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    rings within rings

    I tested a job last week and ive been typing up a quote this morning and I cant find a regulation as to why you cant have a ring within a ring or a figure of 8 so to speak.. maybe im half asleep but ive checked the BGB and all i can find is appendix 15 which refers to reg 433.1.103 none of the...
  2. A

    rings within rings

    I tested a job last week and ive been typing up a quote this morning and I cant find a regulation as to why you cant have a ring within a ring or a figure of 8 so to speak.. maybe im half asleep but ive checked the BGB and all i can find is appendix 15 which refers to reg 433.1.103 none of the...
  3. H

    FDB11 RCD Units Advice

    Ho guys anyone know much about these? Got a burger van thats been out of use for some time. Been bought by a new owner and needs sorting out. The incoming goes into a large FDB 40A 35ma RCD unit, this then feeds a steel 10 way Mcb board, from this the lighting, cooker and fridges go...
  4. J

    Rings main Resistance with MCB off

    Hello there I have a query, I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Changing a double socket today (no faults with the old one, just changing from white to brushed steel). I Kept the mains switch and RCD in the 'on' position and just isolated the relevant ring main using the MCB. Before...
  5. Pete999

    Rcd

    Afternoon chaps and chapettes, got a tricky one for discussions, firstly let me explain I am an Electrician (retired some six years now) my neighbour has just changed his consumers unit, or had it changed by someone and asked me to check it out as it keeps tripping without any load connected, I...
  6. J

    Running of t+e for rings

    What is the correct way of running your t+e cables for a ring circuit. I understand the principle of starting at the db take your 2.5 to the 1st socket and loop in and out of each socket then at your last socket return to the db. But if you were to run that surface say in mt2...you wouldn't do...
  7. E

    2 rings for kitchen?

    I am working with a bloke who insists on putting in 2 rings for the kitchen - one for spurs one for sockets. So if you have a faulty appliance you can isolate and still have top sockets. Isnt that overkill?! Do any of you do the same?
  8. E

    rcd test tripping both sides

    can anybody help i did a rcd test on a circiut on a split load board and it triped out both sides of the board . I then tested a circuit on the oyher side of the board and that rcd did then not trip .I have checked for any neutrals on the wrong side but cant see anything obvious .never come...
  9. B

    separating socket rings in CU

    I have bought a new build house. which has a split load twin RCD CU. As expected, each bank has a socket circuit (not labelled Up or Down). Isolating one circuit turns off half of upstairs and half off downstairs and the other MCB in the CU isolates the other half. while a decent spark should...
  10. C

    Earth rings on SWA cables

    Hope this is in the right place... Our firm recently tested a 20 year old office installation and one of the flagged items is the lack of earth rings on the swa cables feeding the under floor tracks. The cables are glanded into the metal D/B. Earth for the sockets is provided by a third core...
  11. W

    One of three lighting rings stopped working

    Hi All Just moved into a new home last month and we're discovering all the weird things that other people do to their houses and a number of faults. The lounge has three rings of halogen spotlights in the ceiling on dimmers. A few days ago one of the dimmers stopped working - the on/off switch...
  12. Q

    What are these brushes or rings in AC generator for?

    Hello, I am wondering what do these brushes/rings do in an AC generator? what is their purpose? I'm a newbie..
  13. L

    Neff Hob Fault

    Had a fault with our hob: Only two rings work, others work when hob first switched on then go off shortly after. So called warranty company. When 'engineer' arrived and looked at it, he said the pans we were using were warped!!! I didn't tell him what I did for a living and let him tell me what...
  14. P

    Rings or Radials

    Haven't been in the domestic side of things for a while.... I own a standard 3 bed house which is 30 yrs old 1x 50 amp cooker 1x 30amp RFC (for entire house) 1x 15amp immersion heater 1x 5amp upstairs lights 1x 5amp downstairs lights Going to add and move sockets in kitchen.... In the past...
  15. J

    Intermittent trip on two rings

    Hi, Firstly, I'm a end user with no real electrical knowledge so please bear with me as I try to explain in non-technical (read stupid!) terms. I've a weird fault, the where the RCD trips out, I've sort of isolated it to either the main ring or the kitchen as either one or the other will be...
  16. B

    Extension rings

    where can i buy extension rings for single and double sockets to bring them out from the joist?
  17. I

    Domestic, kithchen rings and fridge/freezer circuit

    Does anyone put a fridge/freezer circuit on its own radial or do you just make it part of an appliance ring in the kitchen? Last time i wired a kitchen the drawing showed the fridge as part of a small ring for appliances in the kitchen. I seem to remember when the 17th came out there was the...
  18. R

    Leaving Rings behind going Radials ????

    Just pondering as a lecturer mentioned to me ideally that industry would like to phase Rings out and go down just the radial route in domestic environment How do you guys feel? any of you already really trying to go down this rd..? say the kitchen for appliances on separate 16amp supplies. or...
  19. S

    CU Replacement - Upstairs and Downstairs Rings Connected

    Hi, newbie here. Done a domestic PIR and Consumer Unit replacement is required (damaged, lighting circuit not earthed or RCDd, plus other reasons). However, another finding was that the upstairs and downstairs ring final circuits are connected (currently installed as the 2 live cables going...
  20. J

    Smoke from rings..

    Hi, I prefer to see the smokes from a lighting circuit for obvious reasons or at least on their own circuit. I have just come across 3 smokes connected to their nearest sockets via FCU's all with trunking down the wall and over the ceiling... lovely. Is this odd looking installation acceptable...

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