Hi there,
My mother lives in a flat with Economy 7. One of the storage heaters was removed before she moved in, and so we're left with an Economy 7 spur. She has asked me if it's possible to convert the unused spur to a plug socket, so she can have a lamp there.
I'm thinking of replacing the spur with a single 13A switched socket and swapping over the spur cable from the E7 CU to the standard CU. My only concern is the spur cable.
The cable looks like 1.5mm and it's running to a 16A breaker so I'm assuming it'll be okay for use with the single socket, but looking in the standard CU I see that I'll be connecting the spur to a 32A breaker (plug socket ring main), so would this be allowed, seeing as cable must be rated at least to the rating of the breaker (as far as I'm aware)? I'll never run a spur from the spur, if that makes sense, so the total load would never exceed 13A, but meh, I know there are proper ways of doing these things...
The load on the socket will be less than an amp, but of course diversity etc means that the socket should be safe for up to 13A, correct?
Thanks in advance
My mother lives in a flat with Economy 7. One of the storage heaters was removed before she moved in, and so we're left with an Economy 7 spur. She has asked me if it's possible to convert the unused spur to a plug socket, so she can have a lamp there.
I'm thinking of replacing the spur with a single 13A switched socket and swapping over the spur cable from the E7 CU to the standard CU. My only concern is the spur cable.
The cable looks like 1.5mm and it's running to a 16A breaker so I'm assuming it'll be okay for use with the single socket, but looking in the standard CU I see that I'll be connecting the spur to a 32A breaker (plug socket ring main), so would this be allowed, seeing as cable must be rated at least to the rating of the breaker (as far as I'm aware)? I'll never run a spur from the spur, if that makes sense, so the total load would never exceed 13A, but meh, I know there are proper ways of doing these things...
The load on the socket will be less than an amp, but of course diversity etc means that the socket should be safe for up to 13A, correct?
Thanks in advance