split load consumer

m240381 · Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 2 Location: United Kingdom

What fuses go on which circuit. I have upstairs lights, downstairs lights, upstairs sockets, downstairs sockets, Cooker, Alarm, garage, Shower, Utility room and immersion heater. I would like to know which circuit each of these go on in a split load consumer unit.

ban-all-sheds · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 2:47 pm

They should all be on their own circuits.

Why are you asking this? What do you really want to know? What are you thinking of doing?

il78 · Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 701 Location: United Kingdom

RCD Protected

Downstairs Sockets - 32A (if ringmain - 20A if radial)
Upstairs Sockets - 32A (as Above)
Shower 32A / 40A (depends on rating / RCD recommended)
Garage Supply (depends on what cable used)
Cooker 32A (depends on rating / RCD if socket combined)

NON RCD Protected

Immersion - 20A
Alarm - 6A (fuse spur usually connected to downrate again to 3A)
Upstairs Lights - 6A
Downstairs Lights - 6A

Utility Room - What have you got in there....sockets....ring or radial...

Are you replacing the board yourself.......if so...dont.....if you asking this question you aint competant (no offence)

ban-all-sheds · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:35 pm

il78 - you took the words right out of my head

il78 · Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 701 Location: United Kingdom

Great minds.....

securespark · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:45 pm

Not nit-picking, but some alarm panel manufacturers recommend a 2A fuse.

I never used to fit 2A, until a pcb from a well-known manufacturer went up in smoke. When they asked what mains fuse I had fitted , I said 3A.

Ha ha they said, it should be two. And I ended up funding a replacement pcb myself.

breezer · Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:09 pm

a 3 amp fuse is fine, what you have to consider is what fuse is in the fuse holder in the panel. (i do mean on the primary side of the transformer, but inside the panel)

securespark · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:49 am

Breezer

trying not to be picky, but here is extract from installation manual of ADE Accenta:

"Use a 2A fuse in the spur or at the distribution board."

ban-all-sheds · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:42 pm

Can you get 2A BS1362 fuses? Or 2A fusewire? Or 2A cartridge fuses for distribution boards? Or 2A MCBs?

breezer · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:33 pm

but not many people install ade panels because not many engineers can understand them (particularly the karizma) i wonder why?

Scoby_Beasley · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:04 pm

ban-all-sheds wrote:

Can you get 2A BS1362 fuses? Or 2A fusewire? Or 2A cartridge fuses for distribution boards? Or 2A MCBs?

Yup

ban-all-sheds · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:08 pm

Scoby_Beasley wrote:

ban-all-sheds wrote:

Can you get 2A BS1362 fuses? Or 2A fusewire? Or 2A cartridge fuses for distribution boards? Or 2A MCBs?

Yup

That's alright then.

securespark · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:31 pm

ADE happen to be in the NW at least, the most popular panel I come across. Apart from the Karisma which is long brown bread.

breezer · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:35 pm

its scantronic / menvier down here (up 't big road from london)

BFG · Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 27 Location: United Kingdom

il78 wrote:

.....if so...dont.....if you asking this question you aint competant (no offence)

So when split loads came out first, when time served electricians asked for info leaflet - in the time between asking for it and when it arrived, did they become incompetent?

I don't see why a request for the latest techincal information renders one incompetent. It is a very competent thing to ask for the latest information, rather than blunder on in ignorance.