And some absolute limits too...
And some absolute limits too...
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com a écrit :
Likely/ hopefully they may have used a fused switch for the lighting?
snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com a écrit :
They would be, if all the cable feeding lighting circuit were rated for
13amp and the light itself suitable fused.Andy Wade a écrit :
I found 3/0.029 to be much more common than 1/0.044. The later size was never installed by the company I worked for, the reason being it was much more fragile.
Dave Plowman (News) a écrit :
I thought that period was around late 60's early 70's. Horrible stuff, forced upon us by the copper shortages/ price, along with a whole new section in the regs.
ARW a écrit :
White outer covering of PVC, was much beloved by the YEB of that era.
Dave Plowman (News) a écrit :
There was, but only usually where flourescent fittings were installed.
Where a normal light was swapped to flourescent, they would run a separate earth wire - if you were lucky. Many were just installed without an earth, by bodgers.
No requirement to fuse individual lights on a lighting circuit, regardless of the main fuse or MCB etc rating.
The MCB etc is merely to protect the actual wiring - not any fitting. And even 1mm TW&E will blow a 13 amp fuse in event of a fault, before becoming a fire risk.
But in this case only the srapper for the landing light was in white. The rest was in grey.
I just stripped some tinned copper off the side of my house. That's not copper coloured...
(It was an old mains feed, which no-one had bothered to remove even though it wasn't used any more)
Andy
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