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<blockquote data-quote="phil d" data-source="post: 479907" data-attributes="member: 27126"><p>I remember putting my shed up, only a couple of lights and sockets, and it's only a short distance from the house, it still ended up with a 10mm swa from the main board. Likewise I wired a garage for a bloke, his house had been the show house for the estate, there was a 2.5 swa feeding the garage, did my calcs and over the distance it was good for 16A, guy said it was fine, threw a few sockets in and a couple of lights, "the sockets are only for a radio and a power drill" he assured me. The next thing was he rings up, "I've decided to turn my garage into a mini gym, a couple of electric keep fit machines and a tv, total load is about 5 amps, how many heaters can I run?" at this point I lost the plot, "just plug in whatever you want, when the breaker trips, you've reached your limit". I'm sick of people who think they can power a full estate on a piece of wet string! </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phil d, post: 479907, member: 27126"] I remember putting my shed up, only a couple of lights and sockets, and it's only a short distance from the house, it still ended up with a 10mm swa from the main board. Likewise I wired a garage for a bloke, his house had been the show house for the estate, there was a 2.5 swa feeding the garage, did my calcs and over the distance it was good for 16A, guy said it was fine, threw a few sockets in and a couple of lights, "the sockets are only for a radio and a power drill" he assured me. The next thing was he rings up, "I've decided to turn my garage into a mini gym, a couple of electric keep fit machines and a tv, total load is about 5 amps, how many heaters can I run?" at this point I lost the plot, "just plug in whatever you want, when the breaker trips, you've reached your limit". I'm sick of people who think they can power a full estate on a piece of wet string! [/QUOTE]
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