This is a real one and might be interesting for some of you,
The boiler had a problem so naturally I went and turned on the immersion switches, I have 2 tanks and 2 boilers that work as one unit.
To my 'delight' I found that the immersion is not working, checked the wires from the MCB to the switches and there is power, but interestingly the wires in the switch that coming from the MCB and the ones that suppose to go the the tanks were shortened (so the switch was not effective), if so the immersion should be on permanently no? but no another exciting discovery was the fact that the wires instead going to the tanks were used for outlet sockets in the loft. I called the electrician that done the work (if I can call him so), and told him the story, he said that I asked for switches for the immersion in an accessible place and he put them in but I did not ask specifically to connect the immersion so he did not do it??????
my problem
I went a got 2 DP 20A switches + 2.5 mm2 flex heat resisting cable (the immersion is 3KW each. I intend to connect the 2 immersions in separate circuits (different wires) but ending in the same MCB/RCBO 32A. The problem is that if I use this MCB/RCBO for the immersion I will loose my outlet sockets in the loft. Is there any reason, assuming that the load is ok, that I could not pull from this circuit a fused spur and connect the outlet sockets to it
Thanks
Albert
The boiler had a problem so naturally I went and turned on the immersion switches, I have 2 tanks and 2 boilers that work as one unit.
To my 'delight' I found that the immersion is not working, checked the wires from the MCB to the switches and there is power, but interestingly the wires in the switch that coming from the MCB and the ones that suppose to go the the tanks were shortened (so the switch was not effective), if so the immersion should be on permanently no? but no another exciting discovery was the fact that the wires instead going to the tanks were used for outlet sockets in the loft. I called the electrician that done the work (if I can call him so), and told him the story, he said that I asked for switches for the immersion in an accessible place and he put them in but I did not ask specifically to connect the immersion so he did not do it??????
my problem
I went a got 2 DP 20A switches + 2.5 mm2 flex heat resisting cable (the immersion is 3KW each. I intend to connect the 2 immersions in separate circuits (different wires) but ending in the same MCB/RCBO 32A. The problem is that if I use this MCB/RCBO for the immersion I will loose my outlet sockets in the loft. Is there any reason, assuming that the load is ok, that I could not pull from this circuit a fused spur and connect the outlet sockets to it
Thanks
Albert