Electric to log cabin

[diycooper]

I am looking at getting electric put in log cabin, In my loft I have a 10mm T & E cable isolated which runs to the fuse board on a 40amp fuse. I was thinking of connecting 2.5mm SWA cable to the T & E in the loft then running it down my house and burying underground to the shed. In the shed connect it to a garage consumer unit with 2 fuses. 1 32 amp fuse for a ring sockets and 1 6amp for a light. What my question is 2.5mm SWA cable sufficient ?

I know 4mm would be better but taken diversity into account is the light going to make a massive difference ?



Thanks

This was my question which I now know that 4 mm is what I need and that is fine on a 32mcb radial. So I do not know why you are getting on at me for learning. Is that not why people come here.

 

[diycooper]

I can't believe that someone who over the course of nearly 6 years has made 533 posts here, and read hundreds too, still doesn't understand how to use [quote] [/quote] properly.

The truth is you just can't be bothered, can you.

I wrote this very early on.

Why you say 20 amps was thinking 32 amp for main fuse ?

I gathered it was 20 amp for a 2.5 radial and 32 amp for a 2.5 ring circuit.

Cable distance is 18 meters tops.

Supply is 240v.

Thanks for reply

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You can't even be rsed to remove that last line that the site inserts when you copy and paste a post, can you. - Just like you could not be bothered spell checking or was you getting upset and writing very fast. You seem to be good at that, getting upset that is !

Anyway...

In my loft I have a 10mm T & E cable isolated which runs to the fuse board on a 40amp fuse. I was thinking of connecting 2.5mm SWA cable to the T & E

If the fuse on that 10mm is 40amp then you can not connect 2.5mm cable to it.
The fuse would have to be reduced to 20 amp at the most.

Why you say 20 amps was thinking 32 amp for main fuse ?

First of all, he explained why he said 20A, it's because you'd said that you were going to connect a 2.5mm² cable to the 10mm² cable which is on a 40A breaker.

Secondly, you had not said that you were thinking of changing that 40A breaker to a 32A one. But if you had, that would also have been wrong.

I gathered it was 20 amp for a 2.5 radial and 32 amp for a 2.5 ring circuit.

It is, but you had not been talking about a ring, you had been talking about the radial to the shed, and as you had been talking about a 2.5mm² radial that is why you were told that it had to be on a 20A fuse.

Cable distance is 18 meters tops.

And there you went again, talking about the radial to the shed.

Nobody has told you that 32A is wrong for a 2.5mm² ring final. Nobody.

Which is basically saying I understand 32 amp is for a ring and 20 amp is for a radial either way I understood it.

You gave no evidence of having understood it, and lots of evidence that you didn't get what people were telling you.

Even now the fact that you are still banging on about having been told that 32A for a 2.5mm² ring is wrong shows that you don't understand what you are writing or what you are reading.

Again I said I gathered it was 20 amp for a 2.5 radial and 32 amp for a 2.5 ring circuit. I had not even got onto designing the circuit at this stage

Wrong - you had got onto designing it, and your first design was to put a 2.5mm² cable on a 40A breaker.

either or I have confirmed what I knew with a spark and he has confirmed it to be correct .

I suggest you accept the fact that you really do not have a good enough understanding of all of this to be DIYing, and let that electrician do it all for you.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

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So all you did was to quote a post I made.

Your point is?

Surely you don't think that it shows that you do know how to use [quote] [/quote] tags?

 

[JohnW2]

Surely you don't think that it shows that you do know how to use [quote] [/quote] tags?

Well, it did work

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

So I do not know why you are getting on at me for learning.

I'm not.

I was trying to get you to see that your repeated assertion that somebody had told you that a 32A breaker for a 2.5mm² ring final was wrong was incorrect.

And that does matter, because the fact that you thought you'd been told that when you clearly had not shows that you don't understand what people are telling you.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Well, it did work

Simply clicking

and then

does not show that you know how to use [quote] [/quote] properly, given the context established here:

Sorry for double post do not know how to do one with the quotes.

If you mean, quote two different posts in one reply, then you have to hit reply to one post, copy the text, then go back and hit reply to the other post before pasting the first lot of quoted text in before or after the second lot. It's help if you use the "open in new tab" function of the browser so you can :

Click Quote to post 1 while holding the modifier for "in new tab" (or right click and select from the menu), copy all the text in the box, close the tab.
Click reply to post 2.
Paste in the copied text before or after what's already there according to context.
Trim all the quoted text - should be enough to show context.

 

[JohnW2]

Well, it did work

Simply clicking

and then

does not show that you know how to use [quote] [/quote] properly, given the context established here: ...

Don't smilies have any meaning any more?!

Kind Regards, John.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Well they do, but I'm not sure how they helped...

Probably not in the best frame of mind to appreciate them, as that twerp p***es me off intensely with his sheer b****y laziness and refusal to use the forum properly.

It is simply not credible that anybody who is allowed unsupervised access to the internet does not have the mental capacity to grasp how quote brackets work - he just can't be bothered.

 

[JohnW2]

Probably not in the best frame of mind to appreciate them, as that twerp p***es me off intensely with his sheer b****y laziness and refusal to use the forum properly. It is simply not credible that anybody who is allowed unsupervised access to the internet does not have the mental capacity to grasp how quote brackets work - he just can't be bothered.

I agree that it's a little irritating, but so are so many things (and people!) in this world. I would have thought that, like me, you probably have far more important things to worry about.

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I agree that it's a little irritating

It's insulting.

It's him saying "I can't be bothered to do things properly so all of you will just have to do more work to compensate for that".

 

[diycooper]

Well they do, but I'm not sure how they helped...

Probably not in the best frame of mind to appreciate them, as that twerp p***es me off intensely with his sheer b****y laziness and refusal to use the forum properly.

It is simply not credible that anybody who is allowed unsupervised access to the internet does not have the mental capacity to grasp how quote brackets work - he just can't be bothered.

To be fair , I do not listen to anyone who uses the work twerp ha ha ha. You do not know me to judge me or what I am capable of doing. You have just got upset very easy for nothing. Go do something better with your time then instead of getting winded up over me. Get a bird or something but Jesus why get so upset. You got OCD and have to prove your point, let it go soft ****e.

 

[diycooper]

For the record, I have got a speak doing the wiring on Friday, he is using 6mm armoured, changing fuse in MCB, wiring me in 5 sockets and a light supply all the material and labour for £280 and I get a certificate.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

You do not know me to judge me or what I am capable of doing.

You can only be judged on the basis of how you present here, and on that basis you are incapable of fairly basic reading and writing and you don't give a toss about doing a good job.

But I'm glad you've seem sense and have engaged an electrician.