triple sockets from a spur? Legal / advisable / safe?

Dec 27, 2003 4 Replies

sorry - another question - new house and a week off



I've seen triple sockets down the local DIY place and was contemplating swapping out some the the older single and double sockets with them. Unfortunately a most of the old wallpoints in the house are run as spurs from the existing ring main upstairs. Assuming I don't do silly stuff like connect up two fanheaters ande a microwave to one, are they a: okay / safe, and b: following whatever current electrical safety regs that exist?



Even if you all diss them on spurs, I'm assuming that if I use them as the standard on the new ringmain I'm putting in (one set of 3 in each of 4 rooms - shourt run of 8 m) the nthat at least is okay.


Robert


Havn't looked at one of these recently, but last time I saw one it had a built in 13A fuse, so no different from plugging a 3 way extension into a single socket

For the new ring, why not just add more twin sockets? First, they are cheaper and secondly, they look much more acceptable.

Rob

All 3+ sockets are actually fused with a 13A fuse. So it comes down to what you intend to plug in.

They are safer to install than twin sockets, because of the internal fuse limits current to 13A. A twin socket is fuse limited to 26A, although I believe you are allowed to apply diversity to bring it down to 20A.

Christian.

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