Spur - socket and Fused Spur from Ring?

[stillp]

No, that's a plug. Only the top of it is a plug top.

 

[EFLImpudence]

 

[JohnW2]

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Well, that one is even sillier - although headed 'plug top', the illustration is clearly of a 'plug bottom'

Kind Regards, John

 

[PBC_1966]

Not in terms of the 'informative guidance' of Appendix 15 of the regs - but in terms of electricity and common sense, a single socket and an FCU (with a 5A fuse, as proposed by the OP) would not even be ' as bad' as a double socket (as 'allowed' by that guidance).

But you cannot have a socket and a fused connection unit on one spur.

Please tell us which regulation forbids it.

So is something else in the current edition which has been removed from the prescriptive "thou shalt"/"thou shalt not" category and relegated to an "informative guidance" appendix?

 

[eveares]

I was thinking of 4.00mm, however will face issued with 2x 2.5mm and 1x 4mm cables in the back of a socket.

Could you not just extended the ring (RFC) with 2.5mm², thus keeping the ring intact and preventing the issue of having a spur.

 

[EFLImpudence]

What is the issue with having a spur?

 

[JohnW2]

So is something else in the current edition which has been removed from the prescriptive "thou shalt"/"thou shalt not" category and relegated to an "informative guidance" appendix?

As I've told you before, there is now hardly any proscriptive details about ring finals in the regs themselves - basically just minimum cable CSA and CCC and OPD size - whatever else is said about ring finals (and, indeed, many corresponding things about radial circuits) is in the 'informative guidance' of Appendix 15. ... so, if all those things were once in the regs proper then, yes, they have been 'relegated'.

Kind Regards, John

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Double socket with probably a dryer plugged into it. Un-switched spur to feed 2x lights, 60w bulb and 400w floodlight.

Yes, but what's that in terms of design current?

And what will be the installation method?


Have you applied for permission for the floodlight yet, BTW? No point going too far down the road of providing for it if you won't be allowed it.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Your point is?

 

[JohnW2]

Your point is?

I presume his point was that the product (only the bottom of which was shown in the piccie) was described as a "plug top".

Kind Regards, John

 

[winston1]

A spur on a ring can have one double socket or one FCU but NOT both.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I presume his point was that the product (only the bottom of which was shown in the piccie) was described as a "plug top".

And my point is that just because one can produce photographs where people claim something is a certain thing that does not mean that it is.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

A spur on a ring can have one double socket or one FCU but NOT both.

Why do you say that?

 

[winston1]

A spur on a ring can have one double socket or one FCU but NOT both.

Why do you say that?

Because it well known to be in the regs. Don't ask me where, I don't have a copy.

 

[EFLImpudence]

I presume his point was that the product (only the bottom of which was shown in the piccie) was described as a "plug top".

And my point is that just because one can produce photographs where people claim something is a certain thing that does not mean that it is.

That was my point, too.