Recent content by alanellicott

Thanks everyone - makes sense

I have just acquired a D150 Space Heater which runs on propane gas. I will be using it in a large badly sealed and drafty workspace (not domestic). It says on it that it must be used with 47kg gas cylinder. Can anyone tell me why this is. Is it not possible to use a smaller cylinder?

I do realise I could use an in line fuse.

Well everything is fine now and the shower is working absolutely OK. I have decided to leave the fan out of the equation and wire it separately and I am thinking of doing the following. We need the function of the timer on the fan but I do not wish to wire it into the lighting curcuit...

EFLImpudence said "If a rewirable fuse is used the cable's current carrying capacity should have been derated by 0.725 which would result in it not being suitable. It will be alright with the mcb." Yes I mean one of them. Thanks again for sensible help.

Am happy now. I have just redone the terminal connections and done another test running it at 9.7kw for 20 minutes and have hardly (if anything) warming taking place. I reckon I had a bad (reduced) connection before. But just as an extra precaution I am going to invest in a 40amp MCB tomorrow...

I'm getting the hang of this forum now and my problem is evidently not unique and there are lots of discussions. I realise I am only trying to convince myself that I don't need to replace the 6mm with 10mm as that would require re-tiling part of the bathroom!!! But........ I have now run the...

Thanks for the link to the cable sizes chart. Definitely 6mm2 as outer cover is over 13mm * 7mm + I have read elsewhere that shower cables can get warm so could they be OK?

Sorry meant amps not watts re 50 amp switch

I have now purchased a new 45 amp ceiling switch and wired it up without the fan for the moment and I have a problem. I switched the shower on and ran it at full heat (This is a 9.7 kw) shower and after about 5 minutes the supply side wiring (both live and neutral) both started getting hot -...

Many thanks. Makes a lot of sense. I guess the ceiling fan would be quite low wattage so it must have been the shower that pushed the switch over the edge. I think the fan will be happy on a 5 amp circuit.

I have just replaced a 9.5kw shower with another 9.5 KW shower (triton) and I initially noticed that the pull switch on the ceiling was having difficulty "engaging". By this I mean that I had to pull the switch a few times before the red light would come on even though the bathroom fan would...