Morning all, i plan on extending ring circuit, installing additional 13A socket in the room.
Plan of action was to install black 30A junction box under floorboard to one of the legs. However after some research on this forum, junction box must be easily accessible and not suitable for the job...
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Had a guy in yesterday to look at the tumble dryer and he told my wife he couldn’t work on it because the ring circuit of the house had a fault showing on his meter of over 2 ohms.
Wasn’t quite sure what this meant but I’m taking it as neutral to earth leakage???
I don’t really have any...
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I'm needing to calculate the cable size for a long ring main. Cable type will be SWA/LSF.
The ring is feeding 5no Twin Sockets, on a 32A Type B RCBO, kicker is the length out and back is 300m.
Using cable calculation tools can i half the length, 150m, half the current, 16A and allow 20%...
I was talking to 1 of the QSs today and was told that in amendment 1 of the 18th he thinks it will say about going back to doing radials rather than ring circuits. I'm not sure how true this is but the guy is friendly with NICEIC people and seeminly this was discussed at a recent road show (...
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Working on a site with a general builder who planned on doing all the electrical work - total rewire - on the job, and is miffed because the home owner decided to call in a qualified electrician and get his certificates - builder has run some lighting cables, any old cable he had lying...
Hi, first post.
I was hoping for some advice. I have just brought a property and the electrical side needs updating. I have one ring main for the whole property, so why I am doing up the kitchen I have decided to put a separate ring main in for the kitchen, my issue is what should I do with the...
HI, as my profile says I'm not a sparky and know my limitations. I'm trying to learn (for the sake of it only as I'll never do it) what tests for "Ring Final Circuits" are. I understand how the Tests 1, 2 and 3 are done but in one of the videos I watched the presenter (John Ward) mentions a...
On a job today to work out plans and discuss options with customer for a series of down lights in dining room and kitchen. went to do a few tests to check existing cables were okay and I open up the CU to discover lighting circuit installed as a ring using 2.5 T&E. This is on just the downstairs...
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This is my first post, but I've been reading many posts over the last few months and have found this forum very informative and some times very humorous, Thank you all.
I have recently come across a problem whilst doing some PAT testing for a customer that has left me confused...
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I've got a 32amp MCB under an 30mA RCD supplying a ring of sockets in the basement. There is an electric heater that the client wants hardwiring in (still needs to have a switch). My logic would be a Fused Switch. Can I take the spur from a near by double socket into the input?
Does it matter which method (method 1 or method 2) you use when testing for continuity of the circuit protective conductors? Or is each method dependent upon which the type of circuit you are testing on ring or radial?
I have been told that test method 1 is used for lighting and radial...
Is the continuity test for circuit protective conductors, the same test for ring and radial circuits or is there a different test for each type of circuit?
Also what is the difference between testing for cpc continuity and testing for continuity for ring final circuit conductors?
Is the continuity test for circuit protective conductors, the same test for ring and radial circuits or is there a different test for each type of circuit?
Also what is the difference between testing for cpc continuity and testing for continuity for ring final circuit conductors?
Hi for a ring circuit, is there any need to measure and enter R1 + R2 values on a schedule of results ? Because an r2 value is already measured (together with r1 and rn). If I needed a ring R1 + R2 value to calculate ZS (although i would find ZS with a socket tester so really no need; but if I...
I live in a dormer bungalow, we only have one ring main which supplies both upstairs and down. We are about to installing a new kitchen and initially got a quote from B&Q, the installer came round and said that B&Q will insist on making the kitchen into its own ring circuit (to secure the...
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I have been asked to add a couple of sockets and add power to an existing strip light (currently disconnected) in a garage. There is presently an SWA 2.5 mm cable that is apparently live but taped up, hanging loose in the garage which is fed from a 32a ring circuit located in a utility...
Hi Everyone
I have recently started a C&G 2365 level 2 course and seem to be stuck on, a few things are unclear hope you guys can shed a little light on the queries below.
Regarding Radial & Ring Circuits
The questions I am a little confused with are below
"State the number of spurred...
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 ??
One of my domestic electrical customers has recently had a 4Kw solar PV system installed.
The area in the garage next to where the array was located does not have easy access to the main Consumer Unit so the installers have installed a 2-way garage consumer unit to connect the inverter. This 2...
In a new build , I have noticed how the Sparks that have wired the house (4 bed 3 storey town house)
They have put the kitchen appliances sockets/kitchen worktop sockets/boiler fcu/1st floor sockets/2nd floor sockets on a 32A ring and the ground floor sockets only 4 sockets on another 32A ring...
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