cpc

  1. T

    No cpc on lighting circuits

    Advice please installing a in line bathroom fan in a house ,their was no cpc on the lighting circuits ,I told owner I could install fan but couldn't connect to power due to no cpc advice?
    • tesla09
    • Thread
    • advice circuit circuits connect cpc install lighting
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  2. S

    Lighting circuit - no CPC

    Alrite lads, I'm a commercial spark so don't do much domestic but a mate of mine asked me to Pop round and change a light fitting in his kitchen 5 min job, he had an old 6ft fluorescent which was shot and he has brought a new class 1 fitting. I remove the fitting and there's no CPC so I...
    • smity
    • Thread
    • circuit class cpc dangerous fitting fittings lighting lighting circuit
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  3. C

    cpc in pvc conduit?

    Hi all, I was testing an installation today and every thing seems to be in order till I found a piece of white pvc conduit with a single 2.5 brown cable in it with no cpc. The conduit had been installed to pick up a permanent feed to a PIR from an emergency light fitting. Both lights and the PIR...
  4. L

    Using sheathing as CPC

    I'm completing a job started by another electrician (oh the joy) and the client has all the ordered materials on site as the previous guy instructed them. One thing I have to do is re route the armored cable between two CU's in a large outbuilding as it presently runs where they are planning to...
  5. J

    Broken CPC, done all I can but still no luck.

    I've been let loose today to do a PIR, EICR, E, I,E,I, O what ever they wanna call them these days in an empty flat and have an annoying CPC broken in RFC. 2 bed flat 3 way CU - Cooker (30), Lights (6) and RFC(30) End to end of r1 and rn fine but r2 is broken. This is what I did- connected...
  6. J

    Adding class I fittings to lighting circuit / extending cpc

    Hi All, I'm a DIYer after advice please. All the lights in my house (ground floor and upstairs) are on one circuit - old colours, as you might expect with the age of house (120 years). There is a cpc (earth) from the (modern) consumer unit to junction boxes on both floors of the house -...
    • jufjuf0
    • Thread
    • adding circuit class cpc electrician extending fittings junction lighting lighting circuit
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: DIY Electrical Advice
  7. A

    Sharing a CPC

    Hello all, I have been ask to run power to a couple of AC units in armoured cable clipped along the outside of a new building. It is going to require 2 separate 20amp circuits so was wondering whether I could run a 4 core armoured cable, giving me 2 lives and 2 neutrals then using the armour as...
  8. rustynails

    no cpc customer wants metal fittings etc....

    This has been posted about a lot but I wanted to ask a really stupid question. I can only run 4mm single g/y to each metal fitting from the board which is dual rcd 30ma. I cannot touch the drops, stipulated by the landlord. Is it acceptable to issue a mwc for this, write a safety letter and...
  9. W

    Help required on separate or non separate CPC for 200A 3P supply

    Hi guys, Im banging my head off the wall on this one. I have to run in a new 200A per phase supply. The cable length is 35M. Ambient temp is 20C. I am looking at table 4D4A in BGB and as it's to be on tray so Im thinking a 70mm CSA 4core as it has a Current carrying capacity of 207A (I am...
  10. N

    Sizing of CPC and bonding conductor

    Hi Guys I have been asked to quote to install a MET for a TN-C-S system and I could do with some advice please I can't get into determine the size of the conductors as I cant switch the power off to open up the main panel What I did was measure the circumference of the SWA it was 214mmm I...
  11. Midwest

    Voltage on CPC

    Went to a job the other day, where the client wanted a light fitting put up instead of the ceiling rose. In conversation they mentioned having problems with their electrics, and had had a new CU fitted. I decide to measure ZS & RCD at the said ceiling rose. However, my tester (Megger1730)...
  12. N

    T&E CPC Estimated 12% Undersize...?

    Testing 2.5+1.5 socket ring, got r1 0.75ohm, rn 0.76ohm, r2 1.38ohm. Expected r2 is 1.25ohm (=0.75*2.5/1.5)...bit of a deviation. All CPC connections inspected appeared fine. Had a micrometer to hand (not calibrated admittedly) so measured conductors, live = 1.77mm dia, CPC=1.30mm which gives...
  13. P

    recorded cpc size

    on a schedule of circuit details for a installation certificate, under the circuit conductors cpc size in mm², what should be recorded when a SWA cable has been used but one of the inner conductors is used as the cpc (say single phase circuit supplied by 2.5mm² 3 core, 1 x phase, 1 x neutral, 1...
  14. uksparks

    Using CPC as live conductor.... ok i know, but...

    Hi, Had to change a bathroom fan at the weekend for someone and they wanted it to be on a timer, but couldnt as the cable was buried in the wall and wouldn't move etc.. the cable that fed it was a three core flex, I the earth was not being used anyway due to the load on the end etc. I know...
  15. jibjob

    What size your CPC

    Hi Guys, I have been asked to install a some lighting & sockets in a lean too come garage come workshop type of thing. I was going to do it in PVC conduit & make a proper job of it rather than surface clip T&E all over the place. I haven't done much in the way of circuit installation using this...
  16. S

    bizzare Line to CPC fault on lighting circuit

    Hi people Maybe somone can give me some pointers, Generally with faults i'm pretty good but this one has got me stumped! I was working in an old house that the owner required some modernising, so we did a kitchen and moved and added few lights and switches around as you do. The board was an old...
    • sparks monkey
    • Thread
    • circuit cpc fault lighting lighting circuit
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  17. M

    Lighting CPC

    Excuse what may be an obvious question here fellas, so I apologise, but I'm having a real brain fade after a bit of a trying couple of weeks at work (other work, not 'here')......A customer has requested that I install 3 x 12v downlight fittings to a small ensuite. My question is that as that...
  18. B

    conduit used as cpc

    Hi all again I'm doing another condition report for a property, no cpc for sockets, cooker lighting, what's the best way to test continuity, I'm thinking of doing the same way as R1+ R2 line to earth terminal, also would you record results in r2 box or R1+ R2 box, I'm having a bad day
    • Buzz-light-bulb
    • Thread
    • conduit cpc doing earth property terminal
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  19. NDG Elecs

    Link between N - CPC on fluorescent... what is it?

    Hello folks, I hope the picture shows ok. If it does not show, then basically there is a blue disc approx 25mm in diameter that may have a resistor or something in it. It is approx 4mm ' thick'. The blue disc is linking between neutral and earth on the fitting. Never noticed these before...
  20. spud1

    Voltage on a CPC?

    Hi everyone, Hopefully someone can help me with this?! I am in the throws of finishing a domestic rewire in an empty house this week and yesterday was re-sleeving some CPC's in pendant light fitting that my apprentice had sleeved poorly. Rather naughtily I was doing this while the pendant was...
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