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supersparky Administrator Trade Member Author Offline Posts: 6097 Total Thanks: 3 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Max load for 8mm flat twin and earth cable Mar 12^th, 2005, 9:46pm 8mm dosnt exist are you measuring the cores across? we use the mm2 measurment for cable csa ss
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ash59uk Newbie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 2 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0	Re: Max load for 8mm flat twin and earth cable Reply #1 - Mar 12^th, 2005, 10:43pm Yes it 8mm/2 I believe 10mm/2 is the norm now
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supersparky Administrator Trade Member Author Offline Posts: 6097 Total Thanks: 3 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Max load for 8mm flat twin and earth cable Reply #2 - Mar 12^th, 2005, 11:16pm im sorry mate, as far as i know and in the industry since 1994 ive never known or seen 8mm2 how are you comming to 8mm? are you measuring with a ruler or is it written on the cable sheath? cheers ss
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ash59uk Newbie Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 2 Total Thanks: 0 For This Post: 0	Re: Max load for 8mm flat twin and earth cable Reply #3 - Mar 12^th, 2005, 11:47pm I will have to check the cable, I was under the impression it was 8 mm/2 perhaps its 10mm/2
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supersparky Administrator Trade Member Author Offline Posts: 6097 Total Thanks: 3 For This Post: 0 Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Max load for 8mm flat twin and earth cable Reply #4 - Mar 12^th, 2005, 11:50pm well, if you could establish that, also, what route does it take? i.e does it run through loft insulation, aproximatly how long for, what size the breaker(MCB) is, is there an RCD. and also how long the route it takes is. with that info we can work it out for ya cheers ss
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LSpark Global Moderator Trade Member Author Offline Posts: 8069 Total Thanks: 3 For This Post: 0 London, UK United Kingdom Gender: Trade: Electrician	Re: Max load for 8mm flat twin and earth cable Reply #5 - Mar 12^th, 2005, 11:56pm 8mm....nope, sorry
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