unsure wiring to storage

15 years ago

Recently I made a "shed" in terms - but its actually its own independent structure made from brick/concrete. As this property lacks a garage, basement, or even an attic it was desperately needed. The "shed" has 8 electrical outlets - 1 inside and 1 outside light, and has its own breaker box. I live on a property that has been in the family for decades now - and the word from higher up told me to run an underground cable from the shed to where the old well was (which happens to be on the other side of the property arrg - quite a few days of work with a shovel, pitch fork, and a chain saw)- and wire it to the cable that supplied the old water pump with electricity. and then re-connect the old cable in the breaker box in the house. (as I have redone all the sockets and switches inside the house I have become very familiar with this particular house)

The color code that the cable which ran the old water pump is unlike any scheme in the house (the pump cable being wiring from when the house was constructed). European color code (the 3/4 colors I've become accustomed to) Brown or Black-(hot), Blue (common), and Green/yellow (ground). But the water pump cable is Brown/Black/Blue. We disconnected the electricity on our solar panel water system a long time ago. In the breaker box I found the Black and Brown wires and wired them accordingly to the breaker/timer from the solar panels. connected the cables from the water pump and the shed with an outdoor power socket and the electricity that is running to the shed seems fine. However I am apprehensive because the 3'rd wire (the Blue) I connected to ground just by process of elimination (the blue wire does not seem to run to the breaker box inside the house - just the black and brown).

as I've said, the electricity to the shed seems fine but as the ground contacts are external in a europlug socket I SURE wouldn't wouldn't want any current running to them. But I am also sure no hot wire is running to ground either.

that leaves my assumption correct as the blue was ground on the old water pump, right? and what is the best way to know for sure?

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irishgi
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15 years ago
just as a precaution, Ive been searching other threads and shed wiring turns out to be more of a discussion of how to run the electricity to the shed (how I did this was on demand from higher up also). I wanted to just use pvc tubing, but it seemed not to be an option to the man with the final word. so in the end - I had plenty of sand and concrete left over from the construction of the shed - so after I had the wiring that was deemed fit for burial, and after I dug a trench on average about 16 inches - I filled the bottom with concrete, used 1 inch plastic tubing containing the wiring, put more concrete over the top to more than cover, and filled the trench with dirt. I am sure nothing else can pass through it - as the tubing bended in the concrete, and I'd HATE to be the one to take it out of the ground - but this is Spain after all ................... Im just more worried about how normal well water pumps are wired, if they normally are grounded at all, and if my assumptions are correct on that blue wire being ground - in any case the first 3 letters in assume are .......
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