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skamuk
In need of a little advice.
My uncle wants some decking lights and a single socket fitted in the shed at the end of the garden.
The CU in the house is old-school, and there are no RCD's present. I wouldn't know where (if) I could obtain one from this era.. so..
I obviously need to RCD protect everything in the garden. Ideally I want to spur off a ring socket in conservatory - drill through the back of the socket to the outside wall, and fit an RCD outside, as I don't want to damage the decorating inside, otherwise I would just chase one in next to the socket inside.
Problem with this is the price of weatherproof RCD's is extortion!
Can I put the RCD in the shed before the socket and lights, but after the 20m SWA run, or does that defeat the object? The cable is 2.5 SWA and is going to be clipped to fence.
Can't seem to find anything on this in the regs.
My uncle wants some decking lights and a single socket fitted in the shed at the end of the garden.
The CU in the house is old-school, and there are no RCD's present. I wouldn't know where (if) I could obtain one from this era.. so..
I obviously need to RCD protect everything in the garden. Ideally I want to spur off a ring socket in conservatory - drill through the back of the socket to the outside wall, and fit an RCD outside, as I don't want to damage the decorating inside, otherwise I would just chase one in next to the socket inside.
Problem with this is the price of weatherproof RCD's is extortion!
Can I put the RCD in the shed before the socket and lights, but after the 20m SWA run, or does that defeat the object? The cable is 2.5 SWA and is going to be clipped to fence.
Can't seem to find anything on this in the regs.