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Minimum Number of Circuits Competition in a Domestic Dwelling.

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I am starting a competition for all forum members as to the least number of final circuits found supplying a domestic residential installation.


Yesterday I worked in a bungalow that has three final circuits at the consumer unit supplying the whole domestic bungalow.


1. Lighting.


2. Sockets.


3. Shower.


The lighting circuit supplied the whole building.


The sockets were supplied by a B32 M.C.B. and comprised two ring finals circuits bunched together. (Which I later separated).


The shower might have been the old cooker circuit as the bungalow had no cooker circuit. It had a gas cooker.


So who can beat that?


Z.
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    Johno12345:

    My house had a 15a radial for sockets, and a 5a for lights.


    built in 1958




    If you upgrade the consumer unit to one with a 2-mod DP main switch, a 2-mod DP surge protection device and two 2-mod combined RCBO AFD devices you will still need a 8-mod CU that is considerably bigger than what is there now.


    Andy  

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    its got four now, a main board and three submains. not sure how many ways, 18 each or something like that. 


    got a free service upgrade, from double pole 30a rewirable, to 100a (def 100, i checked) when the head melted.
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    So Johno is claiming 2 and Broadgage is claiming 1. Do we agree. Do we have winners?


    Z.
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    I did a installation certificate and a EICR as requested by an insurance company when I stripped out an installation apart from the tails, consumer unit, main earth conductor and rod, then installed one double socket.


    So is anyone going lower than one circuit with one fitting?


    Andy
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    I'm going to cheat a bit and go for a construction site installation with one double socket which supplied the house via a couple of extension leads (in series). ?
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    The smallest fuse box I have seen in a house / flat is a 2 way metal mem board. With 2 fuses 1 - 15a and 1 -5a


    1 light and 1 - single socket per room including the kitchen 


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    pretty much like mine, except the light switches werent in the individual rooms, they were all together in a big plate in the hall


    it did have a 30a upgrade on the 15a radial though ?

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