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Ring circuit question

m.j.w · 2011-04-12 16:39:08

Im loonging to put a new socket in an bedroom upstairs, all the upstairs sockets are on a ring circuit. There is a socket in the attic and was just wondering could I run a cable from that to the new socket without having to run a second to put it in the ring. So just branching of that socket if you know what I mean, is…

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12-04-2011 5:39pm

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m.j.w

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Im loonging to put a new socket in an bedroom upstairs, all the upstairs sockets are on a ring circuit. There is a socket in the attic and was just wondering could I run a cable from that to the new socket without having to run a second to put it in the ring. So just branching of that socket if you know what I mean, is this aganist the regs? The mcb is rated to 20amps

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#2 12-04-2011 7:16pm
M cebee

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might be a ring circuit derated to 20amp(breakers that came with CU)

and spur to attic

-your circuit is fused at 20amp anyhow
so your 2.5 will prob be protected if you connect

the old rules alllowed a short branch off a ring for a socket-this isn't allowed in the new rules

-everything goes on the ring now

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