2 x 10mm2 into socket terminals.

[Deleted member 117749]

Hi All, my first post.
What range of accessories has a socket plate with large capacity terminals? I am about to run a 10mm2 SWA cable to a shed and the customer has asked if I can put a couple of sockets in weather-proof enclosures along the route. Can any socket's terminals take 2 x 10mm2 or must I do some clunky choc block lash up?

 

[Pete999]

Hi All, my first post.
What range of accessories has a socket plate with large capacity terminals? I am about to run a 10mm2 SWA cable to a shed and the customer has asked if I can put a couple of sockets in weather-proof enclosures along the route. Can any socket's terminals take 2 x 10mm2 or must I do some clunky choc block lash up?

 

[Pete999]

Wire the SWA into a garage type CU, fuse down to a 20A OCPD and connect the sockets unto that in 2.5mm2, rocket science it is not.

 

[ipf]

Hi All, my first post.
What range of accessories has a socket plate with large capacity terminals? I am about to run a 10mm2 SWA cable to a shed and the customer has asked if I can put a couple of sockets in weather-proof enclosures along the route. Can any socket's terminals take 2 x 10mm2 or must I do some clunky choc block lash up?

You're not frightening me.....but someone's up for grabs.

 

[Markyd]

Hi All, my first post.
What range of accessories has a socket plate with large capacity terminals? I am about to run a 10mm2 SWA cable to a shed and the customer has asked if I can put a couple of sockets in weather-proof enclosures along the route. Can any socket's terminals take 2 x 10mm2 or must I do some clunky choc block lash up?

Oh Dear.....Just get someone to do the work that actually know what they are doing

 

[LeeH]

No popcorn emoji?

 

[DPG]

It can't be a real question surely??

 

[westward10]

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[Pete999]

It can't be a real question surely??

Wanna Bet

 

[FatAlan]

Chaps. I believe if you read the op he’s talking about tapping into the 10mm SWA on route to the shed, not what’s happening at the shed end.

 

[Pete999]

Chaps. I believe if you read the op he’s talking about tapping into the 10mm SWA on route to the shed, not what’s happening at the shed end.

Yes just picked up on that well spotted.

 

[telectrix]

thinl it would need the SWA glanding into and out of an external double socket back box and tapped off to socket with 6.0mm tails.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I personally wouldn’t cut the s.w.a , Take it as one piece length all way down to the shed end and terminate in the consumer unit . Are you sure you require 10mm I almost always exclusively use 4mm or 6mm for shed hook ups (2.5mm if it’s just a socket and light).
Anyway back to the question... then just take some 2.5mm s.w.a feeds from the shed to feed some exterior sockets.
Much easier to terminate

 

[John clark]

Hi All, my first post.
What range of accessories has a socket plate with large capacity terminals? I am about to run a 10mm2 SWA cable to a shed and the customer has asked if I can put a couple of sockets in weather-proof enclosures along the route. Can any socket's terminals take 2 x 10mm2 or must I do some clunky choc block lash up?

??????????????????? are you hopefully not as they say part p?

 

[mhar]

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[Dustydazzler]

??????????????????? are you hopefully not as they say part p?

 

[HappyHippyDad]

Hi All, my first post.
What range of accessories has a socket plate with large capacity terminals? I am about to run a 10mm2 SWA cable to a shed and the customer has asked if I can put a couple of sockets in weather-proof enclosures along the route. Can any socket's terminals take 2 x 10mm2 or must I do some clunky choc block lash up?

I think for your first post it would have been better to avoid the term 'clunky choc block lash up'. This site tends to pick up on wording like that and then the advice given may not always be too polite.

I would question whether it needs 10mm cable. As others have said 4mm or 6mm is usually fine, although we would need to know the length of the run and the max demand of the shed to be certain of this. This would then solve your problem as you can definitely fit 2 x 4mm in a weatherproof socket (and probably 2 x 6mm although I have never had to do this).

If you do need to use 10mm then rather than a 'clunky choc box lash up' in the back box of the weatherproof socket you could have a weatherproof adaptable box next to the socket which you terminate the 10mm into (and out of) and then some 2.5mm H07RN (basically black rubber flex) going into the weatherproof socket.

Of course the OP may be using 4 core 10mm2 SWA as he needs to bond something in the shed! Doubtful but possible.

Do give us some more details Lord Buncefield and don't be put off writing again just because some take the mickey. Just read the useful replies

 

[Toneyz]

Yes just picked up on that well spotted.

I have as well Pete, had to go back and re-read the question. Thanks Alan.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

You are not going to get 2x 10mm conductors in any 13a socket terminations. If you propose to use the 10mm supply cable in the way stated you will have to run it through a separate enclosure, terminate and take a smaller cable to each socket. However your method begs the question as to whether the 10mm is intended to be a distribution circuit feeding a DB at the shed end with RCD protection there, as it would now be a final circuit requiring RCD protection at source.

 

[Pete999]

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