4 core

  1. PhilWarr

    LED Security Light with PIR & 4 Core

    Hi, Does anyone know where I can get an LED security light with PIR, that also has a 4core cable for an over-ride switch? Thanks
  2. B

    Wiring an Optima G4 Alarm panel to a Reson8 bell box using existing 4 core cable

    I am replacing an existing old bell box with a Reson 8 bell box 8EP420. My alarm panel is a Optima G4. They are connected via a 4 core cable. The existing panel wiring is as follows: Panel Bell box Strobe+ (no connection) A link between T and A Strobe- (yellow)...
  3. C

    Best method to calculate 4 core SWA current rating for two pairs of 1PH line conductors

    Hi, I have a Victron Multiplus-II 5kVA inverter/charger with Pylontech US5000 batteries installed in my house along with a 6.8kWp PV array and associated charge controllers. This installation has full DNO G99 approval and was installed to BS7671 and has been running great for about 18 months...
  4. V

    Led floodlight to exsisting 4 core flex

    Am fitting a new pir led floodlight . The exsisting light is connected to 4 core round flexible cable, core colours green/yellow, blue, brown and black . Should i use the green/yellow , blue and brown and just terminate the black Many thanks
  5. G

    UFH - 4 core old and 2 core new Actuators

    Replacing 15 year old FAR Italian manifolds (2 downstairs, 1 up) with new Warmup units. However, old actuators have 4 core and new only have 2 core. Can someone please explain what the additional 2 cores are used for in the old actuators and how to modify the wiring for the new, and perhaps if...
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    Electrician Jobs Paralleling swa 4 core to increase CCC

    Hello fellow sparks, I have a 400 metre drum of swa xlpe 4 core x 6mm cable I need to install 8 x 230 volt x 45 amp supplies to storage units distance from DB of 40 metres down to 35 metres. I propose to pair up the cores within each cable giving me 8 x runs of 2 core 12mm cable colour sleeved...
  7. S

    Ring Final Circuit wired in 4 core SWA

    Hi Gents, Have an existing circuit at a warehouse where a single 4mm 4core SWA has been used as a Ring Final Circuit. Two cores are in connectors in the back of the socket outlets thus creating a ring. The SWA is therefore the sole means of earthing. There are No banjo's at the sockets and the...
  8. T

    4 core fp200 ring circuit

    Came across a 2.5mm fp200 4 core cable used as part of a ring today, am I right in thinking this isn't an acceptable method as there will be only 1 earth wire in the cable ??
  9. N

    10mm 4 core SWA

    A mate is clearing out his garage and asked me if I wanted 30 + metres of 10mm 4 core SWA on a wooden spool. LOL I don't know if I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, or being a donkey carting 5 quids worth of scrap. Could I use it to power my shed ? 1. By just terminating one of the cores...
  10. K

    3 Phase Sub Board off 4 Core 6mm SWA

    Hi all, Company I work for have moved into a new factory and asked me to wire up the work benches, properly this time as before they just used a selection of extension leads dragged across the floor. Anyway. On the wall there is a 4 core 6mm SWA cable terminated into a rotary isolator fed...
  11. R

    EICR code for 4 core 1.5 MICC in Ring Final Circuit.

    Which code would be considered appropriate for a ring circuit protected by a 30A rewireable fuse wired in 4 core 1.5mm2 MICC cable installed to method C. Circuit consists of 12 double sockets serving a large chapel area in a church dating to approx 60 years. I have put a code 2 for...
  12. M

    cable sizing for 400a 175m 4 core

    hey, ive been asked to work out a cable size for someone and not sure on the sizing for the amps. the information received is that its to be armoured, 4 core and the distance is 175m and needs to carry 400amps. is there a cable big enough or will they have to run two in parallel. thanks
  13. L

    single phase motor- 4 core cable query

    Fella's Im in the process of wiring a £15000 biomass boiler for a client, its basically an s plan on a large scale, the boiler is a wood pellet burning ETA (Austrian), The boiler is fed from a 7.5 tonne hopper which has a single phase capacitor start motor which drives a pump which pumps the...
  14. J

    4mm 4 core SWA feeding 32amp 5 pin TPN socket

    Hi, Just carried out a job today and it's been playing on my mind ever since. Basically I installed a 5 pin TPN socket to supply a compressor. The compressor load is 7.5kw, star delta starter. I decided to go for plug and socket arrangement because the board is close to full capacity and they...
  15. P

    SWA 4 core 4mm

    cheapest place currently? best price so far £1.93 plus Vat/m with Neweys :D cheers
  16. M

    Two feeds, 4 core cable

    I was in a pub cellar yesterday and like most it's wired like *****, like the rest of the building. But one thing I noticed was three single phase breakers supplying three 63A single phase rcd iso's. It was done in a 4 core SWA so yep u guessed it the forth core was a shared neutral for the...
  17. M

    help needed installation of x2 185mm2 4 core swa supplying new building

    Hi their just a quick one really need someone to confirm what im thinking . Doing a job for my company which involves supplying a new building situated 200m away from the switch room. it was specked to install x2 185mm2 swa's + 50mm2 seperate earth burried in a trench connected in parallel into...
  18. S

    2 circuits in 4 core swa?

    Just a quicky, Lighting circuit supplied by 4 core swa has become overloaded. Would there be anything wrong with splitting into 2 circuits and using the 4 cores for L and N and the steel armour for earth for both? all conductors would be identified with sleeving. Otherwise new cable needs...
  19. U

    4 Core SWA - 2 Cores RCD protected, the other 2 not ...

    Hi guys SWA feeding outside lighting and socket outlets etc. Set up like this: Single phase. L & N T&E out of MCB in main board to feed sperate enclosure with only an RCD module in. So L&N feeding an RCD. Then, 4 core SWA is glanded to this board. 2 of the cores (L/N) connect...
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