bertsmobile1
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Re: MTD Yardman Transaxle Rebuild
Know how that goes.
Down here they have banned fuses so you have to wire in breakers.
They have also made ground leakage isolation switches manditory.
So I got the old house inspected as an office & workshop and the first electrician told me he needed to replace the fuse box for a cost of $ 3000.
We had replaced all of the old rusty steel water pipes with plastic so they could not start work till we fitted a ground spike as down here the water pipes are used for grounding the power supply.
However it is illegal to fit a new ground spike to an old box with fuses.
We pointed out that the workshop has a 4 wire 3 phase supply , the 4th wire being a common ground and in a factory grounding is done by that wire.
The reply was this offically a decommissioned dwelling so has to comply with residential regulations.
Solution, I changed suppliers to a discount online reseller who had no ground crew and they simply sent out a contractor to replace the main supply fuse.
As for other services, the landlords new house is about 500 yards away from this one & when he asked for a telephone connection the phone company decided that he had to run the wire form the other side of the farm.
So that meant digging a 2 mile trench & installing a private pole to connect to a phone line that goes out every time the river rises to full height.
Cost was going to be $ 65,000.
Solution was to leave the phone line connected to here and fit a microwave link between here & there, total cost $ 450.
Power to the new house was similar so he bought an old diesel generator ( from a mine ) and installed that for the builders to use and had the house wired for both mains & generator power which was fine while the house was being built.
However when it came time to connect to the grid, the power company insisted he connect via overhead wiring with 40' steel poles because this is in a flood plain and bushfire region.
That would have been 5 poles at $ 6,000 each, so he spent $12,000 on a solar system, problem solved except the power authority ( government department ) demanded to do an inspection to confirm he did not have a connection to the grid.
They then condemned the connection to the shed ( which I did ) because it did not comply with wiring regulations for the grid, that it was not connected to
Know how that goes.
Down here they have banned fuses so you have to wire in breakers.
They have also made ground leakage isolation switches manditory.
So I got the old house inspected as an office & workshop and the first electrician told me he needed to replace the fuse box for a cost of $ 3000.
We had replaced all of the old rusty steel water pipes with plastic so they could not start work till we fitted a ground spike as down here the water pipes are used for grounding the power supply.
However it is illegal to fit a new ground spike to an old box with fuses.
We pointed out that the workshop has a 4 wire 3 phase supply , the 4th wire being a common ground and in a factory grounding is done by that wire.
The reply was this offically a decommissioned dwelling so has to comply with residential regulations.
Solution, I changed suppliers to a discount online reseller who had no ground crew and they simply sent out a contractor to replace the main supply fuse.
As for other services, the landlords new house is about 500 yards away from this one & when he asked for a telephone connection the phone company decided that he had to run the wire form the other side of the farm.
So that meant digging a 2 mile trench & installing a private pole to connect to a phone line that goes out every time the river rises to full height.
Cost was going to be $ 65,000.
Solution was to leave the phone line connected to here and fit a microwave link between here & there, total cost $ 450.
Power to the new house was similar so he bought an old diesel generator ( from a mine ) and installed that for the builders to use and had the house wired for both mains & generator power which was fine while the house was being built.
However when it came time to connect to the grid, the power company insisted he connect via overhead wiring with 40' steel poles because this is in a flood plain and bushfire region.
That would have been 5 poles at $ 6,000 each, so he spent $12,000 on a solar system, problem solved except the power authority ( government department ) demanded to do an inspection to confirm he did not have a connection to the grid.
They then condemned the connection to the shed ( which I did ) because it did not comply with wiring regulations for the grid, that it was not connected to
