T & E in conduit calculation help please

[Dan]

Keep the thread on topic and if you can't help the OP don't post in the thread.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Hi Guys, I apologise in advance as I have done this a**se about face, I have just finished putting power to my shed ( I am currently training to become a sparks got my 17th edition at pass in Watford shortly) and hoping to use my shed as my part p inspection as hoping to join ELECSA. Anyhow I have run 6mm T and E in 20mm plastic conduit, the run is about 10metres long and it had to go up and around a gate on its path to the shed (its all solid driveway so couldn't bury anything) so there are 7 x 90 degree elbows (never again !) and I want to make sure I have the correct rating but not sure how to work it out ? The OSG page 135 gives me a Cable factor of 58 then on page 136 is a multitude of figures for Conduit Factors but I cant seem to find a formula ?
Much obliged for any enlightenment ! Many thanks Mike

PS Next time I shall learn to terminate SWA instead !

Next time learn how to form 90 degree bends in the conduit without using elbows!!

 

[shanky887614]

Next time learn how to form 90 degree bends in the conduit without using elbows!!

they stock bending springs at screwfix, much easier to bend it and use through boxes when adding more lengths

 

[stevethesparks]

Next time learn how to form 90 degree bends in the conduit without using elbows!!

Use your knees instead

 

[Pete999]

Sorry can't help really, only to say it's a bit of a rough old job, 6mm T&E in 20mm plastic tube with 7 90 degree bends really come on.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Use your knees instead

Exactly!! ...... just bend the conduit over your knee!!

 

[shanky887614]

Exactly!! ...... just bend the conduit over your knee!!

dont forget the bending spring or you kink it though

 

[Rockingit]

Words fail me. Yet again, and again, and again, we've a thread where the only best advice to the OP is to go and get trained properly. Half a clue is Zero an answer.

That being said, maybe a career in comedy instead? I think most of us would have been thoroughly entertained by the sight of 6mm TE in 20mm with 9 elbows!!

 

[Knobhead]

Next time learn how to form 90 degree bends in the conduit without using elbows!!

I think learning how to plan a rout is the key here. That made me think of my old foreman, my ears started ringing.

But we may as well talk to ourselves, the OP seems to have abandoned ship.

 

[Geordie Spark]

dont forget the bending spring or you kink it though

Don't tell him .... let him find out for himself.

I used to use them for bending copper pipe then I got myself a proper bender & thought my birthday and Christmas had both come together.

 

[Knobhead]

That being said, maybe a career in comedy instead? I think most of us would have been thoroughly entertained by the sight of 6mm TE in 20mm with 9 elbows!!

Even better get him to do it with real conduit not plastic. Let’s see him put the cable though the elbow and then screw it up.

It would be a screw up.

 

[tidyboiler]

I got myself a proper bender.

:38: or 2!!!!

 

[richy3333]

Yikes. I've been away for a short while and find mods are moderating and Eng54 isn't ripping the arse out of a post. What will the world come to I ask!?

The op says in the original post he doesn't know how to terminate SWA but wants assessing by a scam. Aren't they going to ask why the cable run wasn't done in SWA? And he's going to say 'we haven't covered that on the course'! Pay the money, hand out the chocky biscuits and let them rubber stamp the application, else fit some SWA and of you can't terminate correctly brodge the cable ends and throw in a couple of BS951 clamps. That's what they do around here

 

[trev]

Well I typed out a response to this but then realised it wouldn't fit in with the touchy feely hug a Electrical Trainee approach that seems to be the way forward now.
So I'll just say that words fail me. That way I can't get told off.

 

[Rockingit]

mods are moderating and Eng54 isn't ripping the arse out of a post. What will the world come to I ask!?

The world has come to, I am sadly led to believe, a place where sadly E54 is currently finding himself being post by post moderated in order to maintain the party line and not upset half the forums sponsors by speaking the truth about Electrical Trainee's. Although, from posts like this one they clearly are not afraid of advertising their own incompetence to a global audience.

It would seem the state of the UK electrical industry is not the only organisation in denial.