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<blockquote data-quote="AAAMUSEMENTS" data-source="post: 155185" data-attributes="member: 5001"><p>Fair points, but;</p><p></p><p>The workshop is already all fitted out with sockets, striplights etc. all SWA back to the CU in there, and it's all been done very nicely with a few notable exceptions that I can easily remedy.</p><p></p><p>The existing cable that already comes from it is 4x6, and the cable that I have to do the new run is 4x6.</p><p></p><p>I haven't done any calculations, but in the workshop is a compressor, welders, pillar drills, various 110 trannies, all the usual power tools and a very heavy duty planer that is evidently a fuse blower as the previous owner had terminated the cable into a JB from which ran 2 (yes really) 13 amp plugs (a nice death trap for the unwary!).</p><p></p><p>Anyway I reckon 60amp at the supply end to be "sufficient". If I had wanted a quick fix I could have run a 2.5 x 3 core from the detached garage, which is 16 amp max, and had endless fun and exercise walking back to reset the breaker!</p><p></p><p>The point I am trying to make is that I want to do a safe job, but not an expensive, complicated and time consuming one. It just doesn't warrant it.</p><p></p><p>Will now don tin hat, and retire to bunker...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AAAMUSEMENTS, post: 155185, member: 5001"] Fair points, but; The workshop is already all fitted out with sockets, striplights etc. all SWA back to the CU in there, and it's all been done very nicely with a few notable exceptions that I can easily remedy. The existing cable that already comes from it is 4x6, and the cable that I have to do the new run is 4x6. I haven't done any calculations, but in the workshop is a compressor, welders, pillar drills, various 110 trannies, all the usual power tools and a very heavy duty planer that is evidently a fuse blower as the previous owner had terminated the cable into a JB from which ran 2 (yes really) 13 amp plugs (a nice death trap for the unwary!). Anyway I reckon 60amp at the supply end to be "sufficient". If I had wanted a quick fix I could have run a 2.5 x 3 core from the detached garage, which is 16 amp max, and had endless fun and exercise walking back to reset the breaker! The point I am trying to make is that I want to do a safe job, but not an expensive, complicated and time consuming one. It just doesn't warrant it. Will now don tin hat, and retire to bunker... [/QUOTE]
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