Hi,
Currently my driveway has been dug up and building walls and pillars. Sometime in near future I plan to get electric iron gates. I have decided I will use underground CAME Frog AE24v gate motors. The control panel for this takes a 230V supply and then has its own transformer to convert this to 24v.
So I need to run some SWA cable about 30m from my garage where the main consumer unit is to the gate pillar. I am unclear on the CAME specs. It says the motor draws 15 Amps and yet it say the in the install manual the main supply to control panel should be at least 6 Amps.
Will it be good enough to run 2.5mm SWA cable 30 metres for this motor? I also plan to have some lights on the pillars and some spike lights around the lawn and hedges. Plan to use low power energy efficient bulbs so it shouldn't be more than 1000w in total. I am hoping to supply these from the same cable from the gate pillar, although I will probably need to use a waterproof FCU at the gate pillar to protect the lighting circuit from the 2.5mm cable. I understand that if I make this 2.5mm supply from the garage a radial then it can support up to 20amps.
Does this sound right and so I can go ahead with laying 2.5mm SWA cable?
Thanks
Currently my driveway has been dug up and building walls and pillars. Sometime in near future I plan to get electric iron gates. I have decided I will use underground CAME Frog AE24v gate motors. The control panel for this takes a 230V supply and then has its own transformer to convert this to 24v.
So I need to run some SWA cable about 30m from my garage where the main consumer unit is to the gate pillar. I am unclear on the CAME specs. It says the motor draws 15 Amps and yet it say the in the install manual the main supply to control panel should be at least 6 Amps.
Will it be good enough to run 2.5mm SWA cable 30 metres for this motor? I also plan to have some lights on the pillars and some spike lights around the lawn and hedges. Plan to use low power energy efficient bulbs so it shouldn't be more than 1000w in total. I am hoping to supply these from the same cable from the gate pillar, although I will probably need to use a waterproof FCU at the gate pillar to protect the lighting circuit from the 2.5mm cable. I understand that if I make this 2.5mm supply from the garage a radial then it can support up to 20amps.
Does this sound right and so I can go ahead with laying 2.5mm SWA cable?
Thanks