Hello,
I have been wanting to sort out the electrics in the garage for a while now and since were on lock down what better time to do it. So at present the garage electrics come from a 16Amp fuse which is in the consumer unit with an RCD. The issue is every time the electrics trip in the garage the RCD trips in the house and everything goes off which means the other half is none to pleased. The smaller consumer unit in the garage has a main switch of 63Amps and a fuse for the sockets and a fuse for the lights. With no RCD apart from the one in the house.
The setup of the wiring is that one 2.5mm cable goes from the 16Amp fuse labeled sockets goes to one socket and from there there are 8 more double sockets which come off this and it doesnt go back to the consumer unit.
The lighting is 1.5mm cable which goes to 4 double LED tubes one after the other and again doesn't go back to the consumer unit. I'm not sure if it should or not go back to the consumer unit, as I have read that it should to create a ring circuit but also the opposite where it should just end of the last light fitting.
First question is would this be OK with the layout of the sockets and the lighting? If not why not? I am assuming that the sockets should go back to the consumer unit to create a ring circuit given that lots of power tools are used in the sockets?
The second thing is ideally I would want an RCD in the garage so that if it trips then it only trips the garage and not the whole house. What would be the best way of doing this? I am guessing I Would need to purchase a new consumer unit with an RCD in it as the current one has no space to put anything new.
Thanks
I have been wanting to sort out the electrics in the garage for a while now and since were on lock down what better time to do it. So at present the garage electrics come from a 16Amp fuse which is in the consumer unit with an RCD. The issue is every time the electrics trip in the garage the RCD trips in the house and everything goes off which means the other half is none to pleased. The smaller consumer unit in the garage has a main switch of 63Amps and a fuse for the sockets and a fuse for the lights. With no RCD apart from the one in the house.
The setup of the wiring is that one 2.5mm cable goes from the 16Amp fuse labeled sockets goes to one socket and from there there are 8 more double sockets which come off this and it doesnt go back to the consumer unit.
The lighting is 1.5mm cable which goes to 4 double LED tubes one after the other and again doesn't go back to the consumer unit. I'm not sure if it should or not go back to the consumer unit, as I have read that it should to create a ring circuit but also the opposite where it should just end of the last light fitting.
First question is would this be OK with the layout of the sockets and the lighting? If not why not? I am assuming that the sockets should go back to the consumer unit to create a ring circuit given that lots of power tools are used in the sockets?
The second thing is ideally I would want an RCD in the garage so that if it trips then it only trips the garage and not the whole house. What would be the best way of doing this? I am guessing I Would need to purchase a new consumer unit with an RCD in it as the current one has no space to put anything new.
Thanks