mrcheerful
. wrote:
"Martin Pentreath" wrote in message
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Rather than running two cables can I (for the sake of neatness and
economy of cable) use four-core cable, with two separately-switched
lives? The fountain and the lighting would then both share the neutral
and the earth. Just need to know so that I can order some cable and put
it in now.

It will work, but:
If your paired neutral fails after it is paired then BOTH appliances will be
live (one through the neutral side), yet neither working, surely that is not
a good idea from a safety point of view.

mrcheerful

a non issue unless for some reason you decide to connect the cases to
the neutral conductor. While common enough in the US, so I hear, its
not done here.


NT