hi please help i've got a garage and shed i have electricity in garage ive put another cable in consumer unit into the garage rcb. ive ran the cable to shed into a double socket and from there to light switch to light. the socket works but when i switch on light it trips the rcb. how do i get the socket light and switch all working together. i dont know if this matters but the light switch is a 1 gang 2 way switch
electrics to my shed help??????
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Well, I'm afraid you have done it all wrong.
Someone will be along in a minute and give you some links.
Someone will be along in a minute and give you some links.
How, exactly, have you run the cable "from there to light switch to light"? I ask this because my father once wired up a light with the switch in parallel. When he put the fuse back in, he was a bit surprized to find that the light was already on.
He was even more surprized when he flipped the switch and blew the service fuse - and him a science teacher too. But, leaving that aside for now, you have a double socket and a light on the same circuit.
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You do not have the first clue how to do any of this.
For God's sake get an electrician before you kill yourself, or worse, someone else.
For God's sake get an electrician before you kill yourself, or worse, someone else.
one way or other i will find out what to do. so either tell me how to do it properly or go away. the last thing i came on here for is for you or anyone else make me feel like a tit. no wonder people don't like to ask for help. so is there anyone else out there who can just help and not take satisfaction in me getting it wrong. thanks
What you need to do is read up on how electricity works and the basics of electrical installations.
You also need to hire an electrician to do it right as you've got a lot of learning to do and a lot of equipment to get if you want to do it yourself.
You also need to hire an electrician to do it right as you've got a lot of learning to do and a lot of equipment to get if you want to do it yourself.
From the rcb in the garage a properly installed and terminated cable to another mini consumer unit in the shed, one power circuit and one lighting circuit, should suffice, for your needs, take care that polarities are observed.
Wotan
Do you really think he (or you!) has a hope of doing that safely if neither of you can tell the difference between an MCB, an RCCB, and an RCBO?
Not to mention the small issue that he doesn't know how a switch works.
What is an RCB?
Tell us what you mean, first.
Here's a clue
Tell us what you mean, first.
Here's a clue
Not a hope in hell.
If you keep on attempting to DIY you're very likely to find out the hard way that "what to do" is "get an electrician".
The way to do it properly is ...
... get an electrician.
That may be so, but the first thing you should have done was to learn how do do what you wanted to do before diving in.
But you didn't - you decided that it would be perfectly OK for you to install a new circuit even though you don't have a clue how circuits work.
There are lots.
They are called electricians.
Get one.
Wotan has it right; you need a mini consumer unit in your shed. Two MCBs will suffice - 16 amp for the socket and 6 amp for the light - though it doesn't hurt to have spares for later use. Use 2.5mm cable for the socket and 1mm for the light. There's some useful info on lighting circuits here:
//www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:lighting:single_way_lighting
You probably want the one for adding a single light to an existing circuit. Run the cable from the CU through the switch to the light. Note that you do NOT connect the neutral wire to ANY switch terminal. That's how my father blew the main fuse.
Use 2.5mm cable for the socket and 1mm for the light. There's some useful info on lighting circuits here://www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:lighting:single_way_lighting
You probably want the one for adding a single light to an existing circuit. Run the cable from the CU through the switch to the light. Note that you do NOT connect the neutral wire to ANY switch terminal. That's how my father blew the main fuse.
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