Search results

Now I'm confused on the consensus. So how do people protect bell wire?

Well a in my house: Kettle 3kw fridge 0.2kw hair-dryer 2.8kw oven 4kw halagon flood light 0.5kw TV + skybox 0.3KW (32inch) shower 9.8kw boiler 0.1kw Just an idea

The supply voltage drops for every meter of cable you have. So the supply end may be 240v the other end maybe 200v to over come this you normally install a thicker cable. I believe the tolerance of this is 3% for lighting circuits and 5% non lighting circuits. With that in mind the...

Well looking at the TLC voltage drop it may be able to take 2.7 kw over that distance I hope you don't want to boil a kettle!!

Thanks BAS but if you created a short in the 12v side would it trip and RCD on the 230v side I'm not convinced it would. Surly as the two side are not physically connected in the transformer all that would happen is that more current would flow on the 12v side until the protecting device...

First of all I'm no spark and i completely understand that work on the consumer unit in this was my abide to Part P but i have two questions on fitting a Bell Transformer 1) I know you have to provide over current protection for the transformer but what about Earth leakage? I have been...

Why the double post didn't get the answer first time? http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=247011

Ok most light are a radial circuit on 1 or 1.5mm twin and earth (Now days anyway) It is also possible to have radial circuits on socket circuits but normally you would increase the cable size to get the same ampage as a ring http://www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:socket_circuits May give...

I think NNJ is braided core better for temp solutions Hi tuff is solid core better for fixed Hopefully some one can confirm this

http://www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:lighting:lighting_circuit_layouts Did you struggle with this layout?

Just a quick question and excuses my ignorance now! Should 2.5mm cable really be protected by a 30A fuse unless its a ring?

The house was built around 1955. As it was a cupboard i dont think it would affect fire regs as the door is half height too Was hoping to use blocks as opposed to stud due to wanting to hang a bit more weight. Am i guessing it is near impossible to get anything smaller than 100mm was...

I have a cupboard over the stairs which has a door into a bed room and the landing. I wish to remove the door from the bedroom and block it up! The wall is made of what looks like 80mm or 3 inch concrete blocks which seem to almost a tongue and grove along the vertical edge. Do these...

They where both approved and the same just the manufacture was different! So was questioning why some one would pay an extra £10 for the same 100m of 2.5 just because its Prysmian

I went into B&Q the other day and saw 3 types of 2.5mm twin and earth same length and standard but different prices and manufactures Is their a preferred cable manufacture or is it just a con?

RTF a 2 minute Google found the light you have: http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9371858&ecamp=trf-005&CAWELAID=266964282 It has motion detector and ambient light sensor which will need to be adjusted to pick the correct light level to come on It also...

It not a case of that I'm curious to the use of a 30 amp fuse and if this was correct. Im no spark but understand more than the general Joe Bloggs

As i put in my edit i ment to put oven though i didn't think i mattered as i though Cooker was a general term. According to the book their should be a 20 amp double pole switch installed for oven and 45amp for oven +hob BTW i have non That would suggest 20amp fuse would have been ok but i...

I have a cooker install currently protected buy a 30amp rewire-able fuse, The max rating of the cooker is 5.5kw To me this does not seem quite right! Yes i know 5500/230 = 23.9 amps but if you apply cooker diversity 10 + 30% of remainder (4.1) = 14amp +- 5 for extra plug socket But...