Domestic CU garage unit. Power is incoming at 237v and registers Live on input and output of RCD. It supplies 3 MCB's on a busbar feed all of which show Live on output as well. Earth is TT and Neutral is on a common bar. Its been fine for 10 years but all of a sudden the lights and ring have...
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Hi guys just a little bit of advice needed..
Looking to run power to my garage which is detached from my house.
I was thinking about using a 45a rcbo from the consumer unit then out on swa to the garage then having a small consumer unit with mcbs for the sockets and lights,
The swa...
I have just had a call from a company who are looking at installing some elctric gates at the bottom of a long drive.
They have asked me to price for 100m armoured cable (its a looooooong drive).
I asked the guy what amps i need to power the gates and he replyed 6a.(prolly less than this but...
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Hi folks thanks for any help...
Went into garage (detached) last night to get something out of freezer and neither light nor freezer working. Have a fuse box in garage (old style wire fuse) one for sockets and one for light but both are ok and the unit hadnt tripped. Went into house to check...
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Hi, I've been to a job today where the upstairs lights are not working. The breaker is fine and there is power there but it's dead at all the switches and roses. I think a wire has probably come loose in a JB somewhere but I can't get access due to solid wood floor in loft conversion. Can I run...
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Hi
I need to get power to my shed, I need 1 double socket and a light, I have been told I need to connect the armoured cable to a stopping box, can someone advise me how this is done.
Many Thanks
hi can any one help i have been asked to install a socket and a light inside and out side of a stable to run off a 2.2kw generator if its correct can i run flex from a garage consumer unit and fix a plug on to it so they can plug in to generator when neeeded would i still use 6a mcb for lights...
Hello fellow sparkys
The customer would like me to install A small 2 way CU in his garage. This is for him to use a few power tools, lights and possible an electric door motor. The Armoured cable run is about 25 metres. I am planning to put an RCBO in the house C.U. to protect to cable to the...
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Basically just want anyone to pick me up on anything I may have missed or planned completely wrong!
4mm2 from 32a mcb with RCD protection run from c/u to exterior, down exterior wall in conduit and under ground in cable pipe for about 10m then terminate into garage c/u.
Distributed to a 20a...
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can any one give me guidance on runing power to a shed .
i have been told by the elecsa tecnical department you can run from consumer unit from the rcd or seperate rcbo and you do not need another rcd in the shed
i was planing on using a 40a mcb using 6mm t+e and 2.5 3 core swa to a garage...
I need to run 25m of 2.5mm armored cabling to a shed. The consumer box has no RCD protection and no spare slots for a RCBO, so I'm thinking of putting an external RCD box next to the main consumer box, any thoughts on this would be most appreciated. i.e how do you split power off to a seperate...
Mate asked me to look at his immersion heater that had stopped working. The tank has two elements - labelled 'On Peak' and 'Off peak'. It is the off peak one which has failed. No breakers tripped but the neon on one of the switches (off peak) is out. I've measured around the circuit - no power...
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Instead of a direct run straight to the C/U can I go into a socket on a ring main inside the house, run cable from that outside and into the shed into a double socket then to a 3A spur for a light? I'd like to run in conduit with 4mm singles. So from inside house on 32a ring to a 13A double...
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Been called out to look at fault in kebab shop, there chip fryer is hard wired to 45a sw & neon that lost power, removed switch and found no power getting to it, checked the cu and all the mcb are still in the up position, the fryer is wired to 32a mcb which didnt trip, it is a double fryer...
i thought i had a power supply problem recently and there wasnt a neutral going into the machine so i checked everything to earth and seemed to get power into the power supply but when i tried a new one it never worked and the actual fault was a fan that was breaking a fuse, can anyone explain...
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After some advice from the experienced sparks out there.
I have built a concrete base at the end of my garden ready for a 15' x 10' summerhouse to go on.
I need to take power to it for s/o & lighting.
The shed is approx 12m from nearest part of house which is a kitchen extension.
Need to...
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Hi all,
running power to an outbuilding and then a pond pump but I have a few questions. Here is my plan;
The dwelling installation is TT
Ensure dwelling FB has 30Ma RCD Protection and a spare slot
Run cable to garage
2 way FB
Obviously rate the cable, etc..
Questions
Does the cable NEED...
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Afternoon all,
I wonder if someone can help me out here. I need to run an electrical supply to my wooden shed - approx 10 metres from my house. I plan to continue the radial circuit from a socket in our dining room. The circuit currently has only 2x double sockets (which don't really get...
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