QUOTE(ketan1785 @ Oct 2 2014, 11:06 AM)
Hi,
My house got this shared TNB cabling that provide electricity for the whole stretch of 9 terrace houses.
Last night this shared TNB cabling had minor explosion, caught fire and tripping the electricity for few houses.
The TNB technician came and replace something.
But i suspect its usage of electricity by neighbours that caused the overload thus the fire.
So the technician is not solving the root cause.
It is only the matter of time before the shared cabling trip and catch fire again.
Is there anything i can do?
it's old, but i have to add something.My house got this shared TNB cabling that provide electricity for the whole stretch of 9 terrace houses.
Last night this shared TNB cabling had minor explosion, caught fire and tripping the electricity for few houses.
The TNB technician came and replace something.
But i suspect its usage of electricity by neighbours that caused the overload thus the fire.
So the technician is not solving the root cause.
It is only the matter of time before the shared cabling trip and catch fire again.
Is there anything i can do?
the overload isn't cause by sagging voltage because of too much use from neighbor, but from overvoltage sent by TNB.
you can easily check by a multimeter. you need a logging meter to get the voltage pattern, but a multimeter is good enough for initial measurement.
usually the voltage sag will happen around 8-10pm and during midday during 12-2pm. check what's your voltage during that time, preferably at all 3 phase.
tnb can't supply more than 260v by regulation. my lab usually get 235 and sometimes 255v, which a power transmission engineer mentioned to me before, is perfectly normal with tnb.
if your neighbor is using more power than usual, or if you're one of the last people in the chain, you could see the voltage swing from 190-ish to 210v within a minute. if you're further up the chain you could see quite high voltage around 230v. if you frequently get >250v especially during the high usage time (refer above) then there's a high chance you're at the top of the chain and there's higher possibility overvoltage will happen to you and bump the voltage over >260v and burn your equipment.
in which case if it happens you could claim from TNB for damages.
i've successfully forced TNB to rewire the line to my parents house (and to half of the village) because it's at the end of the line and voltage sags below <200v causing lights to dim and sometimes can't be started at all. took quite an effort.
Oct 18 2014, 08:13 AM

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