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Consumer unit breakers
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But the checks needed when installing a CU are more than visual, so as long as the installation is done by someone who has the skills and the equipment to do proper testing, anything which is wrong can be found and put right.
With 2 conductors in each? And in one case conductors of different colours?
How do you know they are?
What are the consequences if they are not?
Why do you feel unable to ask your electrician?
Do you know how to do, and have the equipment needed to do, all of the testing required?
Do you plan to get the Building Regulations approval needed when creating new circuits?
What exactly has the electrician agreed that you can do, and what "signing off" he he going to do?
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I am prepared to advise you, and I have given you advice, as has securespark.
The problem seems to be not that our advice is bad, but that it does not accord with the sort of advice you had decided you should get before you posted here.
But if you want even more advice:
The problem seems to be not that our advice is bad, but that it does not accord with the sort of advice you had decided you should get before you posted here.
But if you want even more advice:
- //www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:mcbtocable
- http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Book/4.3.1.htm
- http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Book/4.3.11.htm
- http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Book/5.3.1.htm
- http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Book/6.1.1.htm
- http://web.archive.org/web/20070327014113/http://www.kevinboone.com/cableselection_web.pdf
- http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Technical/Charts/VoltageDrop.html
The references above which are in italics are out of date. The principles are still valid, and you can absolutely learn valid things from them, but you will need to refer to the latest edition of the Wiring Regulations to get the correct data.
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Might be.
Might not be.
Nobody here can say, as we are not the designers.
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Dave
The questions you are asking make it very clear that you do not have the basic knowledge required to plan and carry out the work you are intending to carry out.
The advice you have been given is not the advice that you want to hear but it is advice you NEED to hear.
There is a lot more to installing a consumer unit than you think and getting it wrong can create serious risks of fire or other potentially fatal accidents.
The questions you are asking make it very clear that you do not have the basic knowledge required to plan and carry out the work you are intending to carry out.
The advice you have been given is not the advice that you want to hear but it is advice you NEED to hear.
There is a lot more to installing a consumer unit than you think and getting it wrong can create serious risks of fire or other potentially fatal accidents.
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The problem is that what is there might be wrong. You can't just copy what's there because it is going to become your responsibility.
And if you thought you were going to swap to a new one using the same sized breakers, why did you ask
What rating do I need for
Sockets
Upstairs lights
Downstairs lights
Garage
Cooker
Hob
?
And if you thought you were going to swap to a new one using the same sized breakers, why did you ask
What rating do I need for
Sockets
Upstairs lights
Downstairs lights
Garage
Cooker
Hob
?
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Glad you have finally realised that.
See about half-way down here.
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