New Socket

[Thistle]

Is it true that you can only connect a new spur to an existing socket if there are only two cables connected to it?
If this is the case, then basically all that would be left to do is run the spur to the new socket?

 

[breezer]

The "two cables" as you put it are the ring, you can spur off the ring, or any socket connected to the ring. you would be better of extending the ring.

the cable must be 2.5 twin and earth

 

[paulh53]

The Two Cables In The Socket Could Be Half Way Along a Radial Circuit, If This Is The Case Then You Cannot "Spur" Off The Socket

 

[supersparks]

yes you can

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The Two Cables In The Socket Could Be Half Way Along a Radial Circuit, If This Is The Case Then You Cannot "Spur" Off The Socket

oF cOURSE yOU cAN - wHY oN eARTH dO yOU tHINK tHAT?

 

[paulh53]

Bad Practice, You Will Be Splitting a "Radial Circuit" Into Two "Radial Circuits, And If Additional Sockets Where Added To This "Split Radial Circuit" At a Later Day, Then You Would Have a Circuit That Would Resemble a "Copper Wire Tree"
In Electrical Installations, Radials Are Radials, Rings Are Rings, Spurs Are Spurs, But "Copper Wire Trees Belong In "Copper Wire Forests"

 

[supersparks]

yes but you said cannot, and also if there is only one cable in a box then it is blatently 99% a spur, also, exactly the same thing could occour on a ring....

 

[paulh53]

One Cable In The Socket Could Also Be The End Of a Radial Circuit

 

[il78]

As long as the radial circuit is protected at the board with a 16/20A breaker/fuse....no problems.......granted it aint a conventional way of wiring but most install rings any-hoos..