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New fridge position with no sockets
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<blockquote data-quote="SPECIAL LOCATION" data-source="post: 515554" data-attributes="member: 250"><p>A common mistake often made on DIY projects is just confirming that a socket is supplied from a circuit labelled as Ring at the consumer unit..</p><p></p><p>But forgetting to check that the ring is fully intact. and that the place you are intending to extend from is not already a spur off a spur, off a ring.</p><p></p><p>A broken ring can still have power to sockets, but insufficient capacity down the cables to carry the full electrical load.</p><p></p><p>So you do need to check that the ring is intact before spurring off any socket that is part of that ring.</p><p></p><p>i.e. at the point you are intending to branch from there must be:-</p><p></p><p>2x 'Live' conductors, that have a measured continuity between them.</p><p></p><p>2x 'Neutral' conductors, with a measured continuity, (near identical to the reading between the Live's), between them.</p><p></p><p>and 2x 'Earth' conductors, with a measured continuity between them.</p><p></p><p>If there is no continuity between each of the three pairs of conductors, then either it isn't a ring, or its already spurred off a ring, or the ring is broken.</p><p></p><p>In which case you need to figure out an alternative solution.</p><p></p><p> Guinness </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SPECIAL LOCATION, post: 515554, member: 250"] A common mistake often made on DIY projects is just confirming that a socket is supplied from a circuit labelled as Ring at the consumer unit.. But forgetting to check that the ring is fully intact. and that the place you are intending to extend from is not already a spur off a spur, off a ring. A broken ring can still have power to sockets, but insufficient capacity down the cables to carry the full electrical load. So you do need to check that the ring is intact before spurring off any socket that is part of that ring. i.e. at the point you are intending to branch from there must be:- 2x 'Live' conductors, that have a measured continuity between them. 2x 'Neutral' conductors, with a measured continuity, (near identical to the reading between the Live's), between them. and 2x 'Earth' conductors, with a measured continuity between them. If there is no continuity between each of the three pairs of conductors, then either it isn't a ring, or its already spurred off a ring, or the ring is broken. In which case you need to figure out an alternative solution. Guinness [/QUOTE]
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