I have a 20A mcb supplied radial circuit for my garage.
I would like in place of one of the twin 13A outlets put in a single industrial 16 outlets.
Physically all easy enough to achieve ... intent was to put a 20A dp switch on one side of a dual socket box, and a blanking plate on other with industrial socket fixed onto that blanking plate.
Then thoughts kicked in ... fuse discrimination ? ........... as the outlets is then 16A .. and it is fed from a 20A mcb, do I need to fuse this outlet, and if so how do I achieve this ... fused spurs units only take up to 13A cartridge fuses.
How (assuming I need to) do I fuse ? ..........
I suppose a simple way would be to change mcb to 16A ... but that does lose me the capacity to run multiple outlets up to 40A ... in practice probably not an issue.
I would like in place of one of the twin 13A outlets put in a single industrial 16 outlets.
Physically all easy enough to achieve ... intent was to put a 20A dp switch on one side of a dual socket box, and a blanking plate on other with industrial socket fixed onto that blanking plate.
Then thoughts kicked in ... fuse discrimination ? ........... as the outlets is then 16A .. and it is fed from a 20A mcb, do I need to fuse this outlet, and if so how do I achieve this ... fused spurs units only take up to 13A cartridge fuses.
How (assuming I need to) do I fuse ? ..........
I suppose a simple way would be to change mcb to 16A ... but that does lose me the capacity to run multiple outlets up to 40A ... in practice probably not an issue.