Recent content by jm317

thanks very helpful.

I'm sure there is more than one way to do this & I like to be informed. JM

Hi I have a query before I approach my local electrician & local CC: I'd like to run just a small 100L chest freezer in my shed 20 meters from the Tenby consumer unit in the house (all Sockets are on RCDs). The freezer (150W) draws a couple of amps & 750 peak watts when the compressor is...

Good point but that is what I'm trying to do. This is what the wiki's say for two lamps (5th image from bottom). One switch is untouched and works fine on Yellow on com and L1 on Red. Second switch has red, black, blue with brown loop which according to the wiki goes between com to supply...

Neutrals never used in switches Live usally goes to COM Switched Live (Black) red collar goes to live in lamp So a switch is just interupting a live feed in and out to the lamp hence the collar system. Pre 1977 colour system has Live as Red, Yellow and Blue depending on phase level and...

OK, The neutrals should be bundled according to the wiki, so I'll take Blk (neutral ?) out of L1 keeping the COMs live with the brown loop I'll put red into 1L instead that still leaves me Blue and Blk which I'm now guessing are both neutrals and should be put in block together behind the...

Hi I have a light problem and a challenge .... I have a 2 way 1 gang each with a kitchen light working on a Yellow to (COM) and BLK to (L1) working fine ... but the understairs lamp on the 2nd switch ( same box) has a Red, Blk, Blue and a brown loop. The lamp it supplies just has BLK and...

Yes, the installation is old ~ circa 1973. With regards the cooker installation the 6mm cable that comes in from the wall goes to a 30A junction box to 2.5mm to a double socket, to the plugged appliances. The appliances are new and came with plugs attached. The appliance cables are the...

The rest of the kitchen and ground floor is supplied by a 30A ring. Usual stuff TV, video, DVD, Kettle, fridge, extractor, toaster etc. cheers JM

Well it could have been a really old washing machine..... Microwave: 0.9kW Oven: 2.2kW Hob: 6.7kW (wow) Washing machine 1.2kW Total 11kW I'm all out of watts ? any suggestions ?

OK.....you got me there!!!!!!! You just can't trust google .. I'll get the numbers........ I'LL BE BACK........

OK...you have little imagination and gonna make me work for a little information. I didn't say I'm gonna touch anything and blow myself up.. I'm just asking. So the standard nominal supply voltage in domestic single-phase 50 Hz installations in the UK is 230 V. The cooker is on a 30A fuse...

The question is can a cooker ring circuit be used to supply spurs to run other domestic appliances and is my proposed solution reasonable ? I'm in the UK, the cooker circuit is direct from the consumer box and the kitchen has its own ring circuit which I assume is part of the ground floor...

Hi Here is the problem. I need at least one spur from a cooker ring circuit is this setup OK ? Mains wires come into the kitchen to a 30A junction box a 2.5mm twin and earth cable drops to a double socket that runs a plugged ceramic hob and single oven on 13Amp fuses and plugs. A spur...