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Andrew Gabriel
 
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Mark Williams ] writes:
(Andrew Gabriel) writes:

When doing a whole ring circuit, I usually try to see if I can
install it as one single uncut length of cable from the CU back to
the CU. This way you never get any cumlative contact resistances in
the ring itself.


Is this with singles or T&E?


I've done it with both.

This isn't something I religiously stick to. Simply, where possible
I avoid cutting conductors which are to be reconnected. If you see a
ring circuit I'm installing at first fix, you'll see the cable loops
in and out of each back box. If I get a whole ring installed in one
uncut piece, I give myself a pat on the back.

If the latter; how do you fit earth
sleeving over the unbroken protective conductor: single sleeve over
doubled conductor?


You feed both the wires through the same hole, and sleeve the folded
CPC with one piece wide enough to take two conductors.

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Andrew Gabriel