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On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 12:45:53 +0000 |
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> You would have thought it was easy to take a spur off of a socket that's |
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> part of a ring main, |
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It used to be easy enough - provided that the spur had no more than two |
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single sockets or one double. Maybe the regs have changed yet again. |
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> but believe me, as an amateur sparky it's NOT! They |
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> sell special points - often with a switch - to take a feed off a ring, |
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> and they all have a - mandatory - 16Amp fuse. Or they might take a |
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> standard 13Amp fuse. |
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I've never seen anything like that, but then I've been retired for 29 |
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years. Come to think of it, that's long enough to include several changes |
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of the regs. One wonders just where it's all going to end. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |