What type of consumer box

[DefyG]

Good luck with it.

 

[123]

All seems a bit of a strange design, he'd have been better running the SWA back to the Garage Consumer unit and putting the bar on it's own circuit. An MCB in an Rcd protected consumer unit isn't ideal for a distrubition circuit either. If the sockets in the garage are a ring then the fused spur would need to stay, it wouldn't matter if you used 25mm cable, the entire bar area would still be a spur off the ring and the limit for that is just 1 single or double socket.

 

[stevenson166]

All seems a bit of a strange design, he'd have been better running the SWA back to the Garage Consumer unit and putting the bar on it's own circuit. An MCB in an Rcd protected consumer unit isn't ideal for a distrubition circuit either. If the sockets in the garage are a ring then the fused spur would need to stay, it wouldn't matter if you used 25mm cable, the entire bar area would still be a spur off the ring and the limit for that is just 1 single or double socket.

Hi, I am sure it has its own 32amp circuit connected to the garage cu..why it has a fused spur before going outside ??

 

[123]

Hi, I am sure it has its own 32amp circuit connected to the garage cu..why it has a fused spur before going outside ??

Your photo shows a fused spur labelled "Pauls Bar" with the SWA cable heading out of it?

Not sure why it has an IP rated enclosure either given it's right beside a socket that doesn't. Strange setup.

 

[stevenson166]

Your photo shows a fused spur labelled "Pauls Bar" with the SWA cable heading out of it?

Not sure why it has an IP rated enclosure either given it's right beside a socket that doesn't. Strange setup.

After all these comments its bugging me now.. I will isolate leccy 2moz and have a look around the fused outlet

 

[James]

some armoured cable has its size embossed on the outside, every meter. will be something like BASEC CABLE BS123455* 3 X 4SQ MM
have a good look, it might give you a clue as to what cable it is.

 

[stevenson166]

some armoured cable has its size embossed on the outside, every meter. will be something like BASEC CABLE BS123455* 3 X 4SQ MM
have a good look, it might give you a clue as to what cable it is.

It says Electric Cable BS 5467 ce 600/1000 v

 

[James]

pity, some cable manufacturers put the size on too.

 

[stevenson166]

I have taken the covers off today of the twin socket and fused spur. It seems that the twin has x2 twin and earth cables feeding it and then x2 from there feeding the fused spur with the 6mm armoured inside. This then is sent to an opened end (dead) to the bar shed.

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