Andrew Gabriel wrote:
In article ,
David Hansen writes:
However, the
30/32A protective device doesn't protect the spur cable properly.
Spurs are a balance of risks, as indeed is any other form of wiring.
If houses were bursting into flames regularly because of problems
with spurs there would no doubt be a change. There was a change many

The 32A MCB provides suitable fault current protection for 2.5mm²
T&E cable, and the BS1362 fuse in the plug or FCU provides the
overload protection for the 2.5mm² T&E. The cable is properly
protected, but the fault current and overload current protection
have been separated. This is permitted by the regs previding the
fault current protection is at the beginning of the circuit, and
the overload current protection is before any branches, which it
is in the case of a spur.


Can you expand on that please Andrew for the hard of thinking like
myself.

Are you saying that 30/32A protection is fine for a circuit run from a
single piece of 2.5mm T & E if it only consists of sockets linked to
each other in a bus configuration or with just one device on each spur?

Or are you referring to spurs on rings (which is what *might* be being
about above, but wasn't the op's original question.

Not being funny here, just trying to understand what you are saying.