Level 3 C&G cable sizing calculations

As well as that, as I pointed out, the regulation is written for a BS3036 30A fuse so the cable has to be derated by the 0.725 factor.
27 x 0.725 = 19.575.

Therefore, it is not really possible to match values to a 32A MCB with the mandatory things you must do.


Yes, but it does not allow you to use a 20A cable (except MICC); you must use a 27A 2.5mm² T&E.


Obviously it cannot. See above.


That is not the correct answer.

Using 4mm² cable it would not need to be a ring final; it could be a radial; therefore the question is invalid.

433.1.204 Accessories to BS 1363 may be supplied through a ring final circuit, with or without unfused spurs,
protected by a 30 A or 32 A protective device complying with BS 88 series, BS 3036, BS EN 60898, BS EN 60947-2
or BS EN 61009-1 (RCBO). The circuit shall be wired with copper conductors having line and neutral conductors
with a minimum cross-sectional area of 2.5 mm2
except for two-core mineral insulated cables complying with
BS EN 60702-1, for which the minimum cross-sectional area is 1.5 mm2. Such circuits are deemed to meet the
requirements of Regulation 433.1.1 if the current-carrying capacity (Iz) of the cable is not less than 20 A and if,
under the intended conditions of use, the load current in any part of the circuit is unlikely to exceed for long periods
the current-carrying capacity (Iz) of the cable.


No sums necessary.
Alas putting "No sums necessary" would not be the 'right' answer as far as the C&G exam marker is concerned...

This wouldn't be the first exam question I've read that has a 'correct' answer that is very dubious...

At least it's not me being thick. Somehow I just need to figure out how C&G come up with their answers...
 
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I am not au fait with the 18th, but a heating eng I know said that a spark he knows told him that ring finals and 3036s were deleted in AMD3.

I guess they are both still very much part of 7671?
 
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Re C&G questions, when I took my 17th update, I got one question wrong out of 60 and was disappointed. I knew what question it was, and I considered it very confusingly worded, but they insisted it was good.
 

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