I have had good info from you last year, Thanks!,
....I now know that I need at least 25mm armoured three core for my new workshop, but, I now might want to increase the length from 40 to 50 meter, what will I lose in voltage drop? If it is to much I will fix to tempory unit then permenant when worshop is finished. I need to keep supply as I use it everyday and wife has a freezer running off of it. My old workshop is an old double garage with a fuse wire unit in it, everything is run off a 40 meter long 6mm twin and earth and apart from welders and chop saws I dont have many problems, even the welder can run in low amp setting but is just to low for a lot of jobs I need to do. I trip the house unit regularly when using the big stuff, If I put an extra ten meters of cable on I can run to the new part of my worshop and wire into a new unit with a temp supply to old workshop untill it is pulled down this summer, I think I have enough of a load so I havent wired up my new workshop yet to the old supply, the conection will be made into the 10mm supply in my house by a qualified chap I know.
The other thing is the cost of extra 10 meter of cable making it 50 mtr, whare would your chaps buy top quality cable from, and is there brands of cable to avoid? or that you can recomend.
.......once again thanks from Dave.
....I now know that I need at least 25mm armoured three core for my new workshop, but, I now might want to increase the length from 40 to 50 meter, what will I lose in voltage drop? If it is to much I will fix to tempory unit then permenant when worshop is finished. I need to keep supply as I use it everyday and wife has a freezer running off of it. My old workshop is an old double garage with a fuse wire unit in it, everything is run off a 40 meter long 6mm twin and earth and apart from welders and chop saws I dont have many problems, even the welder can run in low amp setting but is just to low for a lot of jobs I need to do. I trip the house unit regularly when using the big stuff, If I put an extra ten meters of cable on I can run to the new part of my worshop and wire into a new unit with a temp supply to old workshop untill it is pulled down this summer, I think I have enough of a load so I havent wired up my new workshop yet to the old supply, the conection will be made into the 10mm supply in my house by a qualified chap I know.
The other thing is the cost of extra 10 meter of cable making it 50 mtr, whare would your chaps buy top quality cable from, and is there brands of cable to avoid? or that you can recomend.
.......once again thanks from Dave.
hms 
