Double socket problems!!

[rennie158]

I’m changing my double socket and upon removing the old one, I seem to have 3 separate wires coming in to it. So essentially I have 3 live wires, 3 neutral wires, and 3 earth wires. How do I connect the earth wires to the new socket as it only has 2 terminals? I’m fitting new chrome black sockets so want to be careful!!

 

[brianmoooore]

Most of the imperial cable I've dealt with has been tinned. Did this apply right up to the end of production?
The cable in the pic isn't tinned.
Did the stranded 2.5 have a stranded cpc as well?

 

[Mike Johnson]

The house I grew up in had round pin Bakelite sockets but then we where lucky.

 

[brianmoooore]

The house I grew up in had round pin Bakelite sockets but then we where lucky.

So had mine, up until the age of eleven, powered by a Lister start o matric, of all of 2.5kVa.

 

[cloverman]

So had mine, up until the age of eleven, powered by a Lister start o matric, of all of 2.5kVa.

You guys had a life of luxury, The house I grew up in, we had a couple of tilly lamps.

 

[Mike Johnson]

The house of my first memory was in Highbury and had gas mantles we rented the ground floor off two old ladies that lived upstairs and we where allowed to use the bathroom once a month, our loo was outside with the mangle and my mother would wash my brother and I in the wood fired copper in the scullery which was our kitchen, my first school was Drayton Park, not far from Arsenal, this was in Melgand Road just up from the library in Holloway Road.

 

[UNG]

Just found this Datasheet

On page 3 it shows *H6242YST 2 x 2.5 Nominal stranding of conductor 7 / 0.67 & CPC 1 / 1.38 (1.5mm²)

So stranded 2.5 is still manufactured and the sheet also shows stranded 1.5

 

[brianmoooore]

So stranded 2.5 is still manufactured and the sheet also shows stranded 1.5

But with a solid cpc.

 

[Mike Johnson]

But with a solid cpc.

Of a totally different size to the phase and neutral?

 

[pc1966]

Just found this Datasheet

On page 3 it shows *H6242YST 2 x 2.5 Nominal stranding of conductor 7 / 0.67 & CPC 1 / 1.38 (1.5mm²)

So stranded 2.5 is still manufactured and the sheet also shows stranded 1.5

Interesting, has anyone seen it stocked though?

I can see some advantages to stranded 2.5mm as more flexible so easier for pulling though conduit, etc, but that is not really done often.

 

[UNG]

Of a totally different size to the phase and neutral?

Like all T&E then

 

[westward10]

Like all T&E then

Nearly all.

 

[brianmoooore]

But with a solid cpc.

Unlike the cable in the OP pic, which appear to have a stranded cpc.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Just found this Datasheet

On page 3 it shows *H6242YST 2 x 2.5 Nominal stranding of conductor 7 / 0.67 & CPC 1 / 1.38 (1.5mm²)

So stranded 2.5 is still manufactured and the sheet also shows stranded 1.5

I have not seen sigle strand 2.5 outside T&E it all seems to be multi strand in Europe, stocked by TLC in the UK.

 

[pc1966]

I have not seen sigle strand 2.5 outside T&E it all seems to be multi strand in Europe, stocked by TLC in the UK.

Conduit cable certainly is usually stranded in 1.5mm & 2.5mm where T&E is single.

I don't see stranded T&E on TLC site?

EDIT: For 1.5mm/2,5mm as bigger is usually stranded

 

[UNG]

Conduit cable certainly is usually stranded in 1.5mm & 2.5mm where T&E is single.

I don't see stranded T&E on TLC site?

Only found it on the Check Every Figure site

 

[littlespark]

Conduit cable certainly is usually stranded in 1.5mm & 2.5mm where T&E is single.

I don't see stranded T&E on TLC site?

I take it you mean "where T&E is solid"

 

[pc1966]

Only found it on the Check Every Figure site

Got any link to that? A search shows all sort of unrelated stuff.

 

[pc1966]

I take it you mean "where T&E is solid"

Yes!

Though I am sure that somewhere, someone, will have linked L+N+CPC in to a single conductor...

 

[littlespark]

Got any link to that? A search shows all sort of unrelated stuff.

and i think he means City Electrical Factors... not Check Every Figure...

A slight on CEF's ability to change prices frequently

 

[pc1966]

and i think he means City Electrical Factors... not Check Every Figure...

A slight on CEF's ability to change prices frequently

Ah yes, and the "sort by price" option that disappears if you are logged in?

 

[westward10]

For some reason I have seen a lot of stranded 2.5 T&E in schools new and old colours the cpc is always solid.

 

[nicebutdim]

I have not seen sigle strand 2.5 outside T&E it all seems to be multi strand in Europe, stocked by TLC in the UK.

Isn't 2.5mm2 NYY-J supplied as sold core across Europe?

 

[Dustydazzler]

Stranded 2.5 with stranded cpc

 

[brianmoooore]

There's nothing in that vid. that says whether it's metric or imperial.