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Why would you us a ring for this? Dedicated circuits for heavy appliances are normally better off installed as radials.
A ring serving only heavy appliances may be the better solution. And a cheaper solution if say using AFDDs. Then only one needs to be used.

Three radials say with expensive AFDDs or RCBO's, can be quite expensive for no to little gain over a ring.
 
A ring serving only heavy appliances may be the better solution. And a cheaper solution if say using AFDDs. Then only one needs to be used.

Three radials say with expensive AFDDs or RCBO's, can be quite expensive for no to little gain over a ring.

Better in what regard?

Certainly not in terms of dealing with earth leakage, where 30mA protection is mandated at source. At the present time, there's no requirent to fit AFDDs for circuits suppling applainces, in the vast majority of domestic installations, so their realtively high cost (for now) is of little consequence.
 
A ring serving only heavy appliances may be the better solution. And a cheaper solution if say using AFDDs. Then only one needs to be used.

Three radials say with expensive AFDDs or RCBO's, can be quite expensive for no to little gain over a ring.

You're just turning this into the thread that was closed last week.
 
Because it works 24/7/365, drawing a fair bit of amps. Sockets were not intended or designed for such permanent use. No one would wire a 3kW immersion on a 13A socket. I have seen large fridge sockets get brown with heat.

If a plug and socket have a problem with 750 Watts then you haven't fitted them properly.
 
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Because it works 24/7/365, drawing a fair bit of amps. Sockets were not intended or designed for such permanent use. No one would wire a 3kW immersion on a 13A socket. I have seen large fridge sockets get brown with heat.

'Drawing a fair bit of amps' at 750W? 3.26A to be precise.

No one would place a 3kW immersion heater on a 13A socket because doing so would involve terrible design, exceed its 13A rating and also would be out of step with the regulatory reccomendation that all fixed loads over 2kW be placed on their own dedicated circuit.

As such, any comparision between a 750W fridge and 3kW immersion heater is pointless.

Would you consider powering a 3kW immersion heater from your theoretical 'ring final busbar'?
 
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A ring serving only heavy appliances may be the better solution. And a cheaper solution if say using AFDDs. Then only one needs to be used.

Three radials say with expensive AFDDs or RCBO's, can be quite expensive for no to little gain over a ring.

Why has one appliance circuit suddenly become 3? You're moving the goal posts to suit your point.

Yes of course 1 circuit is cheaper to install than 3, that's pretty obvious.
 
No one would wire a 3kW immersion on a 13A socket.

As a temporary measure most people will do exactly that, but no you wouldn't normally as a permanent connection.

But an immersion heater is very different to a fridge.
A fridge is a stand-alone appliance, supplied with a flexible cable and plug and is intended to be connected by that cable and plug.
An immersion heater is a component to be installed into a larger system, it is supplied without any cable or plug and is designed to be connected, by whatever means is appropriate, by whoever assembles that larger system.
There's nothing to say that immersion heater can't be connected by a plug and socket, but I think most of us would be more likely to use a 15A or 16A socket rather than a 13A one.

I have seen large fridge sockets get brown with heat.

We've all seen sockets burned out. Not that long ago I had to replace a 63A socket which had completely burned out and had a plug stuck in it. This doesn't prove anything.
 

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