Shed supply

[RWJ]

What about silver coloured plastic conduit lololololol You know you can get it in any RAL colour............................ Sorry............... Normal service will resume!

 

[Silly Sausage]

Yes but it's eye wateringly expensive though Archy and I'm not so sure if they're putting it in conduit just yet

I bet it is, but when it becomes cost effective, that'll be the death knell for steel conduit.
No more Hilmores, just lads armed with hair dryers!

 

[overskilled]

See this is why I don't normally post after visiting the fang farrier...trauma makes me talk nonsense (both mental and financial trauma.....the wallet is still in shock. I'm in the wrong business....get it wrong as a dentist...charge twice....must be the only career where you can get things wrong and still bill the client.....)
Revised plan - go along the lines of what dave suggested - shed is only staying temporarily till I can get the garage erected (10 or 12 feet x 20 feet) and its getting a 40amp supply in 6mm2 3 Core SWA (recovered from the catenary supply I had at the last house, still in perfect nick so getting reused) buried under the gravelled drying area.

 

[LeckyBill]

What about silver coloured plastic conduit lololololol You know you can get it in any RAL colour............................ Sorry............... Normal service will resume!

only used white and black

 

[davethsparky]

It's not just the fact that the armour is good enough, there's the fact that fault current is unlikely to flow through the external cpc anyway due to the inductive coupling with the armour.

 

[micknew]

There's a lot of that ignorance still about Mick.

Especially amongst foreign untrained sparks.

 

[RWJ]

I bet it is, but when it becomes cost effective, that'll be the death knell for steel conduit.
No more Hilmores, just lads armed with hair dryers!

I did some conduit today................ Real conduit (20mm Steel)... looks the dogs.. It had a 90 bend and then I had to put a dog leg in because the bloody IT guy stuck is poxy T2 right in the way!

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only used white and black

Good buddy....... you stick with that... At least you won't get a belt off it!

 

[micknew]

It's not just the fact that the armour is good enough, there's the fact that fault current is unlikely to flow through the external cpc anyway due to the inductive coupling with the armour.

If its made off by a PROPERLY trained sparks it will comply.

 

[Silly Sausage]

I did some conduit today................ Real conduit (20mm Steel)... looks the dogs.. It had a 90 bend and then I had to put a dog leg in because the bloody IT guy stuck is poxy T2 right in the way!

Craftsman!

 

[RWJ]

Craftsman!

I should have taken a picture!

 

[44ALLAN]

There was a period (and probably now) when firms ran an earth wire alongside the swa because they were ignorant and did not know that 99.9 + per cent of the time the armour complied.

Earth wire alongside is waste of time and effort.................dedicated earth core inside swa every time.
Armour can then be back-up earth if required when bonded correctly......... they compliment each other /earth and bond all at the same time........canny Zs reading too .

 

[davethsparky]

So you install 5core for tp sub mains do you?

 

[44ALLAN]

So you install 5core for tp sub mains do you?

Yup every time I'm afraid........................

edit.

I'm not saying using the armour is wrong btw.
Each to their own it's just the way I do it

 

[44ALLAN]

3 phase motor gets a 4 core too....................so i can put the earth core onto the nice internal earth connection in the motor terminal box that the manufacturers provide

 

[davethsparky]

How much more does it cost to do that? I'd have thought there's going to be a big price difference for adding an extra core, especially when 5core isn't all that commonly used.

Motors is different because you only just flexible cables for the final connection so there isn't a suitable armour.

 

[44ALLAN]

Motors is different because you only just flexible cables for the final connection so there isn't a suitable armour.

Don't know why you would think that mate?
I've taken armoured cable direct to the motor terminal box thousands of times!

 

[telectrix]

@ OP. go to jail. do not pass go. do not collect £200. buy some bloody 6mm 3 core SWA. you say you are going to have a garage at a later date. so install to accommodate the additional load you will require then. feed from a non-RCD way in the house CU then install a garage CU in the shed.

 

[44ALLAN]

SWA as a CPC

Heres a great article for those that haven't seen it............enjoy

 

[7029 dave]

Why wouldn't you trust it? There's nothing wrong in using the armour as long as it's been correctly sized and the chances of it coming out of a gland are nil as long as it's been done correctly.
What are your thoughts on conduit or trunking as a cpc?

When I was working on big projects, hospitals schools factorys, we had to pull in cpc's, it was spec on conduit work and trucking.

 

[robsparky1975]

how the frack do you use plastic conduit as cpc?!

Paint it green n yellow lol