Is it allowed to take a spur to feed under cupboard lights from a cooker circuit?
derekhughes said:Is it allowed to take a spur to feed under cupboard lights from a cooker circuit?
pdcelec said:Why not spur from the kitchen ring?
derekhughes said:That is what I would have done -
derekhughes said:I have had a kitchen installed and the electrician (?) has taken a 1.5mm cable from a junction box in the cooker cable to a switched spur box.
This does not seem right to me!
Derek
others claim that provided the smaller cable gives adequate short cuircuit protection and you have a fuse downstream to protect it from overload then its fine.
not if they were deaduser56565 said:the short circuit would trip the MCB almost instantly. whoever sliced into it would know immediately, and would (i hope) get it fixed.
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