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Posted by Brian Gibson, on
Can I take a outdoor double socket with a 15 mt. run off my ring main
Cornelius Cretu

Cornelius Cretu

Hi Brian, Yes you can, but because the run is quite long and you want to spur that socket off a ring it would be a good idea to use a 4mm2 cable or run x2, 2.5mm2 cables and put that outside socket in the ring. The best alternative would be to have that socket on a separate circuit on its own circuit breaker in the fuse board. The outside socket has to be RCD protected and has to be waterproof (IP68). Regards, Cornelius Cretu

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