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griffbabe
Hey All,
Can you help me with this?
I have a portacabin with a full compliment of electrics and RCD board.
I want to connect to the house mains.
Generally cabin will run 1200watt heater, 25 watts of LED lights and a modest collection of musical equipment centered around a computer, really nothing heavy.
There is a cable installed already underground that I would like to use, this was put in by previous tenents but is unterminated at either end.
Its a 2.5mm armoured cable which seems heavy enough.
Have looked to hire electricians but very expensive and they are reluctant to make use of original cable even though its already been signed off.
Presently I run the cabins RCD from a typical extension cable and it seems fine so far.
So some questions...
1) Why cant I just stick a plug on the armoured cable and replace the extension cable with it. Whats the dangers here?
2) Is there not a plug in option I could use to terminate the armoured cable and protect the circuit without spurring or having to rip open a wall?
3) Can I run the kind of wattage Im drawing off a standard 13amp plug?
If anyones got any great simple workarounds or know of products designed to make this easy please let me know!
Thanks!
Can you help me with this?
I have a portacabin with a full compliment of electrics and RCD board.
I want to connect to the house mains.
Generally cabin will run 1200watt heater, 25 watts of LED lights and a modest collection of musical equipment centered around a computer, really nothing heavy.
There is a cable installed already underground that I would like to use, this was put in by previous tenents but is unterminated at either end.
Its a 2.5mm armoured cable which seems heavy enough.
Have looked to hire electricians but very expensive and they are reluctant to make use of original cable even though its already been signed off.
Presently I run the cabins RCD from a typical extension cable and it seems fine so far.
So some questions...
1) Why cant I just stick a plug on the armoured cable and replace the extension cable with it. Whats the dangers here?
2) Is there not a plug in option I could use to terminate the armoured cable and protect the circuit without spurring or having to rip open a wall?
3) Can I run the kind of wattage Im drawing off a standard 13amp plug?
If anyones got any great simple workarounds or know of products designed to make this easy please let me know!
Thanks!