Hi, have a metre box 4m away from consumer unit, there is going to be an extension on the side adding an extra 4m so the metre box is getting moved to end of house again. Total length will b 10-12m, at the min the 25mm tails are going from mains to fuse switch with an 25mm 3core swa supplying...
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I have a question I have been asked to look at a job this week and I am a bit puzzled.
A chap I know has a shed connected to His down stairs ring to a garden shed via a 2 core swa cable. Its connected to the rear of a outside socket the armour of the swa is connected to the cpc at...
Hi all , this is my first post , i’m a qualified electrician but I spend my whole time sub contracting to a factory installing and moving machinery so i’m a bit out of touch ( although taking the 18th on may 3rd ) with domestic work! A friend has asked for a supply to his summer house so I took...
Partly cos I like to know everything... Partly because I'm a geek... And partly because we're going to have some electrical work done on the house which has made me curious.... I'd like to know more about the feed to my house...
The power lines come to us through the garden and reach a pole...
I am planning to run a power to the garage from a 16 amps RDC from house CU in a new build. I want a power a twin socket, an internal light, and a floodlight. There is a power feed to a junction box on the outside of the house from a CU. My plan is to install a power supply as per the attached...
Evening all.
I'm having a garden office installed next week. I work from home so will run a laptop and chargers, lighting, internet router, TV for playtime possibly with an xbox, a music player of some sort. All nothing major.
Now. Last year when I had my house rewired my sparky left a power...
Just wondering what people thoughts are on obtaining a supply to a part of a local mill where I am now a maintenance engineer. The existing installation is terrible with many switch fuses that have been added over the years, the oldest part is from 1946.
The total supply capacity in question is...
I have recently moved into the house with storage radiators, economy 10 and dynamic teleswitching (DTS) My supplier is nPower (!) I am trying to assertain switch on and off times for the heaters, especially for the extra 3hr boost. Apart from staying up and watching the heaters, is there a...
Hi I'm after some advice, ive been asked to connect up a new outbulding at a school, there was a building there before and the 4 core 16mm SWA was already in place. It will be a kind of extra classroom/club room and will have several sockets, lights and a small water heater in the toilet...
We have been asked to do a proper supply for some pumps/fountains lights in a small lake at a golf complex ( at present it is a blue artic flex running underneath the building through hedges and basically non- compliant) my thought was to install an SWA in an existing duct fed from an RCBO to an...
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I would really appreciate some advice on the following problem I have had with a temporary electric supply.
We are in the process of building a couple of flats and had a temporary supply put in, no problem! However much later when one of the labourers was putting the hockey...
Hi all, I’m new to this forum so please bare with me.
I was after some advice if possible, I’m going to be taking a supply to a log cabin in a customers garden and wiring the log cabin itself. The cabin is pretty much a small bungalow with shower,cooker,hob,ring,water heater,lights and an...
A bit out of the ordinary this one.
Carrying out an electrical install on a 200 year old ex warship.
We have installed Rcbo protection on all local circuits on the boat.
There is a 50mm 4 core swa cable going to be supplying the boat direct from a lucy box with a isolator then cutout and meter...
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I am not an electrician and ask this question of your forum.
My house needs rewiring as the cables although not perished are the type fitted in the 1960s and the lighting circuit is not earthed. The house CU is around 20 years old(Professionally installed) and the house is protected...
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Sure i had another login but seems my account has been recycled......anyway.
Im running a supply to multiple portacabins and shipping containers.
The Supply is a TNS and is approximately 95m away.
I have decided on a 63A 3phase circuit and calculated the cable size @ that length to...
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A friend of mine has an electrician at his place doing some work and hes asked him to put in a supply for his shed. Its a 19metre run would be from one end of the house through the joists under the floorboard and then out into the shed outside. The electrician has ran it with 10mm T...
hi hope someone can help I am in the middle of a kitchen remodel and the fitters have a problem with my wiring. We are have a oven and a fitted microwave both needing a 16 amp Rcd supply. The old cooker is on its own but not rcd but that not a problem I have a spare mcb in the consumer unit. The...
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We have 460V MCC panel for existing pumps in our plant. We need to give supply to new 380V rated pumps in the same panel. There is space available in the panels(Out of 9, one panel almost free). So please suggest is it possible to make the arrangement for MCC feeders in the same...
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I am running a supply to an outbuilding that requires a 22m run from the Main CU (in the garage) to the CU in the outbuilding, at the Main CU it will be a 40A MCB supplying an 63ma RCD protected sub board which will then supply:
6A type B MCB for 12 downlights and an extractor fan
32A...
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I am an electrician from abroad, I have my 17th edition pased in UK and I am working as an electrician in industry since 2012.
I would like to power my shed with a 2.5mm Armoured cable. Can enyone tell me if I can do it as described in digram below.
Do I need the socket outlet...
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