Why would an electrician install a 10 mm twin and earth circuit protected by a B32 MCB for a 8.5 kW shower?
Why would an electrician install a 10 mm twin and earth circuit protected by a B32 MCB for a 8.5 kW shower?
davezawadi (David Stone):
Why worry, it is not dangerous, and the breaker will almost certainly never trip.
Well … I really don't know what to say about this.
The issue being, that OCPDs heat up. We simply don't have enough information to determine whether it's dangerous … if the mcb's either side of the shower breaker are often well loaded up to a good percentage of their capacity whilst the shower is running the shower breaker ABOVE it's capacity, we really don't know what will happen (except we do, because we've all seen overheating occuring at the CU for various reasons)!
davezawadi (David Stone):
Why worry, it is not dangerous, and the breaker will almost certainly never trip.
Well … I really don't know what to say about this.
The issue being, that OCPDs heat up. We simply don't have enough information to determine whether it's dangerous … if the mcb's either side of the shower breaker are often well loaded up to a good percentage of their capacity whilst the shower is running the shower breaker ABOVE it's capacity, we really don't know what will happen (except we do, because we've all seen overheating occuring at the CU for various reasons)!
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