16 amp socket help please

[Bradley6969]

Hi, I'm at a job where there is 4x16 amp sockets protected by 4x16 amp rcbos in a bollard, the customer now wants 6 amp rcbos cause he wants to limit what people are using can you do this? I suppose it will just trip if people use more than 6 amps

 

[Octopus]

Yes.

You have answered your own question.

Do job, on certificate for circuit breaker change, note potential tripping caused by overload, submit with invoice ....

 

[Pete999]

Hi, I'm at a job where there is 4x16 amp sockets protected by 4x16 amp rcbos in a bollard, the customer now wants 6 amp rcbos cause he wants to limit what people are using can you do this? I suppose it will just trip if people use more than 6 amps

What a load of bollards

 

[Richard Burns]

Yes you can do this and yes the circuit breaker will trip if overloaded. It will be a safe circuit within the design parameters of the wiring regulations.
Is this a practical approach, no, because it is effectively designing the circuit to fail and causing a circuit breaker to trip regularly is not ideal as they will have a much shorter lifetime and so need replacement.
Informative signage would help but it is still not ideal from a practical perspective.

Murdoch has the better, shorter answer, cover yourself.

 

[Bradley6969]

These are the bollards, and thanks guys much appreciated

 

[Andy78]

What is being used that the owner wants to limit the use of ?

 

[Octopus]

What is being used that the owner wants to limit the use of ?

electricity?

 

[TeeCee]

Okay, stupid question time.

Is this installation designed to supply something like a market stall? The reason I ask is because I see C type RCBOs have been fitted.

 

[Andy78]

electricity?

Yeah ok I should have said what types and sizes of appliances ...

You'd think after all my time on here and years of wading through City and Guild's ambiguous syntax, I would have learned to construct a concise and specifically worded sentence wouldn't you ?

 

[Pete999]

These are the bollards, and thanks guys much appreciated

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Blimey that pic kicks my attempt at humor into touch, I honestly thought you had spelt boards as bollards, oh well never mind eh.

 

[Octopus]

Yeah ok I should have said what types and sizes of appliances ...

You'd think after all my time on here and years of wading through City and Guild's ambiguous syntax, I would have learned to construct a concise and specifically worded sentence wouldn't you ?

More the opposite .... its wading through the antiquities of BS 7671 that I hate

 

[TeeCee]

I thought you humour was appropriate. Never mind the Bollards...

 

[buzzlightyear]

looking at the back ground in that picture is a caravan site !

 

[Bradley6969]

Okay, stupid question time.

Is this installation designed to supply something like a market stall? The reason I ask is because I see C type RCBOs have been fitted.

No just general power to a boar yard

 

[Bradley6969]

N

looking at the back ground in that picture is a caravan site !

No but we do a lot of work within caravan sites

 

[TeeCee]

Fair enough, I just saw decking. I shall have a read of Section 721, then...

 

[Bradley6969]

Were all friends on here

Blimey that pic kicks my attempt at humor into touch, I honestly thought you had spelt boards as bollards, oh well never mind eh.

 

[Bradley6969]

Fair enough, I just saw decking. I shall have a read of Section 721, then...

Easy mistake lol

 

[TeeCee]

Aha! My first thought was a marina. Cheers for the clarification.

 

[telectrix]

No just general power to a boar yard

wild boar?