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A donut of a builder has helpfully run a piece of swa two core 16mm to a small feature fountain fitted with 1.5mm flex, suggestions on best way to join, couldn’t get the 16mm in a wago!
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I sincerely hope your reply was/is tongue in cheek shaun1.Whats it going into at the other end? In this situation, I can't see any technical reason why just putting one or 2 strands of the 16mm into a wago and cutting the others off. You would probably still have to put heatrink over the end to insulate the rest of them. Not sure how easy it would be to justify/sign off though.
I sincerely hope your reply was/is tongue in cheek shaun1.
sounds a decent soloution with beer in the brain.let me look agian tomorrow, or the next day, or next year, whenever i run out of beer, .....(that will be the day that i go to my grave/crem/hole in the garden/ whatever SWMBO wants. .Im DIY so don't shout at me, but I've done something very similar in the past for family who had knocked down an old garage and made garden bigger so wanted to have a light where the garage was.
16mm in to a resin bullet to 6mm SWA (using the screw down and snap bolt crimps) and then fed the 6mm in to a wiska 308 with swa gland and 1.5mm flex out on a compression before for a light.
Resin joint 450mm down, wiska box on a wooden post. MCB downrated to 6a at supply.
sounds a decent soloution with beer in the brain.let me look agian tomorrow, or the next day, or next year, whenever i run out of beer, .....(that will be the day that i go to my grave/crem/hole in the garden/ whatever SWMBO wants. .
Trouble was Shaun, you were thinking it and then said it out loud!Well not entirely no. Obviously I would never consider cutting strands off a cable if it was correctly sized and carrying somewhere near its capacity. But in this case, presumably only a 1.5mm cable is required for CCC, and one strand of a 7 strand 16mm must be more than 1.5mm CSA, so what actual reason is there not to use it in this way providing ita suitibly protected for the 1.5mm?
And you could place the ferruled end of the flex neatly in the strands of the 16, that would work and be cost effective.What is wrong with a bit of 60A terminal strip in a moulded box and a crimp on the flex.
Gland the SWA into the box and put the 16mm² in one side of the terminal block and the crimped flex in the other.
I sincerely hope your reply was/is tongue in cheek shaun1.
It is for a pond pump, not a outdoor hot tub, with Pampas grass and saunas
So do you condone that form of butchery then? Should have had the right sized cable installed in the first place, and not left it to a builder,who probably thought "got some 10mm in the shed, I know I'll use that"It is for a pond pump, not a outdoor hot tub, with Pampas grass and saunas
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