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16A on Ring

RustyH
Evening all,


I have a client who is looking for their swimming pool heat pump to be wired up. Manual requests for a 16A connection (although client has been running off a 13a plug!!).

The layout of the house and garden restricts the direct connection to the CU to being long and messy. 


The most direct route is to the lower socket ring. Im sure I remember reading on the old forum that a 16a RCD can be classed as a FCU. 

I can not seem to find reference to this in the regs though, is it stated in there?


If it is acceptable I could spur off this lower ring, in to a weatherproof CU with a double pole 16A RCD, then run SWA up the garden to the heat pump. 


Cheers

Rusty

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    I should have added that in my last post. From what I have looked at the ring feeds a lounge area, and two sockets near the CU. Lounge area has 7 Double sockets. Not much plugged in to them, TV and entertainment consoles, Lamps, etc. One feeds a pond, I took a note of as much equipment running the pond and work it out to roughly 700w. The two sockets near the drop down to the CU are just powering a wifi modem and charging one of those fancy robot vac thingys. So current occupied is probably around 1.2kw. Rooms are centrally heated and they have a log fire so I do foresee the use of filiment heaters ect (Client said they do not heat the pool during the winter months so that load would be off anyway)


    I wasnt aware of spurs cooking with lack of ventilation, will note that.

    Maybe I could spur through to a IP66 FCU on the outside wall, and run the SWA from there?




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    I should have added that in my last post. From what I have looked at the ring feeds a lounge area, and two sockets near the CU. Lounge area has 7 Double sockets. Not much plugged in to them, TV and entertainment consoles, Lamps, etc. One feeds a pond, I took a note of as much equipment running the pond and work it out to roughly 700w. The two sockets near the drop down to the CU are just powering a wifi modem and charging one of those fancy robot vac thingys. So current occupied is probably around 1.2kw. Rooms are centrally heated and they have a log fire so I do foresee the use of filiment heaters ect (Client said they do not heat the pool during the winter months so that load would be off anyway)


    I wasnt aware of spurs cooking with lack of ventilation, will note that.

    Maybe I could spur through to a IP66 FCU on the outside wall, and run the SWA from there?




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