Stefek Zaba wrote
| Andrew Gabriel wrote:
| Martin Angove writes:
| Was in a house the other day where as far as I could tell there
| were four radial circuits feeding sockets, all fed from the
| same 20A fuse.

My mother's got one of them :-) Only it feeds two house sockets, the
bathroom radiant heater, and the garage socket.

thinks4 way Wylex board. Cooker, ring, lights, immersion, none spare. ...

Actually, it might do the immersion as well.

| Um, that's just one radial circuit.
| Shouldn't be a problem unless the loading is silly,
| like if it's doing a large kitchen and utility room.
| But since this is the normally thoroughly sensible Martin A
| speaking, he probably meant precisely that the four main
| branches of the single radial were indeed supplying loads/
| floor-areas considerably in excess of the reasonable burden
| on a single 20A circuit (not to mention the controllability/
| incovenience factors), and expected us as intelligent
| readers to infer this from context...

And the fact that taking 4 connections from one MCB/fuse terminal might not
be Good Practice, depending on the terminal design.

Owain