Afternoon gentlemen!
A brief rundown:
Submain run to outbuilding, 6mm T&E from CU to adaptable box, crimped to 2 cores of 4 core 6mm SWA terminating in 2 way rcd protected CU in outbuilding. Remaining 2 cores in SWA used as remote switching for garden lighting circuit fed from outbuilding CU (6A MCB), 10A plateswitch, 1.5mm T&E.
This switchable circuit (In the 230V side) is only required to carry (at present) 300w of lighting via a ELV transformer inside the outbuilding, which is the only device on this circuit. This transformer came supplied with flex & 13A plug, which at present I have chopped and wired into an FCU & fused at 3A.
Is this the best approach or would I be better using a 5A socket? keeping the FCU as transformer fuse protection??
And before anyone asks why I didnt just make a 16A single socket radial and plug the transformer in, its to avoid the the possible future scenario of what could happen with remote switching of a 13A socket....
One more quicky..how would you have joined the 6mm SWA cores to 1.5mm T&E. I've used connector strip , folded over the 1.5 and fed both in 'all the way' from either side of strip, ie overlapping.
Thanks for any comments.
A brief rundown:
Submain run to outbuilding, 6mm T&E from CU to adaptable box, crimped to 2 cores of 4 core 6mm SWA terminating in 2 way rcd protected CU in outbuilding. Remaining 2 cores in SWA used as remote switching for garden lighting circuit fed from outbuilding CU (6A MCB), 10A plateswitch, 1.5mm T&E.
This switchable circuit (In the 230V side) is only required to carry (at present) 300w of lighting via a ELV transformer inside the outbuilding, which is the only device on this circuit. This transformer came supplied with flex & 13A plug, which at present I have chopped and wired into an FCU & fused at 3A.
Is this the best approach or would I be better using a 5A socket? keeping the FCU as transformer fuse protection??
And before anyone asks why I didnt just make a 16A single socket radial and plug the transformer in, its to avoid the the possible future scenario of what could happen with remote switching of a 13A socket....
One more quicky..how would you have joined the 6mm SWA cores to 1.5mm T&E. I've used connector strip , folded over the 1.5 and fed both in 'all the way' from either side of strip, ie overlapping.
Thanks for any comments.