A 2.5mm radial is not expensive?? Or do you mean a 4mm? As has been said, no need to run a 20a radial in 4mm, and I'd like to know where you can get 6mm cheaper than 4mm!!
1.5mm T&E or 1.0mm T&E?
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A 2.5mm radial is not expensive?? Or do you mean a 4mm? As has been said, no need to run a 20a radial in 4mm, and I'd like to know where you can get 6mm cheaper than 4mm!!
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Been told some Duff Gen.... thanks.
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The reason the 1.5. is used for larger lighting circuits, is because the voltage drop requirements are more stringent on lighting circuits, and the longer length runs may cause performance issues with lighting circuits over a certain length.
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I worked for 2 firms who both insisted on using 1.5mm² for all lighting circuits. I still have no idea why.
I still keep a drum of 1.5mm² cable on my van but it's very rarely used.
I still keep a drum of 1.5mm² cable on my van but it's very rarely used.
I assume he means Londonderry, which is in the UK.
Although he doesn't actually know where places are, so nothing he says about what is available where can be given much credence.
I mean here as in Derry, and indeed the rest of Ireland.
No. I use CEF in the north rather than the south.
The reason CEF in the south do not stock it is because it is not permitted by ET101 to use 1mm^2 cables.
Are we arguing semantics here.
FACT:
Derry (=Londonderry) is in Northern Ireland (part of the UK).
It is situated on the island of Ireland.
In your view, which part of that is incorrect?
If that's true (and I have no reason to doubt you), that obviously explains things! However, it introduces potential confusion for UK readers that would probably best be left to the "Electrics outside UK" forum!
Kind Regards, John
I didn't intend to confuse matters, but someone posted a link to CEF in the south and postulated that they must have been sold out of a cable because it was so "popular", completely ignoring the fact that it was in fact prohibited in the area where it was (not) being sold.
FACT 1: The legal name for the city is Londonderry, not Derry.
FACT 2: The country it is in is not Ireland.
FACT 3: The flag in Risteard's profile information is not the flag of the country in which he lives.
I'm quite prepared to accept that he wishes that none of those facts were true, but for now they are, and his information is riddled with errors.
It was an attempt at humour as you seem to think you live there and CEF are rubbish.
Further proving my oft used "Never assume those in charge know what they are doing".
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