Hi All!
Officially losing my EF forum virginity with this one, and would greatly appreciate any help you guys could throw my way!
Through Covid-19 and no work currently being undertaken, this would seem like the best opportunity to finish the portfolio for my qualification. I am a 3rd year...
Hi All, and thanks in advance for reading my question. I have soent the last 30 mins searching online without an answer to y question.
My kitchen is currently being rewired. The hob is going to run off a fused switched spur. The switched spur is currently wired directly into the kitchen ring so...
Afternoon.
I've recently had a ring main fault where a leg from socket to socket has gone down to earth. All sockets off, continuity testing between each leg and core and found the culprit. Was tripping RCD when turning ring on (kitchen)
Anyway, I havent got the option to put a new leg in, so...
Evening all,
Was just wondering when extending a ring main from a socket (not a spur but keeping it as a ring ) I have always been told to crimp cables through but would it be acceptable to use wago style lever connectors instead, as the connections are accessible anyway inside the back box...
I'm not sure if this is a reasonable question or so stupid it shouldn't be asked. If the latter than I apologise and hope I don't get too much negativity back.
So I want to perform the test Continuity of ring final conductors on an existing ring main. Because I'm lazy and its dark outside...
Hi there,
I have just bought a hot tub that plugs in to a 16 amp, 3 pin socket. I have an outdoor supply that was fitted on my house (professionally fitted on a new build property. It runs of a 32 amp breaker on the ring main.
The supply does not have a socket, just a blank face plate...
Hi, Im a bit puzzled, recently did a new kitchen install with complete new wiring from the cu, this included a kitchen ring, upon testing I have continuity on the n to n end amd cpc to cpc but no continuity on the live ends, Insulation resistance checks out fine on investigation using the half...
Evening all
Has anyone ever wired a ring main in 4Core SWA and used the sheath as an earth?
Just looking at wiring some sockets in an industrial unit and wondering whether to do it that way or do a 4mm radial
Hi, I recently went to look at a house with about 10 sockets not working. Checked the continuity on the ring main ends - all good. I turned off all other socket circuits in the board just to make sure no crossed circuits - still the same, about 5 sockets working and the rest (about 10) not...
Evening everyone
Had to re post as I started a post within a post:grimacing:
here's hoping I'm posting in the right part or I have started off on the wrong foot.
Long story
Asked by a friend to look at his friends electrics as the kitchen ring was tripping the RCD.
New colours cable
on 32amp...
Hi all
To start off, there’s been no work on the ring main for 8 years or so. (Other than having a smart metre fitted about 12 months ago)
Yesterday afternoon I noticed a buzzing from a plug socket. I unplugged what was plugged in thinking it was the appliance and didn’t think anything more of...
Hi, I know you can’t put a ring off a ring, you should join a cable in the back box of a socket, take it to your new socket, then continue the ring until you get back to your original socket
But I don’t know the reasoning why you can’t make a figure of 8 ring main if you like,
Could someone...
I’ve just altered a ring main by taking 1 leg out of the board and taking it to a spur (then taking a leg back), to add a socket in. After doing so I’ve turned the board back on and everything is working as it should, other than cooker circuit (A radial feeding the cooker/hob, extractor fan and...
I’ve been asked to add a couple of extra points to the single ring main in a flat. Building fabric is concrete, all of the electrical installation is steel conduit buried in the concrete.
I opened the consumer unit and could only see one CPC for a radial socket, as well as the main Earth. No...
Hello I am new to this forum and need a little help from an experienced spark to help me design a circuit to wire a detached garage (two sockets and ceiling lights) from a house ring main to 18th edition standards. This will be notifiable so everything has to be pukka. Cable can be in steel...
Hello all,
I'm new here, first post and no elec qualifications, so a few condescending replies I'm sure are more than deserved.
I'm currently looking to add some strip lighting to the back of some shelves in the bathroom (wife thinks it looks fancy). What I really want to do is avoid a second...
I need to fit a number of new 13A sockets in my garage to power some new equipment. I am planning to put in a new ring main and a new consumer unit to connect these sockets. The garage is a few metres from my house where the main CU is. Do I have to carry the ring main all the way back to the...
Hi.
New to site. After abit of advice.
Adding a 13 amp fused switched spur to a ring in 2.5 mm t&e, only the current wiring is in 2.5mm with 2.5mm cpc. Protected by a C32 RCBO 30mA , only the CPC is going to be mixed 1.5 and 2.5.
Can’t fined anything in regs book about mixing cpc. Any advice...
Ok help before a pull out the rest of my hair got an rcd that trips when ring main breaker turned on got continuity but still trips when only live connected ant ideas
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