Installation Of Pop Up Kitchen Socket

[Mark Elvin]

I have a "pop up" kitchen socket to go in the new kitchen like this - http://www.schulte.com/index.php

To power it I understand I can pop a fused spur of the ring main in, but I am limited to a 13A current draw onm the fused spur, so am I right in saying I can just pop a junction box in and take a spur (unfused) from the ring?

And yes, I know it's notifiable.

 

[bernardgreen]

When I looked at one of these for our kitchen it was going to be connected to the ring by a double pole FCU so that it could be fully isolated in case of damage or water ingress to the pop up. Also some concerns about the rating of the flexible cable feeding the sockets.

In the end we did not use a pop up.

 

[Mark Elvin]

When I looked at one of these for our kitchen it was going to be connected to the ring by a double pole FCU so that it could be fully isolated in case of damage or water ingress to the pop up. Also some concerns about the rating of the flexible cable feeding the sockets.

That was my thinking behind using a FCU.

But then I started thinking that you could take a socket on a spur from a ring, so there is little difference (except the spillage issues of course).

From waht I can make out the cable is rated to 20A.

 

[chapeau]

You can only connect a double socket using an unfused spur, 2.5mm cable clipped direct will not handle three sockets all drawing 13amps.

 

[Mark Elvin]

You can only connect a double socket using an unfused spur, 2.5mm cable clipped direct will not handle three sockets all drawing 13amps.

Thanks, fused it is then. It's only having a 5amp toaster occasionally pugged into it.

13A fused fitted, I'll never get near the 20A rating of the device.

 

[hairyben]

Yeah fused spur, you'd have to be sustaining about 20 amps to pop it anyway (the 13amp fuse). Know of an electric floor drawing a measured 15.6 amps on one, has worked for years...

 

[ban-all-sheds]

am I right in saying I can just pop a junction box in and take a spur (unfused) from the ring?

No.


//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=75416#75416

http://web.archive.org/web/20080118063245/www.kevinboone.com/PF_electricity.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20071013043715/www.kevinboone.com/PF_domesticinstallations.html

 

[Mark Elvin]

am I right in saying I can just pop a junction box in and take a spur (unfused) from the ring?

No.


//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=75416#75416

http://web.archive.org/web/20080118063245/www.kevinboone.com/PF_electricity.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20071013043715/www.kevinboone.com/PF_domesticinstallations.html

Thanks.

Loads of usefull stuff there, will keep me busy for hours.