Question - electrical sanity check

Voltage drop permitting, no problem. 1.5 mm^2 T&E is good f0r 20A in its "clipped direct" installation, so a 16 or 20A MCB would be fine[1]

Might be slightly more elegant to take the lights from the circuit at the destination via a 5A FCU, but not strictly necessary unless the lamp fittings you use have a particular protection requirement.

Waste not want not :-)

B****r. I took half a roll to the tip last year under the impression I wasn't allowed to use it any more.

Andy

Since our house has a mix of old and new colours I hardly think anyone is going to notice me using some old coloured cable on 'new' wiring.

If you use your existing supply of red/black for any modification you just say that the work was carried out prior to 2000 :)

If it were a pro job for someone else, then you would not use it. However on your own place, going into an install that presumably has mixed colours anyway, who is going to care?

(I thought I had used all my old colour stuff long before it was even phased out, although I did find a nearly full reel of 3&E last time we moved. I still find occasional use for that)

Does it still sell for inflated prices on ebay?

Owain

Either peel-off the manufactured date stickers from all wiring accessories, or "remember" an alibi for why you needed to replace them all after the wiring was installed ready for when the Part P police come knocking :-)

I understood that if you put the appropriate sleeving on the ends, there wasn't a problem. - not that I have any left.

Yes, I have some 'old' 3&E still, it's much prettier than the new colours isnt it! :-)

Not for installations starting after 31/3/2006. But (rephrasing John Rumm's point) it'd be a /really/ odd DIY-er who used cable with the old colours and then shopped themselves.

impression I

Probably better than weighing in?

Apparently, yes

I would have bought it off you as I wanted to make some modifications without being too obvious.

Along with other collectors' items such as 7 amp fuses :-)

Really?

I know someone who has loads of T&E, 1.0mm2, 1.5mm2, 2.5mm2 and 4.0mm2 and possibly some 3+E too :-)

Think the postage costs would be a killer though....

S.

I know someone who has loads of 7A fuses along with 1A , 2A and 10A fuses.....

Postage should be trivial!

S.

On reflection, I decided that the wiring inside the luminaires (reclaimed fluorescent light fittings) was the limiting factor so I've used a (reclaimed) switched fused spur as the light switch. All is now done. It's a Legrand CU but I only had an MK B16 MCB which, of course, has a different terminal height to the Legrand MCBs - easily fixed with a tweak to the copper busbar but I wish all MCB makes had the same physical dimensions.

Thanks, but the job is completed now.

Even if your house is still wired in it?

I'd not use it on anyone else's house, though, for new. But would for a repair.