2 x 10mm2 into socket terminals.

[Deleted member 117749]

Hi All, my first post.
What range of accessories has a socket plate with large capacity terminals? I am about to run a 10mm2 SWA cable to a shed and the customer has asked if I can put a couple of sockets in weather-proof enclosures along the route. Can any socket's terminals take 2 x 10mm2 or must I do some clunky choc block lash up?

 

[Des 56]

You may well have to use that swa to feed 3 distribution positions,the shed at the end and each socket position otherwise a troublesome socket problem could well end up knocking the innocent shed off power if you revert to plan A

I think the 2 socket positions would at the minimum need a double pole isolator and a mcb housed in a weatherproof unit
By the time she would pay for these, the swa from the shed will seem like less of a cost heart attack to her

 

[Markyd]

I still stand by my post and believe you need to get someone who knows what they are doing to do the work safely......also you as the electrician should advise the client how the work will be done and not the other way around...... and by the way I don't drink

 

[Barry123]

just daisy chain a bunch of these into a 13 amp fcu

wickes.co.uk/Masterplug-Weatherproof-Garden-Spike-Lead---15m-10A/p/117877?utm_source=google&scid=scplp117877&sc_intid=117877&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIspWUkJXH4wIVg7TtCh02TwySEAQYBCABEgIu5PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[davesparks]

Originally, I thought ‘What a nasty forum – if this is how you welcome a newbie, I’m out of here’. Then I realised it was Friday night and a few beers might have been consumed after a tense working week. That may have been the reason but was not an excuse.
Thanks to those who made on-topic, constructive responses.

The outbuilding is to be a pottery studio and will have lights, a socket ring and heater spur (but no kiln, thank God) and is 50m from the origin CU, therefore the calc is just into 10mm2 to avoid excessive volt drop.

This new submain would share half of a split board (large house) and outdoor stuff is always at risk of tripping an RCD. A mate has advised me to give the shed and outdoor sockets a dedicated RCD/RCDs and also that I would have a distribution circuit doubling as a final circuit and it should be one or the other (as per Wirepuller).

I spoke to the customer yesterday to urge her to let me feed one outdoor socket from the shed mini CU (local RCD) and the one nearer the house (25m run) from an RCBO in a new mini board within the house. It’s a lot more cost and if she doesn’t buy it then I will have to cut the 10mm2 and put sockets on it as per plan ‘A’.

Don't feed sockets directly from the distribution circuit like this, there's no regulation about it because the people who write the regs don't expect anyone to be so daft that they need to be told it's a bad idea!

"a mate has advised me" is a worrying thing to state, if you are designing the installation then you should have sufficient knowledge of the regulations, or at least he able to read up on the relevent regulations to do the design.

If this distribution circuit is going to be on an RCD protected way in a CU then it's a terrible design and pitting extra RCDs after it will achieve nothing.

 

[numbchuck86]

I still stand by my post and believe you need to get someone who knows what they are doing to do the work safely......also you as the electrician should advise the client how the work will be done and not the other way around...... and by the way I don't drink

Totally agree
Get someone in who has the knowledge and experience to design the installation. And I would say by original post that this is a new circuit and would need certification. And not being nasty but by the original question is the person competent to initial test and verify the circuit and issue paperwork under part P ?