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Il give you the scenario, stables in a field, e-on have been out and put a supply in a hut with a meter on and a one shot, main fuse is 80amps, the customer need a fuseboard putting in the barn, 75metres away, what size cable would i be looking at, ive done a calculation, 1 x swa cable 3 core, burried, ive use 80amp as the demand as this is the maximum at the origin and the cable size is coming back at 25mm. Is the right or is there some sort of diversity applied which would allow you todrop to 16mm. All that will be going in are sockets and light, quite a few to be fair but altimatley just wanted to get the armoures cable to the fuseboard and just questioning the size. Any help is appreciated
 
Appendix 4 Reg 6.4 gives permitted vd limits. These limits apply from the origin of the installation to any load points and for lighting this is 3% therefore, if you have a 3% allowance on your submain any lighting circuit is going to exceed this if the submain is operating at full load, not likely. It is often quoted submains feeding lighting and power has a vd limit of 1% allowing a small allowance for the lighting.
 
What’s you design load and max demand? Earthing arrangement? Any utilities that require bonding?
 
Il give you the scenario, stables in a field, e-on have been out and put a supply in a hut with a meter on and a one shot, main fuse is 80amps, the customer need a fuseboard putting in the barn, 75metres away, what size cable would i be looking at, ive done a calculation, 1 x swa cable 3 core, burried, ive use 80amp as the demand as this is the maximum at the origin and the cable size is coming back at 25mm. Is the right or is there some sort of diversity applied which would allow you todrop to 16mm. All that will be going in are sockets and light, quite a few to be fair but altimatley just wanted to get the armoures cable to the fuseboard and just questioning the size. Any help is appreciated
The hut you talk of does it require any bonding?
 
1 x swa cable 3 core, burried, ive use 80amp as the demand as this is the maximum at the origin and the cable size is coming back at 25mm.

When you say "is coming back" is this your own cals or have you inputted the info into a web site?
As above. Your calcs are incorrect.
 
He is quoting a three core and hence with an 80A head the third core should be adequate for bonding purposes.
Maybe , he may not know that he can use the armour as a cpc, after all he is asking questions that an electrician should know the answer to, don't you think, probably not though.
 

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