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<blockquote data-quote="donttalktosh" data-source="post: 561648" data-attributes="member: 38539"><p>Hi,</p><p>I am an elderly gentleman so please be gentle with me.</p><p></p><p>I recently bought and built a large plastic shed and thought it would be nice to turn it into a man cave/sanctuary.</p><p>I have dabbled with electrics all my working life as an engineer and have been electrician's mate on many occasions.</p><p>So, prior to getting it professionally checked I thought I would do the donkey work and have a go making a start.</p><p></p><p>I started by taking a spur off my home ring main through the wall (2.5 t&e) to water proof fused switch.</p><p>From this I routed 2.5 s w a cable into a small consumer unit in the shed.</p><p>This unit has 2 mcbs (1x6amp and 1x16amp).</p><p>The rcd is rated at 40amps.</p><p>To this I wired 3 plastic double sockets (radial) with 2.5 twin and earth.</p><p>When using a socket tester it says all is correct.</p><p>When I plug in any thing like a drill or heater the trip goes out immediately.</p><p></p><p>I just wondered anyone could save my embarrassment before official test <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="🤔" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donttalktosh, post: 561648, member: 38539"] Hi, I am an elderly gentleman so please be gentle with me. I recently bought and built a large plastic shed and thought it would be nice to turn it into a man cave/sanctuary. I have dabbled with electrics all my working life as an engineer and have been electrician's mate on many occasions. So, prior to getting it professionally checked I thought I would do the donkey work and have a go making a start. I started by taking a spur off my home ring main through the wall (2.5 t&e) to water proof fused switch. From this I routed 2.5 s w a cable into a small consumer unit in the shed. This unit has 2 mcbs (1x6amp and 1x16amp). The rcd is rated at 40amps. To this I wired 3 plastic double sockets (radial) with 2.5 twin and earth. When using a socket tester it says all is correct. When I plug in any thing like a drill or heater the trip goes out immediately. I just wondered anyone could save my embarrassment before official test 🤔 [/QUOTE]
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