Does this comply with BS 7671?

[Stever_777]

Hi, as you can see by the photo ive got a supply coming down to a JB on outside wall then it splits 3 ways. 2 left and right go to security lighting and down is a SWA 1.5mm going to a light in a shed near by. This circuit comes straight from the cu and is on its own 6A MCB.

Can you spur off in 3 directions?

 

[johnboy6083]

Yes. It's often called spider wiring. It's how people used to wire lighting, and has it's place.

 

[Knobhead]

If you can’t a lot of houses would be condemned.
So long as the earthing arrangements and containment are up to scratch then there’s no problem.

It may not look pretty but I don’t think aesthetics come in to the realm of BS7671

 

[Engineer54]

Hi, as you can see by the photo ive got a supply coming down to a JB on outside wall then it splits 3 ways. 2 left and right go to security lighting and down is a SWA 1.5mm going to a light in a shed near by. This circuit comes straight from the cu and is on its own 6A MCB.

Can you spur off in 3 directions?

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Perhaps you can tell us why it can't go off in three directions, ...as you put it??

 

[Stever_777]

Perhaps you can tell us why it can't go off in three directions, ...as you put it??

I didn`t say it couldn`t. Still learning I am.......anyway I thought I was asking the questions

 

[Deleted member 26818]

As long as the cable from the CU to the junction box is sized to accomodate the 3 loads spured off at the junction box, there should be no problem.

 

[Knobhead]

I didn`t say it couldn`t. Still learning I am.......anyway I thought I was asking the questions

“We are the inquisition, WE ask the questions!”

PS. What are the questions?

(For you youngsters it’s a sketch from Monty Pythons Flying Circus).

 

[ipf]

Are you sure it's swa? Just wondering about the gland.

 

[Deleted member 26818]

“We are the inquisition, WE ask the questions!”

PS. What are the questions?

(For you youngsters it’s a sketch from Monty Pythons Flying Circus).

Is that the one where all those northern blokes get their kit off?

 

[Stever_777]

Are you sure it's swa? Just wondering about the gland.

Yeah, checked it. They used 3core 1.5 and haven`t earthed the armour!

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Yeah, checked it. They used 3core 1.5 and haven`t earthed the armour!

Then no, it doesn't comply with BS7671.

 

[Knobhead]

Monty Python - The Spanish Inquisition - YouTube

 

[trev]

How the hell did we get from BS7671 compliance to a fanatical devotion to the pope and no one expecting the comfy chair.
Some of the python stuff was pure genius.
And my wife and kids wonder why I like this forum so much

 

[Deleted member 26818]

Lateral thinking.

 

[ipf]

Yeah, checked it. They used 3core 1.5 and haven`t earthed the armour!

Cowboys again.

 

[ipf]

Lateral thinking.

Load of spam

 

[trev]

load of spam

noooooo not the spam song please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Knobhead]

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[trev]

Awwww Tony man... I'll have that song in my head for bloody days now

 

[Richard Burns]

Just as a point of interest on this one, it looks like the satellite cables are running parallel to the power, would / could this cause interference problems with the magnetic field from the power impinging on the sat signal or would the earth shielding on the sat cable prevent this?