Search results

You could have gone straight from the rose to the switch and from the switch to the light using T&E. No flex (though there's no harm in using flex) and no fused connection units. A security light is not an appliance; have you been speaking to your mate at Focus again... :?: :lol: . You only...

From the sound of it your plans would not comply with the wiring regs because you can't just pull a single core cable down the conduit with a T&E (except in some circumstances). A tip for you....use 1.0mm 3C+E not 1.5mm 3C+E. This works nearly every time, the 1.0mm is just that bit smaller and...

The idea of a Baxi Maxflow combi was offered to me today as an alternative to a full-blown unvented (which was my plan) system. Having looked at the Baxi website it apparently combines a combi with a 54 litre unvented storage tank. Has anyone had any experience with them, either good or bad? I...

Ambient Temperature, Grouping, Thermal Insulation and Re-wirable fuses are the correction factors to be accounted for (as well as volt drop and R1+R2 etc). Is that what you mean Scoby? I'll post some info if you want me to (?), but you're unlikely to use it (I rarely do in a domestic situation).

Steel conduit is ok for short spans but not longer runs. The IEE on-site guide has all the heights and lengths etc you can run between buildings and is dependant on lots of things. When I was a kid we had a catenary wire with a T&E strapped to it, not recommended; it never came to any harm but...

Fused spur to the ceiling rose? If you've come from the ceiling rose to supply the security light there was no need for the fused spur because the MCB protecting the lighting circuit will already be suitable, probably 6A or 10A. As for the garage socket, it will be a spur from the ring, not a...

It might also be worth investigating a plumbed in system. 3-phase is a whole new ball game and would mean lots of changes; not recommended for the DIYer. Investigate both and then see what you think.

Are the two new cables the same size? What size are they? It's possible it's a radial but unlikely in a house. What number and size breakers have you got in your consumer unit? I would say fitting a smaller consumer in place of the socket is unlikely to be an option though whether it's a spur...

I was going to ask you that...I wondered how you had 3 cables and two were used for the conservatory. Looks like Mr Conservatory has been naughty. You say the lights are spurred from the socket? Without a fused spur? I'd say it's more than one too many...if that socket is itself a spur, then the...

Aha...a grey area. The question is whether or not a flush metal back-box can be classed as an extranreous-conductive-part. Extraneous conductive parts are requiured to be connected to a protective conductor (earth) and are defined as follows 'A conductive part of equipment which can be touched...

Yep you can take a feed off the socket to supply a fused connection unit (fused spur) and then connect both the conservarory and security light to the 'load' side of it, as long as you've considered whether or not your load will exceed the 13A in the spur. Or you can run a bit of mini-trunking...

You presume wrong :!: You'll need to take it from the light not the switch because your switch only has live conductors at it, not a neutral :!: Wasted weekend then :lol: :wink:

Not to my knowledge Gees, all the socket testers I've come across have the same problem. Because generally earth and neutral are at the same potential, it's difficult for the tester to identify which is which. You're quite right, my loop tester also won't identify a neutral earth cross-over...

Be careful folks, these things are not fool-proof and will not tell you about neutral and earth reversals for example. It's not a loop impedance tester either, it only gives you a ball-park figure. The idea of loop testing is to ensure that your loop impedance value is within the limiting values...

This is normal for a building of that age, I'm not old enough to know for sure (though breezer will probably know :lol: ), but I think it was sometime in the 70's that they started to provide an earth in the lighting circuits, and it was probably fairly early in that decade. The fact that it has...

johnl, when you say single cables, do you mean singles(no over sheath)? Or are the cables of an oval construction with two inner cores (one red and one black) and a grey or white over sheath? Or a black rubber oversheath?

Spot on Scoby :idea:

How do you do that breezer? :oops: How do you put those words in that link to web addresses? It could really save me time and space in some of my posts :!: :mrgreen: Thanks

This is a UK forum and our system is completely different to yours. :roll: If you browse this forum you'll find many other US based questions and you will also find links to US based forums.

Technically, breezer is correct and I think the regulations you may find useful are the 'Electricity Supply Regulations'. In reality, what your friends say is probably true. Lot's of people do pull the fuse, including me. I have never had any come back, BUT I am a competant person AND I can...