Thai regulations on cable height - PEA/TOT

[Formaleins]

I have searched around but cannot find anything definitive on this or any legal requirements (but there must be buried somewhere). Does anyone know what the minimum clearance height of both the PEA electrical mains cables and the TOT comms. cables must be from the ground. Also, where is the "Ground" decided? centre of the road, the part of the road directly above the road etc.?

 

I have a number of cables, some are PEA and some are TOT all sharing the same poles. They all run across the entrance to my place. The land we have is stepped down from the road surface by about 3 metres - so if you can imagine, the road is a sort of embankment about 3 metres up from the base land that surrounds it. We then have a sloping driveway that drops down from the road height into our place. It slopes down around 5 metres in to cover the 3 metre drop from the road. However, TOT/PEA stuck poles along the road - the one nearest our place is "supported" (badly) by a downcoming steel cable at an agle that actually is on our land. Yes, PEA stuck a cable fixing 6 foot deep into our land without permission and told us to just disconnect it at a later date!

The problem I am seeing now is that as usual here, the poles are just sunk into the clay - no footings, no concrete to support it. So over time, the poles all end up on a severe slant and this causes the cables to sag quite a bit. So now we have a situation where any vehicle of 3m in height cannot get access into our land as they are going to hit the cables stretched across the opening of our driveway.

3M seems a bit low to me, and to be honest, if you have a longer vehicle then that height decreases due to the angle of the truck.

 

I would like to find out how much height they were supposed to give us initially for clearance, and also, seeing they never had permission to tie steel cable trusses into our land, would that likely be a bargaining point to get the cables raised? Obviously we will need to speak to them at some point but I would like to go with a bit of fore knowledge in case they try to fob us off.

 

Cheers

[bankruatsteve]

If there are any "rules" they would be interpreted by the local PEA anyway.  In your case, it seems that they would want to rectify the situation so best just to go in with a photo and a smile.  TOT will just use whatever is there.

 

Edit:  I take it the poles with the problem are not the ones supporting the cable to your home?  If so, that would be your problem.

Edited February 11, 2019 by bankruatsteve

[Formaleins]

53 minutes ago, bankruatsteve said:

If there are any "rules" they would be interpreted by the local PEA anyway.  In your case, it seems that they would want to rectify the situation so best just to go in with a photo and a smile.  TOT will just use whatever is there.

 

Edit:  I take it the poles with the problem are not the ones supporting the cable to your home?  If so, that would be your problem.

You are correct, the poles support a load of fibre optic stuff from TOT (which really is the biggest headache as these are the lowest hanging of them all) The PEA/EGAT stuff is just 240V piped from one village to the next. If they had stuck with the same height poles all the way it would have been no problem, but the pole before my entrance carries an HV transformer, the voltage is then stepped down and carried along lower poles.

Edited February 11, 2019 by Formaleins

[Crossy]

As above, take photos along to PEA, they may want a "consideration" to do something before the pole falls down.

 

We have similarly low hanging wires, we also had a long bamboo pole with a Y shaped bit on the top, use it to lift up the cables when tall vehicles need access.

 

[NCC1701A]

2 hours ago, Formaleins said:

Does anyone know what the minimum clearance height of both the PEA electrical mains cables and the TOT comms.

Zero meters. This is based on empirical observation and evidence.