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Dennis@home

On 27/05/2015 20:50, wrote:
dennis@home wrote:
On 27/05/2015 14:10, GB wrote:

I did wonder whether the cable is overspecified to allow for this.

No it isn't in a 2.5 mm2 circuit.

its wholly able to support real life ring loads. Running hotter merely reduces its service life from near infinity.

There must be loads of ring mains with breaks or dodgy connections,
but the number of electrical fires is fairly small.

They are small numbers in all the modern wiring systems.
Radials don't catch fire often either.

there are lots of fires of electrical origin

There aren't lots of fires so there can't be lots of electrical fires.
Most would be from appliances and not the fixed wiring anyway.

Fires are about 50% less in number than 10 years ago (in houses).