Mark wrote:
Some time ago I fitted a new socket outlet in my son's bedroom. I had
no desire to go into the wall and hook into the existing ring main so
I decided to tap in somewhere else. Basically I tapped into the
immersion heater supply in the airing cupboard, (fused 30amp at the
consumer unit). Then I went through a 13amp fused spur, then up into
the attic, and then down into the bedroom using mini trunking, and
finally connected an RCD protected double socket. Everything fine.

Now I need to do the same in my daughter's room. My question is, if I
wire in parallel from the feed to the socket in my son's room do I
need to use another RCD protected socket? Or will the RCD in my son's
room provide protection for a regular parallel socket.

Safety is paramount of course but I don't want to spend 20 odd quid on
another RCD socket if I don't need to.

Incidentally the sockets are only for hi-fi/TV so I doubt the combined
load will ever exceed 5 amps.

Thanks

Mark, me old son, everything about your postings scream at me that you
haven't got a scoobydo what you're talking about. You even dismiss with
contempt the advice freely given by A R Wadsworth, a qualified sparky
who is telling you succinctly how the job should be done. Do yourself a
favour and get in a proper sparky. You really have no idea just how
little you know.

On 18 Dec 2006 21:03:15 -0800, "bob watkinson"
wrote:


Bob me old mate. As it happens I have a degree in electronics
engineering so I do feel I'm qualified to go 'poking about' in my
consumer unit. Just that I never bothered to find out how an RCD
works. Now I've located a circuit diagram of the inside of an RCD it
is clear to me that it will only protect loads connected downstream of
it. In the course of my work I have frequently suffered the cowboy
bodges of so called 'proper' sparkies in the factory environment where
H&S is paramount. In fact one nearly killed me when he assured me he
had isolated a circuit and it turned out he hadn't. So I tend to have
a healthy disrespect for 'proper' sparkies until they have
demonstrated the quality of their work to me. I also assume it was a
'proper' sparky who wired my house in the first place (new build) and
didn't tighten the screws in the back of two sockets resulting in them
burning out when first used with a high load. So please don't lecture
me about using professionals. I imagine many of the posters in this
group are into DIY, not because they want to save money or derive
pleasure from it, but because they want the job done right the first
time around.

Regarding the advice from A R Wadsworth, it was worth what I paid for
it. He is typical of many in newsgroups who seek to get on their
soapbox and berate and patronise posters rather than try to educate
and impart knowledge. Had someone simply answered my question and
explained how an RCD worked then it would have been job done.



Mark, me old son, everything about your postings scream at me that you
haven't got a scoobydo what you're talking about. You even dismiss with
contempt the advice freely given by A R Wadsworth, a qualified sparky
who is telling you succinctly how the job should be done. Do yourself a
favour and get in a proper sparky. You really have no idea just how
little you know.

Mark wrote:
On 18 Dec 2006 21:03:15 -0800, "bob watkinson"
wrote:


Bob me old mate. As it happens I have a degree in electronics
engineering so I do feel I'm qualified to go 'poking about' in my
consumer unit.

Perhaps, but you are the most dangerous type of bodger there is. The
type who actually believe their knowledge is greater than a specialist.
On you go mate, you've torn up the regulations and don't care whether
or not you kill anyone. Why ask advice anyhow if you don't like the
answer?