I wanna a TV in my Gym......

[Lectrician]

Found this during a CU change....

The iso backs onto a shower......

Excuse hazy pic!

I am sure you can guess where the they have taken the feed for the socket from!

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• Lectrician
• 20 Jun 2008
• 1

 

[rssteve]

what size cable is the socket fed in? and what is protecting the circuit?

 

[Lectrician]

Supprisingly, 16mm T+E for the shower circuit (clipped holey direct!)

50amp MCB.

Socket spurred in 2.5mm.










Yep, short circuit and overcurrent may be met in sub-standard type way, but this is certainly not a recommended or conventional way to provide power for a new socket.

 

[Click-Sure]

16mm T&E, thats not something you see very often, sure it wasn't 10mm?

Then again, I have seen some very over-spec stuff used before, normally when people can get their hands on it cheap/free.

Seen a WHOLE house wired perfectly correctly in SWA. Dunno about the integrity of the walls in places as a result tho!

 

[Lectrician]

sure it wasn't 10mm?

Very sure.

I have an eye for cable sizes

Thats why I said 'surprisingly' - Especially as it was clipped through a crawl space beneath ground level, and then on the plastered wall in the gym, directly through a single skin block wall.

 

[Click-Sure]

Its a shame that copper scrap doesn't work as hard for us sparks compared to the plumbers!

 

[plugwash]

Yep, short circuit and overcurrent may be met in sub-standard type way

What is substandard about it? I don't see it as much different from the socket on a cooker control unit. The plug fuse will provide overcurrent protection and I suspect the 50A breaker will provide adequate short circuit protection (though you would have to calculate the adibatic to be sure).

What is going on arround that socket, it looks like the TV is plugged into some kind of multi-plug adaptor but it's hard to be sure from such a low res pic.

 

[Lectrician]

Substandard?

Non standard may be a better way of putting of it.

Are you saying this is a satisfactory and a conventional way of installing an additional socket outlet?

Come on plug, we all now the gumf behind the argument, but it is still far from a satisfactory way for this to be done.

 

[ricicle]

Its a shame that copper scrap doesn't work as hard for us sparks compared to the plumbers!

It does Kg for Kg, bright wire copper is a couple of hundred quid a tonne more than heavy copper