Wiring in spain is in conduits under the tiled floors, one main conduit to a room and all sockets stared off from it. It is imposible to run a cable back to the fuse board so how can I localy eath an individual socket.
Please help.
2006-12-18 21:55:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Do It Yourself (DIY)
Grief! It's like modern UK systems that use Protective Multiple Earthing (PME). The neutral and earth are tied together at the distribution board so providing there are no wiring faults the neutral is always at earth. The system relies on the incoming power from the power company being earthed at the distribution board. Usually to copper piping. Older UK systems had a separate earth above which the neutral would "float" about 2 Volts, which was a good source of free electricity btw.
2006-12-19 04:02:37 · answer #1 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Earthing your sockets is easy, you just need an earth rod, piece of steel, or a steel peg, hammer it into the ground (careful there is no burried cables etc) and it will then 'earth' any electrical current circuit, run a wire off this rod to the nearest electrical conduit. Then strap a wire near each socket, to the conduits to loop it to all of your sockets. Are you planning to use 'English' 3 pin sockets? As all this is a lot of work for nothing really!
If you look inside the plugs of your spanish appliances, they may not have a 3rd earth wire! They are two pin plugs that only have a live and a neutral wire, I think! So you don't need an earth wire anyway.
An 'earth' as it's name suggests is purely a means for the 'wrong' or faulty current to go down into la terra.
You mentioned conduits in the floors, if they are made of metal, then they are 'earth rods' in their own right, you could attach an 'earth wire' to them! They should all be bolted/threaded together and will become an earth circuit (if they aren't already)
The Spanish are generally good builders, I take an interest in their sites when I'm out there on my hols! They just do things different to us.
These conduits run through the building, which sits on the ground, i.e earth!
There is no need to do all of this anyway. What will you gain?
2006-12-18 22:40:14 · answer #2 · answered by My name's MUD 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is probably an earth built into the socket. Here in germany we also use a two pin plug system and I thought that there was no earth. However, the socket has a little metal clip on it that acts as an earth when the plug is inserted. It is probably something similar in Spain.
The D.A. who is a qualified electritician is wrong. The clips are the earth in the German type socket. My girlfriends father is a qualified German electro engineer and he has explained this to me, and warned me not to paint over the clips and make sure the socket is completely covered when painting as this negates the earth. This is the German Schuko system. see below. So much for our qualified electrician's advice.
Schuko (IPA: /'ʃuko/) is the common colloquial name for a system of domestic AC power plugs and sockets that is also known as "Type F" or "CEE 7/4". A Schuko plug features two round pins of 4.8 mm diameter (19 mm long, centers 19 mm apart) for the live and neutral contacts, plus two flat contact areas on the top and bottom side of the plug for protective earth (ground). Schuko sockets form a cavity into which the plug is inserted. Schuko plugs and sockets are symmetric AC connectors.
2006-12-18 22:11:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You do not require an earth on a spanish wiring system, it works entirely differently from british systems, in fact we are only now catching up with their system, which relies on a 2 wire system controlled by rcd's and mcb's ( trip switches ), and the little metal clips on the sockets are not a type of earth as mentioned above, they are only to help keep the plug tops tight in the sockets.
Ok smart ***, if you know it all then tell where in your two pin sockets does the earth wire connect, no matter if you had 20 little metal clips you still don't have a means of earthing because you only have 2 pins and not 3 i don't want to get into a pissing contest with you but i don't have to copy my advice from a book or a web page.And we are talking about spain and not Her Flick country
2006-12-18 22:39:43 · answer #4 · answered by Sparky 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I had the same problem here in the states as I have an old house. I have replaced my outlets with a GCFI outlets. These are self contained and will individually shutoff is a fault is detected. Thes are what most people use around water sources but I use em everywhere.
2006-12-19 14:39:32 · answer #5 · answered by acwitte_99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't. You may find this hard to believe but Spanish domestic electrical practices are better than ours (UK)
Do not attempt to earth any appliance in a Spanish residence.
2006-12-18 22:07:36 · answer #6 · answered by Not Ecky Boy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Its problems like this im glad to be an american :) ....EARTH? haha, we call it grounding. The only thing i like about Europe is that u use 220 instead of 110, use less amps.... glad i dont live in europe
2006-12-19 11:47:14 · answer #7 · answered by TheDiciple 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the more stuff you earth/bond the more chance you have of getting shocks.if there is no earth tag don't earth.get your appliances checked
2006-12-18 21:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by bastaad 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Copper rod into ground push, wire to plug put, 1 tile loose make cover hole, keep moist, piss on it ever week, that do trick.
2006-12-18 22:08:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
theres no need to your more likely to get a belt with earths
2006-12-19 09:14:16 · answer #10 · answered by jk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋