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Protecting a sub circuit

John Boy

Hi All,

I have inherited a house with an annexe in the garden.

the annexe has a 63amp RCCB in a 6 way board with a B20 three B16 and one B6 and one spare.

the annexe is supplied by a 3 core SWA 6mm cable that runs about 40 meters. The cable runs surface mounted externally back to the meter which is external in a coveted alleyway. This cable goes back to a fused consumer unit and then via Henley blocks to the 100a meter.

I have added up all the appliances etc in the annexe and the total max wattage comes to about 10kw.

the cable size seems a bit small but changing it would not be easy. So my question is how do I protect the cable in this situation?

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    My buddy, an electrical contractor, built his own house. 3500sq feet, raised 4 children. A temporary supply was brought in from the old farmhouse about 50m away when the family moved in. The intake was a neat arrangement with two 24 way consumer units all supplied by a 2.5mm2 twin with earth cable run from the farmhouse up a ditch and into 30A open choc-bloc connectors before dividing into each consumer unit. I guess that was the situation for about 15 years before the DNO cable was connected. By that time the kids were grown and almost ready to fly the nest!

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    My buddy, an electrical contractor, built his own house. 3500sq feet, raised 4 children. A temporary supply was brought in from the old farmhouse about 50m away when the family moved in. The intake was a neat arrangement with two 24 way consumer units all supplied by a 2.5mm2 twin with earth cable run from the farmhouse up a ditch and into 30A open choc-bloc connectors before dividing into each consumer unit. I guess that was the situation for about 15 years before the DNO cable was connected. By that time the kids were grown and almost ready to fly the nest!

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