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Nick Buckland
Hey, so here's the situation, im doing a domestic install for an existing detached garage consisting of a radial power circuit and 2 lighting curcuits run from a mini 4 way "satelite" board (CU). It's raised 2 interesting questions.
1. is it acceptable to put the CU at high level i.e 6ft+ or do i have to keep it more accessible i.e below 1200mm like the regs say you should for a CU. if its on the wall at low level it's going to get bashed about, so up in a corner seems the only sensible location, but do the regs agree? my arguement is that as it is a secondary consumer unit, and protected by its own breaker in the house it is no longer considered a "consumer unit" and is mearly treated like a fused connection.
2. I'm running single cables around conduit for a lighting circuit with my switch being at the far end from my CU and the lights between the 2. Obviously i have to run my live to the switch and then a switched live back to the light fittings, but do i have to do the same with my neutral and earth cables can i not just run them in and out of the light fittings straight from the board? do i even need to take the neutral to the switch at all?
i cant see any problems with this other then the fact that my L, N and E runs would be different lengths and thus the potentual between them would be different.
1. is it acceptable to put the CU at high level i.e 6ft+ or do i have to keep it more accessible i.e below 1200mm like the regs say you should for a CU. if its on the wall at low level it's going to get bashed about, so up in a corner seems the only sensible location, but do the regs agree? my arguement is that as it is a secondary consumer unit, and protected by its own breaker in the house it is no longer considered a "consumer unit" and is mearly treated like a fused connection.
2. I'm running single cables around conduit for a lighting circuit with my switch being at the far end from my CU and the lights between the 2. Obviously i have to run my live to the switch and then a switched live back to the light fittings, but do i have to do the same with my neutral and earth cables can i not just run them in and out of the light fittings straight from the board? do i even need to take the neutral to the switch at all?
i cant see any problems with this other then the fact that my L, N and E runs would be different lengths and thus the potentual between them would be different.