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Reply #17 - Jun 1st, 2004, 3:22pm
 
[quote author=L.Spark  link=1084999130/0#2 date=1085014384]oval shaped cable 10mm rated at current of ~43A+ [/quote]
Cupid - I know it's v.unlikely you'll make this mistake, but JIC - this doesn't mean you need to find some twin & earth cable that measures 10mm across...


[quote author=rabbit_rabbit  link=1084999130/0#9 date=1085429275]Well yes TT. Indeed it is a big problem with forums really. It is not possible, when ya think about it, for any non-experienced person or DIYer, to put into writing the data that a pro actually needs. Almost by definition were they able to then they would not be asking the question coz they will know the answer. [/quote]
Yes - but it's not hard for a pro, or even a DIYer, to ask the questions like "what is the rating of the appliance, does the CCU have a socket, how long is the cable, is it buried/clipped, do you have fuses or MCBs" etc...
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Reply #18 - Jun 1st, 2004, 3:25pm
 
[quote author=plugwash  link=1084999130/0#12 date=1085874083]there comes the old "feasiblly supply equipment outside the equipotential zone" argument again Wink [/quote]
Yup, and with it comes the old and undeniable fact that unless you live in a flat such a socket could feasibly etc etc, and the old and undeniable regs require an RCD...
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Reply #19 - Jun 1st, 2004, 9:11pm
 
I am taking on board some realy good information here guys and i thank each and every one of you THANK YOU.
This is just a thought when you wire a new build (house/flat) ect, how you no what rating cooker is going to be? i am not being picky one little bit,as i said just a thought.
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Reply #20 - Jun 1st, 2004, 9:17pm
 
then you put in 10mm or even 16mm to be safe
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Reply #21 - Jun 2nd, 2004, 7:46am
 
I think it is almost getting to the stage where 2x6mm or 2x10mm are needed, on some new houses we have done recently, there has been a 6Kw Hob, 4.5Kw Oven, and a 4Kw Microwave.  

You really do need the info on the appliances before we you start first fixing, there is so much on the market nowadays.

Strange aint it that we now have to install a couple energy saving pendents in a new build, but the cooking appliances are getting unbelievably large Smiley
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Reply #22 - Jun 2nd, 2004, 9:45am
 
How long, I wonder, before we start to see 3-phase appliances?
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Reply #23 - Jun 2nd, 2004, 9:54am
 
Fitted a large washer dryer into a house last year (fitted meaning free standing but hard wired.)

It was an american style one, and was 28amp.  (you could wash and dry at once.

This model had the links inside it so you could either use it as 28amp single phase, or 10amp 3phase.
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Reply #24 - Jun 2nd, 2004, 1:14pm
 
yeah the latter means of connection is included for countrys where low current 3 phase suppplies are around

like a know someone in the netherlands who has 3 phase 25A per phase to his house

also from what fwl-engineer has said i think it will be more efficiant on 3 phase

also if you do have a high current 3 phase board (ie big enough to wire it as either single or 3 phase) it would almost certainly save on cable size to use 3 phase
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Reply #25 - Jun 2nd, 2004, 3:25pm
 
I know some properties near me that have 3ph, with a maximum demand of 30amp, although fused at 100amp.

The REC did this because the houses where at the end of a long run of supply cable (existing), with no HV around to supply them.
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Reply #26 - Jun 2nd, 2004, 3:31pm
 
So are the houses actually wired with 3 different phases?
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Reply #27 - Jun 2nd, 2004, 3:36pm
 
Each house has a 3 phase intake.  Its lucky they are large, there is a fuseboard on each floor fed fromm a 3phase board at the intake (so no 400v labels needed which would be awfull!!).

Also good, cause he has a 3phase swimming pool pump, and 3phase calorex dehumid for the pool.
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Reply #28 - Jun 2nd, 2004, 4:06pm
 
So presumably no multi-gang 2-way or intermediate light switches for lights on different floors, otherwise some switches would have 2 or 3 different phases present.

Or are the lights all on 1 phase for all floors?
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Reply #29 - Jun 2nd, 2004, 4:11pm
 
We thought of this in the design.  Switches at the bottom/top of the stairs for the large chandelier lights (which light all floors cause its an open stair well).  

Lights for each floor are switched by the doors of rooms.  Therfore no switches can ever be touched simultaneously.  Difficult to explain exact positions, and what lighs are switched, but it works fine.  When you come down to the ground floor, you have a short walk before you can turn on the ground floor lights.  This doesn't matter as the chandelier on the upper floors lights the gnd floor aswell.
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