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Ok thank you

Ok thanks for your ongoing advice, I was hoping they would be the outcome. At the moment I've just terminated the armour to the earth terminal in the metal backbox in the shed so really I can just cut it off?

Sorry if I haven't answered your question before now. The socket is earthed via the earth wire of the 3 core swa, which traces back to the earth of the house. So if I don't have the room for another gland kit at the shed is there another way? If the armour is earthed at the wiska box why does it...

I've updated and attached my diagram after carrying out the work, and included my question. So the swa armour is earthed at the wiska box back at the external wall of the house but I'm unsure how to handle it's termination in the metal clad double gang socket in the shed, if at all?

The shed is just a standalone wooden shed with no metallics in the form of pipework etc. I don't have the room to use another gland but if the armor is earthed at the other end, back at the house, then doesn't this give it a safe route to earth? At the moment the armor is terminated to the earth...

I have now completed this work and everything seems ok but I have a lingering doubt over the earthing arrangements in the shed. The 6 sq mm swa armour is earthed in a junction box on the outside wall of the house so with a gland kit and banjo it is earthed by connecting it to the earth of the...

ah yes so it's 16w / 240v = 0.067A ?

Yes good point, but I think I've got some 1.5 sq mm cable knocking about so it saves buying some 1.0! Actually I was looking at a 16 watt LED light fitting and using the basic equation and mains voltage, it works out to about 0.7A - peanuts

Thank you for your advice, and for the praise of my diagram! The final ring circuit, of which the 13A FCU, starts and ends at a RCD on the consumer unit, which was only fitted about 4 years ago, so this should cover the angles? The SWA run is about 25 metres. I used an online calculator on the...

Greetings and apologies for my basic diagram, but hopefully it serves its explanatory purposes. Can I operate the shed lighting using a 3A switched FCU in this way? Also do the live and neutral of the load terminals simply connect to the two terminals of the light fitting, and can I use 1.5 sq...