On 09/11/2017 13:21, pamela wrote:
On 22:24 8 Nov 2017, Tim Watts wrote:

On 08/11/17 22:00, pamela wrote:

36A is a lot. Wouldn't that melt the insulation on the wires?


No. The current carrying capacity of a cable is determined by
(mostly) how hot it gets.

A ring final circuit is designed to run forever at 32A with a
max of 20A in any part of the cabling.

I thought it was 13A because that is the max rating for an plugged in
appliance.

A ring circuit can supply many sockets over a floor area of up to
100m^2. So even if the individual load on a single plug does not exceed
13A, the total load on the circuit can be much greater.

So does that means I could safely run two 10A appliances from the
same wall outlet?

Modern double sockets are nominally specced at 20A continuous load. Good
quality ones will tolerate 26A of load for a reasonably period -
although perhaps not continuously.


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Cheers,

John.

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