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Hi All,
Appreciate some advice on an outdoor socket and lighting circuit please.
I currently have an outdoor socket on my house, that i believe to be a spur from a 32A ring. I would like to extend this out to decking for some lights and sockets, and onward to a shed for a couple of lights and 3 sockets.
I believe i can - Changed the socket to a fused spur (13A?) and from this run 4mm SWA to my decking and from here it will onward run to the shed. The socket to decking run is 17m, as is the decking to shed run. So my thoughts were this:
13A FSU in place of outdoor socket
4mm SWA to decking, terminated in an IP66 enclosure.
4mm SWA from this enclosure onto the shed, terminated directly into a 2g socket.
2.5mm run onward from this socket to another 2g socket, and one further on from this.
5A FSU hanging off the first 2G socket in this location, to provide a lighting circuit.
Switch and light unit wired in 1.5mm from this 5A FSU
Does this work?
Back on the decking. Do i need to connect my sockets here in radial, or can these spur off the 4mm SWA junction box?
So from junction box, go 4mm SWA to a 2G socket
From this socket 4mm SWA to another 2G socket
From this final 2G socket, go 4mm SWA to a Knightsbridge remote switch unit (5 circuits all fused individually).
How does this sound? I think i am fairly confident about the bit to the shed, but don't know about the decking bits and how i would wire them into the circuit.
Any advice very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
Appreciate some advice on an outdoor socket and lighting circuit please.
I currently have an outdoor socket on my house, that i believe to be a spur from a 32A ring. I would like to extend this out to decking for some lights and sockets, and onward to a shed for a couple of lights and 3 sockets.
I believe i can - Changed the socket to a fused spur (13A?) and from this run 4mm SWA to my decking and from here it will onward run to the shed. The socket to decking run is 17m, as is the decking to shed run. So my thoughts were this:
13A FSU in place of outdoor socket
4mm SWA to decking, terminated in an IP66 enclosure.
4mm SWA from this enclosure onto the shed, terminated directly into a 2g socket.
2.5mm run onward from this socket to another 2g socket, and one further on from this.
5A FSU hanging off the first 2G socket in this location, to provide a lighting circuit.
Switch and light unit wired in 1.5mm from this 5A FSU
Does this work?
Back on the decking. Do i need to connect my sockets here in radial, or can these spur off the 4mm SWA junction box?
So from junction box, go 4mm SWA to a 2G socket
From this socket 4mm SWA to another 2G socket
From this final 2G socket, go 4mm SWA to a Knightsbridge remote switch unit (5 circuits all fused individually).
How does this sound? I think i am fairly confident about the bit to the shed, but don't know about the decking bits and how i would wire them into the circuit.
Any advice very gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
Mike
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