On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 14:07:02 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


I have 20m of 10mm2 SWA already laid and buried between the garage and a yard master shed.

One end of the SWA cable is currently outside the yard master shed where it comes out of the patio at the bottom of the garden.

I had the idea of fitting a IEC 309 IP67 rated male socket onto the yardmaster shed externally and then running a 10mm2 twin and earth from this to a consumer unit within and also to fit a IEC 309 IP67 rated female plug onto the end of the 10mm2 SWA cable. The idea being that I can plug the SWA cable into the external socket fitted on the yardmaster.

The other end would connect into a 45A cooker style switch in the garage and then onward to a 32A Time delayed RCBO in the main house consumer unit.

So can a IEC 309 female plug be fitted onto the end of a 10mm2 SWA cable?

The terminals in the 16A and 32A versions only fit 2.5mm^2 and 6mm^2 conductors
respectively, with a 63A version you can fit up to 16mm^2 and the outside
diameter should fit the gland. But 63A connectors are quite expensive and
circuit protection arrangements where there are pluggable and possibly variable
elements could be less than effective.

Are you somehow wishing to avoid a 'permanent' installation so as to ignore the
requirements of prat P?

A set of terminals, an IP rated box, a bit of DIN rail and some suitable glands
are maybe 20 quid.


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