The question is:
Is having an air con unit being fed by a supply that goes through an outdoor IP66 RCD-socket unit against any regs?
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Long story short, we moved into a new house and it appeared the air-con unit in the conservatory was dead.
Turns out it does work - it's actually on a separate 20a circuit from the consumer, which runs as an armoured cable buried around the side of the house to the conservatory.
The cable goes to an outdoor IP66 single-socket-with-RCD-switch, it passed through this IP66 unit and enters the conservatory.
It powers another single (no RCD) socket on the other side of the conservatory.
It also feeds the air con unit.
(Turns out the RCD just needed resetting as it had tripped)
Mains sockets in the conservatory are on the downstairs mains supply.
Lights are on the downstairs lights supply.
Only the outdoor sockets and aircon unit are on this 20a supply.
I'm aware that due to the power fluctations of an aircon unit, depending on how hard it has to work, it may trip the RCD (or at least, that's what I've read).
Cheers!
Is having an air con unit being fed by a supply that goes through an outdoor IP66 RCD-socket unit against any regs?
--
Long story short, we moved into a new house and it appeared the air-con unit in the conservatory was dead.
Turns out it does work - it's actually on a separate 20a circuit from the consumer, which runs as an armoured cable buried around the side of the house to the conservatory.
The cable goes to an outdoor IP66 single-socket-with-RCD-switch, it passed through this IP66 unit and enters the conservatory.
It powers another single (no RCD) socket on the other side of the conservatory.
It also feeds the air con unit.
(Turns out the RCD just needed resetting as it had tripped)
Mains sockets in the conservatory are on the downstairs mains supply.
Lights are on the downstairs lights supply.
Only the outdoor sockets and aircon unit are on this 20a supply.
I'm aware that due to the power fluctations of an aircon unit, depending on how hard it has to work, it may trip the RCD (or at least, that's what I've read).
Cheers!