Outdoor socket.. Help please?

[DPrice]

As title says.

Me and my dad have been thinking of doing this for a while so thought id ask for some suggestions on here.

We want to put a single outdoor socket on the side of our house for a small charger which stays outside.

In the house there is a double socket just over 2 feet to one side of where wed like the socket to be outside.

Would it be o.k if i spur off of this through the wall, and take a short bit of a plastic conduit from the wall to the outdoor socket?

Or does anyone else have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

 

[pennywise]

If the fans spur is part of the original ring it's fine. If it's not and it's already a spur itself, then you may have to put in an additional fused spur that has a 13amp fuse in it, then feed both the fan spur and new outside socket from the load side to prevent a unfused spur off a spur.

 

[pmac10]

Or you could call it,
An accidental low-resistance connection between two points in an electric circuit, resulting in either excessive current flow that often causes damage or in a new shorter circuit that draws current away from the original pathways and components.
I can't split hairs with you, not with a name like baldsparkies.

i could try and top that but at this stage of the evening,beer is involved
what i meant was, a short circuit, ie, phase to neutral, shorting out load will not trip an rcd

 

[baldsparkies]

Blimey Pennywise your worst than my missus, from no spur needed to three of the buggers
Just kidding mate, just kidding, Agree with you on this and the logic behind it, just wanted to add, make sure the fan spur is off the ringmain and not fed from the lighting circuit (Fans sometimes are)

 

[pennywise]

Blimey Pennywise your worst than my missus, from no spur needed to three of the buggers
Just kidding mate, just kidding, Agree with you on this and the logic behind it, just wanted to add, make sure the fan spur is off the ringmain and not fed from the lighting circuit (Fans sometimes are)

I change like the wind I got it down to two fused spurs, can add another if you like

 

[baldsparkies]

i could try and top that but at this stage of the evening,beer is involved
what i meant was, a short circuit, ie, phase to neutral, shorting out load will not trip an rcd

I know exactly what you mean mate no worries. Enjoy the beer, by the way you forgot phase to phase (Oh know here I go again)

 

[DPrice]

Thanks Pemnywise - i'm certain it's already a spur itself.

Is what your saying one of the options I suggested?

Which is add a new fused spur supplied by the fans fused spur, then run the new supply to the outdoor socket?

Sorry if I'm being stupid or confusing.

 

[baldsparkies]

Your existing fused spur load side, supplies a new fused spur for the fan, along with the supply for the outside socket. Read pennywises post it makes sense.

 

[DPrice]

So just to clarify - existing fused spur will supply new fused spur

Which will supply both the fan and outdoor socket.

 

[chris gray]

1st fcu will feed the outside skt + 2nd fcu
2nd fcu will feed othe fan

 

[DPrice]

Thanks Chris_gray - that's exactly what I suggested further up the post.

But Reading other posts suggests otherwise.

Or I'm just reading them wrong.

I think I'm just going to do it that way!