Shower electrical cable

Aug 13, 2003 1 Replies

Hi,



I'm about to swap out the old bathroom suite and replace it all including the rather nasty shower.



The shower is I believe an 8.5KW affair and the power supply appears to be fairly modern (approx 2yrs old ) cable on a 45A breaker.



But, I can't tell what the size of the cable ie. 10mm^2, so I'm not sure if we can have a more powerful shower without risk of overloading the cable. I read somewhere that by measuring the outside diameter of the cable you could determine the size of the conductors in the cable, anyone know of these figures?



Cheers,



Jeff


go to local wholesaler ask him for 3" of 10 mm sq go home and compare

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