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Default Doubling up underground cable.

Andy Burns wrote:
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Doubling up two of these cables



If you mean using conductors in parallel on the same circuit, that is
generally frowned on.


But is this any different from a ring main in essence?

heavy direct burial cable is expensive.



1.5mm 2 core SWA £0.88/m
2.5mm 2 core SWA £0.91/m
4.0mm 2 core SWA £1.20/m
6.0mm 2 core SWA £1.60/m

From
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_Ind...SWA/index.html
seems proportionately cheaper to me

Or is it best to have each cable on an mcb at the CU and no garage CU
with just two isolators as the cable enters the garage?



If you really want to use multiple cables then that would appear to be a
better way of doing it.


Agreed.

Steve.