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Discuss For Wirepuller in the UK Electrical Forum area at ElectriciansForums.net
Ooh it would be interesting to see the other end of the cooker circuit
Lol, I did an EICR yesterday and the "cooker circuit" was a 2.5mm RFC for only 1 single socket. Waste of cable if you ask me.
Essentially a 5mm radial then!
NO, it is a 2.5mm RFC only serving a single 13A socket for a plug in cooker. A bit over the top when just a 2.5mm radial would have done the same job.
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Essentially a 5mm radial then!
If it is only serving one point then it would be better described as a parallel feed or just 2 cables in parallel.
I take it this is in response to the “ring too long” thread where I stated I used rings for lighting.
I could guarantee the lighting rings or any circuit I installed would pass any test you could throw at them.
As said in that thread, I chose to over engineer just about everything. Through my job T&E cost next to bugger all. A few extra yards of cable made no odds to me.
I’ve never found the “official” derating for a parallel feed. Years ago I was told 85% per cable. That tallies with the figure given in the NFPA-NEC.
Try and write that on a test sheet! I know what you mean Dave, yes you are correct that a single point of consumption in this case would class as a parallel path. How would everyone else test it if it came up? Is it a RFC if only one point is served or is it a Ring??? Well it is a ring at the DB regardless of how many points it serves???? (ok it is a parallel circuit, but it is not 5mm)
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