just visited a customer who requires a 7.3kw hob connected to replace existing gas hob. Currently has a 2.3kw single oven connected to a 4mm T+E cooker radial (ref method c) Protected by a 32amp MCB
i advised that for the hob to be installed the cooker radial would have to be rewired using 6mm...
Hi all,
Just wondering if anybody knew why the max number of sockets you can have on a radial circuit covered by a 20amp breaker, and fed by 2.5 T&E in order to comply with regs?
Cheers
Had a call out to a home where the RCD keeps tripping when lounge ,dinning and bed room sockets mcb is switched on. Fault traced to one of the legs from the consumer unit to 1st socket 0.2Meg ohm at best. cable size is 2.5mm T&E there are 10 double and 4 single sockets on the circuit. Reg 433.1...
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I'm not into design etc and never have been really but how do you calculate volt drop on a distribution ring main circuit? Ring circuit say covering a large area supplying various loads/buildings. I was thinking split the ring and work it out as 2 x radial circuits, but 1 radial may...
Morning all, been pondering quite a bit lately about Hybrid circuits,especially 13amp socket circuits, the likes of lolly pop rings etc.
I don't want to get into arguments about the pros and cons and why people install them, that's been done to death, whether, I personally agree with this...
Hi,
I had a nice little job of cutting 20 Australian plugs off appliances etc the other day and replacing with uk plugs...
It occurred to me though, none of them had fuses?..
I have no idea how it works down under and just wondered if someone would kindly tell me why the appliances are not fused.
I went to a job that the owner felt was a bodged job. It was basically a radial circuit wired at the start in 4.0mm T&E, and then it goes to a few sockets that is supplying a washing machine and tumble drier. From there it goes upstairs to the airing cupboard where it feeds a single switched...
Hi all,
Im am soon to be installing 4 double sockets and possible 2 wall lights in a new conservatory.
Was going to extend downstairs ring but a tad awakward and I'm not a lover of junction boxes if they can be avoided. The consumer unit isn't too far so just as easy to install a new circuit...
i had a couple of sockets put in about 12 year a go and was thinking of adding another for tv on wall and was looking under floorboards and it looks like its done on a radial circuit as it come straight from the fuse box and ends at the 2nd socket ,it is also wired to the up stairs socket fuse...
I am a DIY and working on an extension on my home. I found out that one area of my house is on a 4mm radial for sockets on a 32amp mcb which I know is fine.
Now the question is
Can I safely continue wiring 4mm radial?
Total length from distribution to last socket will be around 60metres with 12...
hi guys
Need some help in calculating voltage drop on a branched radial circuit. (13A design load 2.5mm cable)( cu to junction box 8m 2.5mm)
for a standard loop in loop out radial it would be IbxDxmV/m/1000
this circuit has 2 branches from the junction box
one/ 10m long ( 1 double...
Hi everyone looking to clarify something, had a tester onsite today testing circuits we've been installing the past few weeks, in his opinion he found fault with one circuit, we had wired a 30m radial circuit in 2.5mm 2core & earth fp200 on a c16 mcb. The cable was clipped direct throughout its...
Hi all,
I've tested several radial circuits and only getting 0.00 ohms on the r+r2 test (zero'd leads)
2 of the radials only supplies one socket each and are approx. 3 metres in total length. (zs 0.25 and 0.21)
Another radial only supplies one socket and is appox. 5m in length. (zs 0.35)
The...
I am currently renovating my kitchen and am considering swapping my standalone cooker for a hob/single oven combination.
Would it be possible to use a dual appliance output plate on a 32A ring?
The hob = 4.6Kw
The oven = 3.65Kw
or would they need to be on separate circuits?
Thanks
Hi all,
Today i found 2 radial circuits in a 32amp mcb breaker, would you give it a code c1 or c2 on a eic report?
Also what are the main dangers of having these together?
Cheers
Dem
Hi all,
I did some work on a house the other day that had a circuit for sockets which was cabled in 4mm to half way in the house the split of it to 2.5 up to the sockets. It had a 32a breaker. I'm aware that you can have a 32a 4mm radial but that the whole circuit must be in 4mm. Using 2.5 on...
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