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Even though its not actually over 32A, I would be unhappy with having an connected to a standard / non-uprated way in a wylex standard board (as it appears OP has) because an EVSE will be pulling on the limit for that way and pulling it for hours at a time. Plus the majority of these boards had...

I'm assuming you have the standard setup of 45A switch above the counter top, and connection unit below? in that case, come off the connection point under the counter but please make sure it stays accessible (hole in back of unit, etc) While you could subsitute 6mm for 4mm, a 13A socket is not...

Assuming its not directly on the ring, or is supplied by a 13A fused spur inside. Then another option would be a black IP rated DIN rail enclosure, unfortunatly they don't seem to sell the enclosures separatly, only made up for the EVSE industry, but not too dear...

I'm assuming these appliances are in the same vicinity and quite near the cooker circuit? In that case, just wire two single sockets as a 4mm radial from your existing cooker connection unit. If the Microwave happens to be on the other side of the kitchen, you'd be better just comming off the...

Not if there is already a type AC device upstream

Yes...However.... The thing is, you don't find out thats what it is for until you're struggling with a fault on a circuit, have convinced yourself that it probably has connections behind that blank plate, and have struggled for 15mins with a stanley blade trying to separate it from the tiles...

Schneider Acti9 Isobar P Type A SPN Board, Expect to pay About £70 per RCBO and another couple of hundred for the board itself and incommer .... Well you did ask!

I think you are almost along the right lines, but I doubt 15Meg ohm is unlikely to do anything, and of course you should be aware that putting a resistive load across the supply will waste some energy as heat, likely not significant for your bill, but you do need to be careful of where its...

@SUNRAY has understood the current situation differently to me, I understood it as both the switch drops went to the 2 gang switch, and then there were two 3cores wired conversion method to 2 gangs of the 3 gang switch that he wanted to use the remaining switch for an outside light. Rather than...

You could do this, remember to sleeve appropiatly as one grey is a line and the other is a neutral

Took me a moment or two to parse that diagram on a sunday morning, but got there (I think!) So your T/E for you new outside light goes back to a three gang switch, the other two ways are two way-ed with three cores in the conversion method from a two gang switch that has the swicth drops from...

The recent-ish generation of HO and HE long T5 tubes were always intended to be driven with HF ballasts, and I'm guessing theres likely to be reasons why trying to design a fitting that used a magnetic choke t drive them might be difficult ot impracticable. There were earlier T5 tubes that were...

Sorry I think I read it the wrong way around as to which is existing/repalcement before. Just to clarify 3000k is the warm white, 3450k is the not so warm white (a neutral white if it were).

It'll be less of a warm white, compared to the existing, but will not be a harsh cold white, you'll probably see the difference if you have a 3000k next to it (would bother some folk, but not others), but if you are changing them all, it'll not make much of a difference

Here's a worrying thought: This thread was started in 2006 with the question on kitchen sink bonding; that date is now closer to a point at which the 15th edition was still current, than it is to the present day

Likely one of these https://flameport.com/electric_museum/old_equipment/mem_fusebox_4way_enclosed_metal.cs4 built in a very similar case to the re-wireable 60A switchfuses of the day :-)

The two screws come out and allow the front to come off when the main switch is off. Usually you get two 30A carriers, and either two 15A, or one 15A and one 5A. these were used for standard domestic installations where you would have a 30A sockets ring, 30A cooker, 15A immersion heater and 5A...

Plugtop fuses have slightly worse characteristics than other OCPDs though; A plugtop fuse will hold an overload of 1.6x its rating for a minimum of 30minutes, but must clear a 1.9x overload in 30minutes. I'm pretty sure 60898 MCBs are required to disconnect a 1.45x overload in 30minutes. The...

No, there is no fusing down in a cooker control unit, its an isolator with a switched single socket added to it

Presuming that is how it was found, and that you hadn't removed the cover before the photograph, then yes thats most certainly a C1, it also would get heavy duty tape to cover over exposed live parts and unsheathed cores and an electrical danger notice. Nice to know the Electrical Safety...