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Oh, hang on...
That is obviously your choice if you actually are extending the ring.
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A lot of unnecessary work would need to be undertaken to allow all things which may be wanted in the distant future which are not wanted now.
Maybe not.However, if you are running two cables in the same place, then that would not be my definition of extending the ring.
Any chance of you explaining why it is OK for you to suggest this:Instead of presumably having unwanted connectors in the back box for one of the cables, why not connect both cables to the existing socket?
This would give you 5mm² (2 x 2.5mm² in parallel) conductors to your new socket - and the same if you decide to add more at some time in the future.
Probably, but at the risk of some unusual topologies developing in the future.Of course the same could be achieved by one using 4mm² cable.
All things, yes.A lot of unnecessary work would need to be undertaken to allow all things which may be wanted in the distant future which are not wanted now.
I did not suggest it.Any chance of you explaining why it is OK for you to suggest this:
No, of course you didn't.I did not suggest it.
Instead of presumably having unwanted connectors in the back box for one of the cables, why not connect both cables to the existing socket?
This would give you 5mm² (2 x 2.5mm² in parallel) conductors to your new socket - and the same if you decide to add more at some time in the future.
Given that you will have to run a cable from the existing socket to the new one, why not run 2 cables and keep them all on the ring? (If it is a ring, which it probably is)
Why would I suggest it - having just dismissed the proposal as absolutely pointless - and then go on to describe why it is?
Instead of presumably having unwanted connectors in the back box for one of the cables, why not connect both cables to the existing socket?
This would give you 5mm² (2 x 2.5mm² in parallel) conductors to your new socket - and the same if you decide to add more at some time in the future.
Yup.How would this work? Take one of the original cables from the ring into the original socket, new cable from same socket to next socket, then new cable from second socket back to the other original cable from the ring? Would you connect them with terminal block then in the original back box, or am I missing something? I installed some spurs in my house, but would have preferred to extend the ring, so is the method i described correct?
Here we go again.
@bobbleoff if this degenerates into the usual 3 pages of point scoring, please ignore.
If you get really fed up send me a PM or start a private conversation and I’ll advise.
TTC - I suggest you take it up with EFLI, who was the one who started giving incorrect advice.
I cannot, and will not, accept responsibility for the fallout from challenging incorrect advice, and I cannot, and will not, allow it to go unchallenged for the sake of avoiding an argument...
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