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David wrote:
Checking my thinking for any gotchas.

I am reorganising the office and putting a couple of kitchen drawer
units with a desktop across up against one wall.

There is only one double socket at the moment and this is on the
opposite wall.

My plan is to take power to the wall under the desktop then fit some
switched 13A sockets into the desktop itself, instead of having several
sockets in the wall below and distribution boards feeding from the
desktop down to them.

Now it looks fairly simple to put a switched fused spur into a box in
the wall below the desk, then just wire from the box to the sockets on
top.

Fit a switched FCU spurred off your ring in a convenient position feeded a
socket in another convenient position. Then multiway socket extension
lead(s) from that. Nothing domestic computer wise take much in the way of
current.

It seems that the electrical load would be no more than having extension
leads with loads of sockets.

Is there a downside?

Apart from one switch taking out the whole desktop instead of a couple
of switched sockets?

It looks neater, but probably far more expensive through using boxes and
switched sockets instead of the 6 way extension leads that I currently
use.

I suppose one downside is the temptation for me (or another) to plug
another multi-socket extension lead into the desktop socket, putting
more load on the spur than you would get if plugged directly into a 13A
ring main. A bit like the traditional cascade of extension leads
beloved by computer users.

The alternative would be to extend the 13A ring main to the desktop but
I'm not sure quite how to wire that.


Cheers


Dave R

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