Doing an inspection on two workshops at the end of the garden.
Workshop one has 40A MCB feeding 6.0mm T+E to junction box on the inside of the house on back wall, then 6.0mm SWA buried to the workshop. Distance to workshop 20m.
If the run was all SWA I calculate this as OK (just - max load approx 41A?, size of cpc to be 6.0mm as zs 0.54 and u0 246) but with the T+E involved how does my calculation alter?
The second workshop has a similar arrangement with a 20A MCB and 2.5mm T+E and 2.5 SWA which I calculate as once again just being OK.
Both have fuse boards in the workshops.
I already know that the SWA is not glanded properly nor the armour earthed.
There are no other utilities to the workshops.
What are your views please.
edit: both SWA's are 3 core with one core being used as the cpc - one on line cable calculator said that for the 40A load 2 core 6.0 SWA was OK but 3 core 6mm SWA was not - this confused me
Workshop one has 40A MCB feeding 6.0mm T+E to junction box on the inside of the house on back wall, then 6.0mm SWA buried to the workshop. Distance to workshop 20m.
If the run was all SWA I calculate this as OK (just - max load approx 41A?, size of cpc to be 6.0mm as zs 0.54 and u0 246) but with the T+E involved how does my calculation alter?
The second workshop has a similar arrangement with a 20A MCB and 2.5mm T+E and 2.5 SWA which I calculate as once again just being OK.
Both have fuse boards in the workshops.
I already know that the SWA is not glanded properly nor the armour earthed.
There are no other utilities to the workshops.
What are your views please.
edit: both SWA's are 3 core with one core being used as the cpc - one on line cable calculator said that for the 40A load 2 core 6.0 SWA was OK but 3 core 6mm SWA was not - this confused me
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