60m aquifer pump and equipment. I want to also feed the pump etc with regulated supply from the house. To do this I need to rearrange the Al cable and house feed (yellow conduit) to the pump box. How do I add pigtails to the Al cable or how to get it to the pump box? I know they are dissimilar metals, but Cu pigtails. The pump controller is showing 230v but does get up to 235v.

Thank you all very much for your replies. After returning home I blew out the garage CU again and fiddled around and, like magic, the fault seems to have disappeared, waiting for the worst time to come back again. I remember when I worked on the remote island of Milingimbi red ants used to cause all sorts of strange electrical problems.

First year Telecom. TIT all us country guys stayed in a big boarding house near the Engineering College in Homebush, a suburb of Sydney. There was about 60 of us pimplly faced young bucks, soon to be introduced to beer, beer, beer, nurses and song. Someone had a hand cranked ring generator and we all held hands in a circle while someone cranked the handle. The circle would soon be broken. 🙂

No I checked that. Before I left to fix my car, I turned off all the garage breakers again with only the garage MCB on and the 8 A went away. When I get back home I will again check every cct. From the garage CU. What started all this was random tripping of the RCBO. I chased it down to the pool pump motor and changed the start capacitor, which fixed the problem for a few hours, then the intermittant tripping came back.

I changed the RCBO to a normal 15A breaker and breaker didn't trip but measured 8A with the clamp meter and no pumps etc except the garage MCB on. Will put this in the 'Too Hard Basket' and go and fix my car back discs while thinking (which is difficult when you're older.) 🙂

Just a question on Contact Break Spark Analysis: when the RCBO trips sometimes there is no contact spark visible and sometimes when the contact breakes there is a spark visible. What sort of current is needed for a contact spark?

If you go down to Na Glua, near the fish market on the RHS there's a real watchmaker hiding in the store back. He used to fix my Grandfather clock. Not sure if he's still there, may have retired.

Replaced the MCB and RCBBO tripped. Bugger. Tomorrow I'll replace the RCBO with a breaker.

Our garage is hot and probably 100% humidity alot. All metal tools etc go rusty from the humidity me thinks. Just off to Kuchinari to see if they have a MCB for the garage CU. If not, my stick it in the microway. 🙂

I hear the caddies are 'special'.

There's no load connected in the shed CU, only the main circuit breaker is ON, all circuit breakers removed and main breaker trips RCBO.

Yep. I always buy the most expensive I can find, but still crappy.

Trying to isolate which electrical cct. is causing random trips of a RCBO. With all the feed breakers (to greenhouse pumps, aquaphonics pumps and air pumps, pool pump and chlorinator disconnected), the main breaker in the garage CU still trips intermittantly. I blew out all the red ants etc from the garage CU and thought the problem was fixed, but RCBO still tripping, but not nearly as much. This only started this wet season. I don't really need the breaker to be an RCBO but installed it before the underground feed to the shed as the underground feed is Al cable (which I now know is a no no) but 7 odd years ago the local electrician said OK. The circuit: from the 3 phase mains PEA supply to a CU on the 2m block fence, then splits underground to the house CU via 3 single phase stabalisers, then a phase to the RCBO on the fence, then underground to the shed CU. So to my questions: 1. Can the main shed CU breaker go leaky and should I change it? 2. Should I replace the wall RCBO with a normal MCB? I don't think the Al cable feed to the shed is a problem, at the moment, even though the conduit probably has water in it, because the Al cable is double insulated and thicker than the recommended underground cable. This cable will be changed when I install solar on the shed. Thanks.

Ordered one yesterday and chastised the Mrs for her strong cleaning ethics (no, that would have backfired). 🙂

Broke the shower pipe off. 😞 Some time ago there was a post on the best way to remove the broken metal pipe shower insert from the PVC pipe. Anyone got a suggestion on how to do it? My way would be to insert two crossed over flat-blade screwdrivers and turn.

Better hurry up if you get our run off water from the Kalasin area. Very heavy last night and took about 4" out of the pool this morning. Not as many pool lowerings this year compared to last year me thinks.

Here's another one: A yaabaa user in our village was going to kill his family as he hadn't received his B10000 and he needs his crazy meds.

True has a mobile network tower about 300m from the compound we live in. So I think True would be the prefered network connection. 3BB is fibre to the router. Sorry for the mixup. So probably need a True SIM card.