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4mm2 twin and earth cable

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regarding 4mm2 cable was it ever available in the old colours with solid conductors rather than the 7 strands version? Ive just done a pre - inspection of a property before doing an EICR and found 2 radial circuits fed from 32A MCBS. The cables appear to be  larger than 2,5mm2 . I'm going back to inspect this property with a view to reducing the MCB's to 20A if if they are 2.5mm2. I'm also taking  a Vernier  gauge to measure the cable diameters and compare to reference tables.

The installation is approximately 30 years old but is in very good condition.
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  • The accuracy of a tenths mic is very unlikely to be a "tenth" ebee, however good the operator. The electronic one above probably has an adjustment look-up table it uses to allow for calibration to get the accuracy to spec. Remember any wear or inaccuracy anywhere in the system makes the accuracy less, hopefully, the calibration lab gets it back to spec, mechanical mics go in the bin, although they are relatively cheap. The thread usually wears out first, this wrecks the linearity, errors are different on various parts of the range. My CNC lathe had electronic correction of the co-ordinate control system, the computer added or subtracted an error from the DRO scales to correct any errors, calibrating the whole lot took hours with Grade 1 slip gauges to 4 feet or so, each of the gauges had a correction of some amount of a few microns to add or subtract too, which had to be fed in manually. The lathe did superbly accurate work though so probably worth the effort (and cost!).
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  • The accuracy of a tenths mic is very unlikely to be a "tenth" ebee, however good the operator. The electronic one above probably has an adjustment look-up table it uses to allow for calibration to get the accuracy to spec. Remember any wear or inaccuracy anywhere in the system makes the accuracy less, hopefully, the calibration lab gets it back to spec, mechanical mics go in the bin, although they are relatively cheap. The thread usually wears out first, this wrecks the linearity, errors are different on various parts of the range. My CNC lathe had electronic correction of the co-ordinate control system, the computer added or subtracted an error from the DRO scales to correct any errors, calibrating the whole lot took hours with Grade 1 slip gauges to 4 feet or so, each of the gauges had a correction of some amount of a few microns to add or subtract too, which had to be fed in manually. The lathe did superbly accurate work though so probably worth the effort (and cost!).
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