Some interesting info yesterday from a northern power grid guy. Came to inspect my feed as a precursor to a fast electric charge point to be installed early next year.
I was slightly surprised they needed to visit as the feed stated 100A on the main fuse, but as the guy explained 100A doesnt actually mean you have a 100A fuse it just means its the max rated fuse that can be used.
I actually had a 60A fuse installed and he upgraded to 80A. Nice guy and we had a chat about various infrastructure things.
- Firstly northern power grid is manually checking every house fuse and switching to 80A from whatever you have!! Quite an undertaking!
- Secondly, 3 phase is being reintroduced for new builds and also old houses !! I found this bizarre as i've still got that linked in my head to industrial places and if you had lathes and big equipment in your garage!! Seems they think 3 separate 80A feeds is better than uprating the single one higher than 80A. I guess it makes sense to split car charging off to its own feed for future proofing.
- Thirdly, he mentioned alot of properties still do not have their own isolation fuse and are chained down the street!!! jesus!!
I was slightly surprised they needed to visit as the feed stated 100A on the main fuse, but as the guy explained 100A doesnt actually mean you have a 100A fuse it just means its the max rated fuse that can be used.
I actually had a 60A fuse installed and he upgraded to 80A. Nice guy and we had a chat about various infrastructure things.
- Firstly northern power grid is manually checking every house fuse and switching to 80A from whatever you have!! Quite an undertaking!
- Secondly, 3 phase is being reintroduced for new builds and also old houses !! I found this bizarre as i've still got that linked in my head to industrial places and if you had lathes and big equipment in your garage!! Seems they think 3 separate 80A feeds is better than uprating the single one higher than 80A. I guess it makes sense to split car charging off to its own feed for future proofing.
- Thirdly, he mentioned alot of properties still do not have their own isolation fuse and are chained down the street!!! jesus!!