Where can I get 1.5mm brown coloured cable?

Discharged · Mar 13, 2012

I've searched the usual places, but can I find straight forward live 1.5mm core cable? Nope! I need this to avoid having to strip perfectly good cables just to get the live one one for some small installation work I am doing.

Any ideas please?

gaz76 · Mar 13, 2012

do you mean, brown singles?? try this Singles Cable 6491X Conduit Brown 1.5mm

Discharged · Mar 13, 2012

Yes, thanks, that's what I meant (didn't know the terminology). Usually shop in cpc farnell. Many thanks.

Geordie Spark · Mar 13, 2012

I think Screwfix sell it too. Maybe not solid-core, but stranded core is likely.

Discharged · Mar 13, 2012

I just saw that this is solid, I think. I need stranded.

Discharged · Mar 13, 2012

I found it on cpc in the end.

Amp David · Mar 13, 2012

Whats it needed for?

Discharged · Mar 13, 2012

Switchgear.

Amp David · Mar 13, 2012

Tri rated would be best suited to this i reckon fitted with bootlace ferrules.

Discharged · Mar 13, 2012

Maybe I'm describing it incorrectly. I'm wiring in 230v - this is a temperature controller that I am wiring up inside an IP rated enclosure. Where my mains power comes in, I split the cable - one goes to feed one circuit and the other to one other circuit. Neither is 'on' at the same time. My need is for just that little bit extra cable to allow me to create a junction, using a three-way waco (I think that's the jobbie) to do so. Maybe this is not switching gear, but that's the closest I can describe it to you. Sorry for any confusion.

EoinConway · Mar 13, 2012

1.5mm Single Stranded Brown £12.80/100

Discharged said:
I just saw that this is solid, I think. I need stranded.

Discharged · Mar 13, 2012

EoinConway said:
1.5mm Single Stranded Brown £12.80/100

Blimey!

Discharged · Mar 20, 2012

I'm more than happy with the cable I received. Question: why do the strands in this cable appear to be of a thicker gauge/size than that found in the cables in some 3183Y 1.5mm rubber sheathed?

I'm finding it impossible to insert the latter into a three way Wago.

Richard Burns · Mar 20, 2012

Cable for fixed wiring is rough stranded, presumably the same as the singles you got.
Flex (3183Y) is flexible cable and comes with fine stranded copper wire to allow flexibility of the cable.

Wago connectors of the push in type are not designed to take flexible cable, only rough stranded or solid.
To connect fine stranded cable you must use the lever connectors.