So running a supply out to the shed to run a socket and a light (small small shed....garage to come later when funds allow) as putting tools away with the aid of a head torch is a pain in the posterior and finding stuff after dark is a nightmare.
Using some leftover 3 core 1.5mm2 XLPE SWA, only available run is along the fence (4x4 wooden posts concreted in, with timber 2 x 3/4 runners and 3x1 timber slats...its not going anywhere). Can't go under ground as manhole covers in the way (seemingly every house I live in has the streets drains running through the gardens....)
According to the book....the current capacity of 1.5mm2 XLPE SWA should be around 27amps clipped direct, so my thinking at the moment is to gland the SWA off to the outside socket thats part of the small kitchen ring final, use the SWA armour as the CPC, sleeve the grey core blue as a neutral and take 2 separate line feeds using the black (sleeved brown of course) and brown cores, Adaptable box outside the shed into 2 separate T+Es through shed wall and trunking/conduit inside shed to protect the cable where needed) black core to feed a 3A SFCU for a light and the brown to feed the socket as a spur.
Only issue thats nagging me is the shared neutral between the 2 line feeds (load at the shed socket will be at the very most 13amps (single power tool use and maybe a radio, at worst I'll stick an FCU in at the shed end) ), though its on the same circuit so shouldn't present a problem if I have my head screwed on right today (which after the dreaded dentist visit today isn't entirely guaranteed)
Thoughts?
Using some leftover 3 core 1.5mm2 XLPE SWA, only available run is along the fence (4x4 wooden posts concreted in, with timber 2 x 3/4 runners and 3x1 timber slats...its not going anywhere). Can't go under ground as manhole covers in the way (seemingly every house I live in has the streets drains running through the gardens....)
According to the book....the current capacity of 1.5mm2 XLPE SWA should be around 27amps clipped direct, so my thinking at the moment is to gland the SWA off to the outside socket thats part of the small kitchen ring final, use the SWA armour as the CPC, sleeve the grey core blue as a neutral and take 2 separate line feeds using the black (sleeved brown of course) and brown cores, Adaptable box outside the shed into 2 separate T+Es through shed wall and trunking/conduit inside shed to protect the cable where needed) black core to feed a 3A SFCU for a light and the brown to feed the socket as a spur.
Only issue thats nagging me is the shared neutral between the 2 line feeds (load at the shed socket will be at the very most 13amps (single power tool use and maybe a radio, at worst I'll stick an FCU in at the shed end) ), though its on the same circuit so shouldn't present a problem if I have my head screwed on right today (which after the dreaded dentist visit today isn't entirely guaranteed)
Thoughts?
