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There will always be an assessor on your first job @Dan Carroll, I’d advise an easier job as your first assessment mate.....once you are a member the technical department will give you all advice you need, have only skimmed through the thread but why are you using 22 as your lb?Hopefully, I've just completed the part p course, so going to give a body a call, (prob niceic, unless you can advise otherwise), so should be able to do it myself. Concern would be if I have an assessor.
I'm going to phone them tomorrow. Can I get away with wiring a plugThere will always be an assessor on your first job @Dan Carroll, I’d advise an easier job as your first assessment mate.....
Not sure you could write a large enough cheque for that mate ha ha ha but seriously being realistic a small Cu change is gonna be easier from a design and calcs perspective than extending to an out building...That's an added bonus, but primarily its for the work experience.
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I'm going to phone them tomorrow. Can I get away with wiring a plug
Not sure you could write a large enough cheque for that mate ha ha ha but seriously being realistic a small Cu change is gonna be easier from a design and calcs perspective than extending to an out building...
I’m sure your corner cutting came after many years in the trade with lots of experience, I dare say you’d never even consider it at the beginning of your time? I think your doing the right thing here and trying to understand and do it properly, trouble is here once you’ve touched it and signed it off you are now responsible for it, is this install already here or are you designing it now? If so follow @telectrix advice mate...True.
I have, in my time ignored, cut corners, and done my own thing, mechanically on helicopters, BUT it was always safe, I knew the procedures and the risks, and it was only on the item's that where not essential or important. Where you could apply common sense to get the correct result.
I feel (and again, stop me if I'm out of order) that volt drop is like that.
I appreciate that there is a time and place where it is vitally important, but to run a few LEDs and a phone charger, doesn't seem to be one of them
Out of interest, why is it not best practice to run the outside feed from a FCU to a CU? The FCU is protecting the cable. Could there not be a case of installing a larger swa?
Remember I'm still new to this
By the way, why? I thought pretty much everything has to be RCD protected. I know there are exceptions
Good point. Do you think in a situation such as this it would be reasonable to do away with the FCU, and have the whole outbuilding on a 16A breaker?It’s also rather pointless having a cu in the outbuilding with a 16A MCB if the origin has a current limit of 13Amp.
You are supposed to provide discrimination of protective devices.
Good point. Do you think in a situation such as this it would be reasonable to do away with the FCU, and have the whole outbuilding on a 16A breaker?
The client is actually a friend, who knows exactly where I am with regards to my current position. At no point have they been misled into thinking I'm anything other than what I actually am.It's not fair on a customer for them to think they are employing a qualified professional when they are actually paying for someone to practice and get their designs checked/reviewed by a bunch of strangers on a forum.
I hope you can appreciate they didn't cover this scenario on either the 2365 lever 2 or 3, or the 18th edition, or the part P courses.basic level of knowledge and experience needed
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