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How many 2.5mm T&E into a 13A socket?
I have a dual 13A socket under my kitchen sink - powering the dishwasher
and waste disposal device. I need power for an additional appliance and would prefer to install an additional socket rather than use a 2-way adapter. The current socket has 3 x 2.5mm T&E cables connected to it - which I assume to be two for the ring main plus a spur. The cables all disappear behind the cabinets (I didn't install them!) and there's no easy way of knowing which is the spur - other than separating the 3 and finding out what doesn't then work, etc. If there were only two, it would be easy to wire the new socket into the ring by diverting one of the two to it and then having another short cable between the two sockets. If I randomly pick one of the three to divert, I may well achieve the same thing. But I may instead end up with two daisy-chained spurs. [This probably wouldn't matter in practice, even though it's not in accordance with the regs]. However, if I could get FOUR wires into the existing socket, I would have a ring plus two separate spurs - which would presumably be ok? I wouldn't then need to worry about which one is the spur. Is this likely to be possible? Any other relevant comments (ignoring Part P, of course!)? -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked. |
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