Fused socket

[danmun]

Hi there.

I am not electrically or DIY minded, but I have been learning a few things recently.

What I need to know is this:

I used to have a water tank with electic pump in the airing cupboard, but we put a new bolier etc in at the beginning of the year, leaving the cupboard vacant. I want to put a Computer in there, to hide it away, and there is a panel on the wall, which looks to me to be a fuse panel.

Can I take this plate off and put a normal plug socket panel in it's place?

Thanks peeps

 

[plugwash]

probablly not as it is probablly wired to some part of the old cetral heating system not directly to the mains.

if you had an immersion heater as backup though you can probablly use the supply that was used for that.

 

[JohnD]

If it formerly fed a shower pump, it is probably an FCU with a 3A fuse in it, in which case, yes. It most likely comes off the upstairs socket circuit.

typical FCU

If you mean a circulating pump for the central heating, then, no.

typical flex outlet (has hole in middle for flex)

edited: agree with plugwash about the immersion heater outlet. This ought to have been supplied from a 15A fuse or 16A MCB in the Consumer unit (fuesbox) which you will have to relabel.

 

[danmun]

John D

Yes, it is one of those, an FCU with a 3 Amp fuse in it, it fed the pump directly. In that case, can I just replace it with a socket assuming this is on the normal mains supply?

Cheers
Dan

Actually scrub that - it fed the Circulating pump, not the shower pump. Does that mean I can't swap it over?

 

[JohnD]

the central heating circulating pump would have been fed off your old boiler, switched on and off by a thermostat, so no good for a socket.

 

[danmun]

Ok, thanks John D - Much appreciated comments

 

[ColJack]

that's not an FCU JohnD.. that's a SFCU..

FCU's have no switch..

it's all in the terminology..

DSO = Double socket outlet
DSSO = Double switched socket outlet..
etc etc..

 

[JohnD]