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I notice your sour reputation precedes you by some years. Banned from ultimatehandyman.co.uk, shunned on ScrewFix forums. This being the only place left you can practice your negativity? Why am I not surprised you reacted the way you did in this thread.

Look I feel this thread has got a little out of hand. I only came here to find out how to complete the job safely. I only quoted the regulation because I feel its a little ambiguous, and as a newbie it could be open to misinterpretation.

You obviously think it's acceptable to scorn and berate new members. I found this thread below, which I hope JohnW2 doesn't mind me posting, but it details using the G/Y core for live, which is potentially dangerous. //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=273240 And your exact...

I don't follow the point you're making. The guy did quote regulation 514.4.2. He interpretted it in his own words below yes, but it's already been agreed in this thread you can infact use the CPC in multicore cables for other purposes.

Well there must be instances where it's done, otherwise why wouldn't the regs explicitly prohibit oversleeving the CPC in multicore cables?

Once again, I already made clear it's not acceptable to oversleeve an exposed CPC like in T+E. But you can oversleeve with a different colour the insulated CPC of a multicore cable.

The person in question was quoting the regulations.

Showing your true colours now. You can't give any meaningful advice, only abuse. This forum is a place for asking questions and learning, haven't you grasped that concept yet? You can quite plausibly leave a cable with no cpc for double insulated devices. It may not be good practice, but...

I'm afraid to say, more idle rhetoric from you. If everybody had a full and genuine understanding of electrics, would this forum even exist, other than for the likes of egocentrics like yourself to go about congratulating yourselves on your immense knowledge of electrics?? Somebody else has...

The circuit never even saw any current, so regardless of how I wired it, I still took the necessary precaution to check its safety. So your reproach is not only unhelpful, it's unwarranted. It seems while a lot of decent folk are on this forum who are willing to assist and help, a certain...

Hold on, no need to berate me. I'm asking to see IF it was safe, or is that so reprehensible. Would you prefer people didn't ask at all? Anyway, the PIR sensor is double insulated + IP44 rated and the outside part of the cable is only 15cm at most. But I suppose best practice is to get...

I've got a PIR sensor I'm wiring outside. It has connections for L / N / L1 (Switched live) The cable I have is only two core + earth (uninsulated). I wired the earth core to neutral on the sensor, obviously I will connect it to neutral at the other end. Is this potentially unsafe...