Lollipop circuit or not

[varilite]

Doing a kitchen revamp but not happy nice consumer unit an old GE but no rcd only main switch. There is only one ring circuit as is a flat but I know I have to put what I have done on an rcd I can either lollipop it to an rcd enclosure or install a mini consumer unit with rcd and mcb what is best? Oh yeah customer does not want to pay for a whole new cu

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Rcbo?.........

 

[varilite]

do you know what I never even thought of that thanks a lot

 

[MDJ]

do you know what I never even thought of that thanks a lot

Don,t doubt it LOL

 

[ipf]

RCBO.....Rediscovered cells brought out ?

 

[somersetsparks]

GE even do those normal MCB sized RCBO's, I assume they had to make them to fit their god awful consumer unit design with the neutral bars behind the MCBs.

 

[chopper76]

What's lollipopping?

 

[varilite]

It's when you use a big cable to feed say an rcd then put the two 2.5's to the load side the analogy is the big cable ( probably 6mm) is the lollipop handle and the ring circuit is the lollipop

 

[chopper76]

Oh thanks, never heard that expression

 

[Toonlad]

To hybrid or not to hybrid, that is the question, was this not a recent talking point with the Niceic recently in a newsletter, i vaguely remember reading about one.

@ chopper the classic is taking a cooker circuit, from the switch isolator or the outlet plate, and making a ring main off it. So as varilite has explained this takes the shape of a lollipop.

 

[telectrix]

i'd rather have a magnum.

 

[guest119]

i'd rather have a magnum.

D ya feel lucky, punk.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Doing a kitchen revamp but not happy nice consumer unit an old GE but no rcd only main switch. There is only one ring circuit as is a flat but I know I have to put what I have done on an rcd I can either lollipop it to an rcd enclosure or install a mini consumer unit with rcd and mcb what is best? Oh yeah customer does not want to pay for a whole new cu

to the O/P:
well...this thread`s been going for an hour....
so maybe i missed 60 minutes....
anyway, back to my question......what work have you actually done here because from reading your first post all i saw was a load of old nonsense....

 

[GLENNSPARK]

To hybrid or not to hybrid, that is the question, was this not a recent talking point with the Niceic recently in a newsletter, i vaguely remember reading about one.

@ chopper the classic is taking a cooker circuit, from the switch isolator or the outlet plate, and making a ring main off it. So as varilite has explained this takes the shape of a lollipop.

if disconnection times can be met and CCC is good etc....then theres nowt wrong with a hybrid circuit......period!!!!

 

[Toonlad]

if disconnection times can be met and CCC is good etc....then theres nowt wrong with a hybrid circuit......period!!!!

Totally agree..... period!!!!!

 

[varilite]

all sorted so i hearby declare this post officially closed

 

[Brightspark2]

all sorted so i hearby declare this post officially closed

And what about the thread?...

 

[Toonlad]

plenty more miles in this.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

all sorted so i hearby declare this post officially closed

i`ll tell yer when its closed....

 

[pennywise]

Jesus Tity ******g Christ what the hells going on with this place...........

 

[Stroppy]

I was wondering about 'lollipopping' a kitchen I'm redoing. As it stood half of the sockets / fixed appliances were on a 4mm radial (junction boxes everywhere in the loft) feeding other rooms as well, and the other half were on a 2.5 RFC, also feeding other rooms.

I have now rationalised the layout by getting rid of the RFC from the kitchen completely and leaving the 4mm radial feeding it, and a couple of unused bedroom single sockets. As it is I have fed the kitchen carrying on in 4mm, but the physical layout would lend itself to a ring. Would it have been acceptable to run two 2.5 legs of an RFC from one of the radial junction boxes to make it a lollipop, or should the 'stick' be a 6mm?