esb enhanced supply

davelerave

are any sparkies here familiar with this .it's an 80amp domestic supply instead of the regular 63

dingding

Why do you need it, what do you want to know about it.

each Kw uses 4 amps, so a 80A supply will provide up to 20Kw where as a 63 A will sullly approx 16Kw

davelerave

a customer of mine has paid for it .i want to know if the esb tails and main fuse can be upgraded to suit this supply.unfortunately i dont have the latest 'esb code of practice book' if there is one post 2002 and my local reci boss knows nothing.it's a 16kva/80a single phase supply .i spoke to another sparkie who had a customer paid for it but he wired as standard with 16sq tails and 63a fuse

dingding

sorry, cant help

davelerave

to answer your question though the esb application form states that you can run double the usual number of electric showers with the enhanced supply which would neccessitate a bigger main fuse and tails rather than the usual setup with a non-priority shower controller and a 63amp supply.if there is nothing in the esb code of practice i assume then it's just a better quality of supply

antoinolachtnai

that sounds handy, i could get rid of a meter if i had that. Does it cost extra per month?

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davelerave

it's for new installs 400 extra i think

Reaver772

davelerave wrote:

esb enhanced supply

When i read the thread title all i could think of was the Esb saying "We have a new enhanced supply just give us more money and we'll stop all the constant power surges and blackouts"

JohnBoy

anyone know if you can upgrade to it on an existing supply?

we have chronic bad esb at home, impossible to run big power tools reliably (welder, compressor)

rooferPete

Hi John Boy,

A couple of friends of mine set up their own business behind the house using all the tools you mentioned and then some.

The problem they had was they were drawing down so much power the neighbours television wouldn't work, as you can imagine not good for neighbourly love / respect even

They had three phase installed, it cost a fair bit at the time but solved the problem, I am not sure but I think a herd number can reduce such costs considerably

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JohnBoy

Our problem is that turning on the immersion nearly plunges us into darkness, we just don't have enough power, for a domestic supply, never mind me out the back hacking land rovers to bits. especially as these are all tools that can run on a 13 amp socket elsewhere, just not at my house.

There's just too many houses on the same transformer, there's a new transformer across the road, but we can't go onto that for some reason (despite the fact that there's only one house on it) we have to get a new one again??????

We're promised the new transformer, but god knows when that will happen, if twas a business I'd prolly get the three phase in alright, but this is very much a hobby, God knows what I'd get up to if I could even draw the full 63A at 220V.

antoinolachtnai

Well, upping the fuse on the supply to 80A isn't going to help you if that's your problem. All I can suggest is to heat your water off the central heating ... (Note: I am not an electrician and I don't play one on the 'Net.)

JohnBoy

Yeah, I tried asking the other 8 houses to do that too, useless bastards couldn't hear me over the noise of their electric showers

Builderwoman!

dingding wrote:

Why do you need it, what do you want to know about it.

each Kw uses 4 amps, so a 80A supply will provide up to 20Kw where as a 63 A will sullly approx 16Kw

Anyone know how much the esb charge you for an upgrade to enhanced supply please?