Hi, apologies for the basic question
In a radial circuit, is it permissable to spur off the supply side of an existing fused connection unit?
As above, 3A FCU is feeding a floodlight, is it okay to spur off the supply side of the 3A FCU to feed a 13A FCU, isolating an outdoor socket?
Cheers
Evening everyone . Currently looking at pricing a job up . It’s a hot tub supply . Outside socket with a few spare ways in an outdoor cu . 10mm armoured cable on 45 amp mcb . To outdoor consumer unit . From there a 32 amp hot tub circuit and an outdoor socket all in armoured . The question is...
Good Evening. I’m currently carrying out an EICR. I have a cooker circuit radial with a 32amp mcb fed from and RCD split board. There is a 45amp double pole switch fitted with a single socket on the plate. Fed in 6mm T+E.
Then there is a 2.5mm T+E off the load side of the cooker switch down to...
Afternoon All,
Just pricing up a job and thought I'd pick your brains.
Quick run-down, Block of Flats with an underground car park. In the mains room each individual flat has a supply ran up to the flat (picture for reference) with a split concentric. The PME connection is provided within the...
Client currently has a DB in his outhouse. It feeds a pool pump and an air source heat pump. It is currently being supplied using a 4mm T&E cable. He wants the DB moved to his garage. It will still supply the two pumps but also a socket circuit in the garage. Having done my cable calcs, 4mm will...
Looking to use this brooks Compton motor as a replacement in an electric cement mixer. can anyone tell me if it is designed to operate off a domestic single phase 240v supply? It looks to me as though it could run off either a single or threes phase supply but I’d be grateful to hear from...
I have a strip light in the kitchen operated from a single switch. I want to replace it with a straight bar 4 spot array. There are three supply cables to the strip light, two of these are 3 core, red, black and earth. The third cable is 4 core, red, yellow, blue and earth. The new fitting has...
Hello, my incoming supply has one main fuse that feeds the next door naghbour it leaves my house to go next door as shown in picture..it's the single cables going through the hoteCan this be split, and how would be responsible for any changes.Thanks
Paul
We have a 5.5kW incoming supply, which cannot practicably be upgraded due to our remote location in the mountains.
Can I use a PV array and battery bank to augment this supply? We don't need lots of power, but with a 1.5kW water heater, a 2kW kettle and the odd 3kW power tool, we keep tripping...
Absolutely losing my brain here guys
What I would like to be able to do is power our 3 phase motor on a single phase supply.
Thought I had it all figured out, motor is dual voltage, on 230v its pulls 30amps 8.6kW rating. Nice cheap option was a dps (compared to getting 3 phase installed or a...
A friend of mine wired a 10mm 3 core armoured cable to his shed before I got involved and wired it himself already. He wants make it an air bnb with a ring circuit 32a, lighting circuit 6a, induction hob circuit 32a and a underfloor heating circuit 20a. Will the 10mm be enough for the supply and...
Cathodic Protection Station with Switching Power Supply for Buried Metal Structures
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Need some advice, I have 7 static caravans to connect which need to be connected via TT
1. All the vans have a 30ma RCD main switch internally
2. All the vans come with a 2.5mm artic flex ready for connection
3. All vans will be connected through an double pole isolator switch
4. There is a...
So far I have never had to deal with a new supply but a possible site we are looking at will need some major changes and so I wondered if folks here might have some help before engaging with SSE and/or supply company, etc.
The site used to have a private 500kVA transformer but that was removed...
Hi,
I’m an industrial electrician, so when it comes to DB regs and such my experience on them is a little limited.
I need 2 x 16A 3 phase supply and 4 x 230v 3 pin sockets which is intend to do as a ring however, the nearest supply is approx 120m away! Running this through a cable calculator...
Hi everyone I’m looking for an abb inverter
It’s for a bandsaw
Model number is ACS150-03E-08A8
I need it yesterday if anyone has one around I can sort out courier etc
I always turn off main switch before removing cover or doing any work in a DB, but when should incoming supply be isolated ?
When placing a clamp-on ammeter around an incoming phase conductor in a 3 phase board a spark to board casing occurred. Later found to be pre-existing damage to insulation...
I have a single phase stainless steel pasteuriser that has two control boxes attached to it. One box houses the control for the electronics and motor for the mixing paddle. The other box houses the supply to the water jacket immersion heater. The immersion heater is 1.5kw single phase and is...
Hi Guys,
Long time member and not a regular user here. I do pop in here when the odd unknown pop's up and unable to locate an electrical dilemma and cannot find a person that has the expected knowledge and can explain and help, as yet unable to find information even from respected persons.
Let...
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