Am2 socket circuit help!!

[Adam95ye]

Hi. I've got a resit for the Am2 in a month as I failed the socket circuit. The problem is, I'm not sure how ! I've drawn a quick diagram of the wiring they give you and how I would wire it.
The top drawing is the diagram they give you..

 

[Dillb]

What feedback have you been given by your tutor into where you failed?

 

[Deleted member 26818]

RFC
1) DB to 11,
2) 11 to 13,
3) 13 to 14,
4) 14 to 12,
5) 12 to DB.

 

[Octopus]

Are we assuming this has to be a ring? With only 4 sockets, I would go with a radial .....

 

[ipf]

Are we assuming this has to be a ring? With only 4 sockets, I would go with a radial .....

That's put a cat among the pigeons...…

 

[Adam95ye]

Are we assuming this has to be a ring? With only 4 sockets, I would go with a radial .....

11 12 and 13 is a ring main. 14 is a spur

 

[Bellendian]

The clue must be in the breaker they give you....if its a 32 then ring it, 20 or 16 then radial

 

[Adam95ye]

What feedback have you been given by your tutor into where you failed?

There is no feedback given. Just what you passed or failed

 

[casperLennon]

This is it

 

[Bellendian]

You seem to have changed the layout between what you were given, and what you wired? Might be as simple as taking spur from the wrong point, even if wiring was electrically sound?

 

[casperLennon]

According to -----------

 

[Richard Burns]

If you wired the circuit differently from the diagram they had provided for you, then this would indicate that you could not follow a specified wiring diagram and would cause you to fail.
No 12 being different seems to indicate a fused connection unit so I assume they wanted the circuit wired in accordance with the below diagram however the diagram posted above seems to indicate a non fused spur and just an FCU as part of the ring, but not matching either of your diagrams.

 

[Adam95ye]

This is it

View attachment 43632

Thanks. But why would there need to be a fused switch if the spur is coming off a socket?? Plus the diagram, that was provide, shows the spurred socket below the fused unit

 

[Octopus]

11 12 and 13 is a ring main. 14 is a spur

Useful information you should have included in the op .... And the type of circuit...

 

[Deleted member 26818]

This is it

View attachment 43632

The description doesn’t match the diagram.

 

[gazdkw82]

Is that what they actually give you?

Was the writing below (DB-11 etc) part of what they gave you?

To me it looks like a small ting and a spur?

 

[Wilko]

Hi Adam, this description from a student begins with "read the instructions because they may change" but here it is :

 

[gazdkw82]

Good info wilko.

Pretty simple given that info

 

[Strima]

One of the tested areas, as pointed out earlier in this thread, is following the design criteria. If you don’t follow it you fail.

 

[gazdkw82]

So the SFCU is the spur, protecting a 2gang socket?