A friend has moved house and is going to install 3 outside lights to his wall. He wannts to use an old SWA cable now coiled up that supplied a pond pump. The supply to the pump via the SWA is so, hole drilled through lounge wall and SWA pushed through into lounge and travels along carpet and then glanded off into metal box screwed to lounge wall. Then a piece of flex exits metal box and is plugged into nearest socket with a 13A plug top for the pump supply . I dont know the rating of the old pump and from an aesthetic point of view it looked awful but is there any thing inherently wrong with this ?
Is this acceptable ?
Apr 28, 2004
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Where's the mandatory RCD protection in this setup?
On 28 Apr 2004 21:46:33 GMT, in uk.d-i-y snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Wheelbarrowbob) strung together this:
Technically, as it's on a plug top it isn't covered by any regulations. The SWA will be minimum 1.5mm so a 5A fuse in the plug and all will be fine.
On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:47:26 +0100, in uk.d-i-y "BillV" strung together this:
What mandatory RCD protection? It's powering lights.
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