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Hear, Hear!! :D

...and remember if you put a sprocket outside, it must be protected by an RCD. Very highly recommended even if inside the garage - you should never use equipment outside that is not protected with an RCD (and a fixed one is better than a plug-in one, cos there is no risk that they have been...

yep, overheads are OK as long as they are well supported and the right type of cable (ie not vulnerable to moisture, for instance SWA). And obviously as long as they are high enough!! I didn't get sunburned. Hardly even tanned. Not for want of trying. Hey-ho!! :D

Have a look at this: http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3508

Hi, A bit complex, but here you go: I'm assuming that you have a split consumer unit with half of it protected by the RCD? Also, I am assuming it's an RCD with 30mA trip rating? If It's 100mA you will need to fit a 30mA for the shed (the wording suggests it will be 3omA). 63A will be...

Trendy Wine Bars? Swindon? Ha Ha! If I was rich, I'm certainly not now! Still, had a real good holiday.

Hi Guys, Just to put my bit in. Breezer is correct, you don't have to use SWA with an internal earth conductor, but I would always do so (thereby using both the armour and internal conductor). Copper is always the best conductor, and is easier to test (you have to test steel earths with a...

I'll be stood at Gatwick with a sign saying 'Mrs Scoby_Beasley, please get home, your husband has finished all the booze and is starting to drink the cat's water'!! Ah, well, by this time tomorrow night, most of my blood will have been replaced by alcohol, so I won't care :twisted:

D'oh!!!! :shock: :D

I'm off for a week to Spain, place called Javier, I think, for some reason can't remember exactly. Looking forward to it. Apart from the flight. Don't like flying.. Hmmm, virgins..... Scoby had better save me a bottle of Grolsh then :D Have a good one... P

At least BT will fix it - probably quite quickly as well - a competent and friendly engineer will fix your problem, even if they do find an excuse to charge you! I had, for a painful and frustrating 18 months, phone lines from a well-known cable firm. They made BT look like a shining...

Breezer is correct, main Isolators are always at one side (apart from some industrial 3-phase CUs). Scoby is correct that it's always best practice to put the biggest breakers near the main isolators. It's not a requirement of the Regs though, just recognised good practice. Don't sweat too...

What do you mean scoby? I'm only 17 :wink: Welll... Ok, not before my time as in before I was born. Before I was a sparks maybe :D

Tricky one that. I would have to slightly disagree with breezer on this one. Most sparks would agree this is an acceptable way around the problem in certain circumstances, because it prevents the overload. I have fitted fused connection units when customers have wired spurs from spurs and it...

Sorry to put a downer on this one, but one further thought, should have mentioned it before: If you have found a fitting where someone cut the earth wires back, be very careful - if this has been done on other fittings, the chances are that there is no continuous earth on the circuit, so even...

If your lighting wires are just two core cables (black and red but no earth), then your lighting system will probebly need rewiring - there is no safe or acceptable way to steal an earth from elsewhere. Basically, any lighting circuits with no earths need to be replaced. This is even more of a...

D'OH!!! :shock:

Well said Gees, Our old friend Diversity - ie, well designed circuits should never run at full load. As an interesting (perhaps) aside, based on an overloaded installation I looked at a few years ago (with warm cables, MCBs, the lot), I reckon a 2.5mm cable will start to get warm at about...

Chris, I'm not sure what it would cost to upgrade the supply - used to come accross it now and again, but can't remember what the local supplier charged. It's usually cheaper in a town where there is often a 3 -phase supply wire in the street - just a case of digging a shart trench into...

yes, but this is not a major risk, 2A above rated current - in some cases the cable is rated to that anyway, I just use 24A as an average figure - a current rating of a cable depends on how it is installed, for instance the rating is lower if buried under plaster, higher if clipped on the...