How many accessories can accommodate 2 x 6mm cables?
What amp circuit required for 2 ovens and a hob
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How many accessories can accommodate 2 x 6mm cables?
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Well, many/most BS1363 accessories (e.g MK sockets and FCUs) claim to have a terminal capacity of 2 x 6mm².
However, more to the point, if 6mm² cable is being used for good reason, the accessories to which it is likely top be connected (e.g. 45/50A switches, cooker connection units and 'connection plates etc.) will usually have a claimed capacity of at least 3 x 6mm².
Here you go again Mr Splitting Hairs
I said not many accessories will accept 2 x 6 mm cables
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I've never knowingly used one.
Exactly what hairs do you believe have been split?
You didn't actually. You asked the question (which may have been intended as rhetorical) ....
...and I answered that question, indicating that many of the accessories we use every day (probably most accessories we use every day, other than those on lighting circuits) claim to have a terminal capacity of 2 x 6mm² or greater.
How big was the load on this 32A circuit. Per BS7671, 2.5mm² flex has a maximum CCC of 25A.
Kind Regards,John
My apologies, I edited too much off.
I have never had a problem fitting 2x6mm² into any 13A or 15A socket.
I did measure But I don't recall, however it was protected by a 32A MCB at that time (Not that cable though) so theoretically only 25ish% overload possible
Fair enough. Strictly speaking,of course, 2,5mm² flex is not adequately protected by a 32A MCB.
I certainly wouldn't expect a "25ish%" overload to do harm to a cable very quickly, but if the overload persisted for a long time, that might be a different matter.
Also, don't forget that a 32A MCB does not impose a 32A 'ceiling'. A 32A MCB will allow about 46A to flow for about an hour (and highre currents than that for shorter periods) - and that would represent something like an 85% overload for 2.5mm² flex.
Kind Regards, John
Well I must plead guilty.True. What about US Amps ?
I automatically did not include US Amps because they, the US of A, beggar up units.
6 pints to a gallon. 1 thousand x 1 million = 1 billion instad of the proper 1 million times 1 million = 1 billion, 1024 bytes to a kilobyte and a plethora of other things, cant spell reet or pronounce words reet or even get the date reet. So yes I discounted them.
So sorry for my omission there folks. I will strive to do better.
I would estimate that 37 US Amps to be in the region of 27.75 normal amps within a few electrons or so but I can not claim that conclusively though.
It would not surprise me if it were them that started to call a cell a battery, always prone te exagerations they are.
Although, in the interest of fair play, I can not envisage they bear any responsibillity of some folk calling "1 New Penny" 1 New pence in the UK a few years back.
I think that that blunder might have been a totally British one.
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hardly any ...............
That would be the "centipound"
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