Discuss Fusebox being fed by a ring main in the Electrical Wiring, Theories and Regulations area at ElectriciansForums.net
is it a good design - course not.
is it normal practice - nope
is it dangerous - not really
no matter what you add to the ring and however its wired its still limited to 32A.
if you replaced the remote CU with 3 spurs to feed those sockets and lights no-one would bat an eyelid.
the only downsides are uneven loading of the ring legs and no dicrimination between the mcbs.
must dash now , tels pulling a fast one in our chess game lol..........
Sorry Biff but I HAVE to disagree. You could easily overload the RFC with such a configuration and it needs to be reviewed/improved. Anyone adding further sockets/breakers to the DB needs their bumps felt.
I read it as an RFC straight off the main switch of the original board to feed the sub-board. Happy to stand corrected though.
It feeds 4 other double sockets as well and fused at main DB at 32Amps
You could end up running the RFC at 32 amps constantly, a RFC is design with diversity in mine i.e. it will not run 32 amp all the time I have seen a RFC
installed to supply 3 heaters, T&E had over heated and gone brittle when I check current draw it was between 30 and 34 amps
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