Broken Ring

[dunny]

I mentioned the other day in my thread about compressor wiring that I have a socket in the living room that has a disconnected cable due to having melted at some point in the past.

It has been playing on my mind a little since. Is this situation dangerous?

I susumu the danger lies in some one touching the disconnected cable but to do this anyway you would need to take the socket front off. I have put the phase conductor into a connector block just to be on the safe side. The other wires are melted too far back for me to put into a block.

I will now have 2 radial circuits instead of a ring. Is this an issue?

Thanks

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[Taylortwocities]

Yes it is an issue. It sounds like the circuit that you have is a ring and the fuse/MCB will therefore be sized for a ring (32A?)
By disconnecting one half you have turned the circuit into a radial and (depending on the cable size) the fuse/MCB size for this needs to be lower or the cable can fry/catch light in the event of a fault.

You have two options
1. repair the cable - this is the proper way to do it
2. replace the fuse/MCB with a fuse appropriate for a radial - this will probably be 20amps depending on the cable size used for the circuit and the CPD options for your consumer unit.

 

[dunny]

Thanks.

There are bound to be multiple horror stories in my wiring. Need the spark out ASAP to,at least address this issue and sort my compressor out.

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