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by sean29
Sun Oct 11, 2009 8:58 am
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Two ring circuits combined onto a single MCB
Replies: 7
Views: 6864

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Need to get an electrician in.
Thanks for you responses.
by sean29
Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:11 pm
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Two ring circuits combined onto a single MCB
Replies: 7
Views: 6864

Hi KB, How has your electrician extended the ring as there are four legs? > Yes, well it has 4 phase wires into the single MCB. Turn that MCB off and it turns off all downstairs sockets. To me that means there are two circuits, you can't do this by accident he's test would show it up and only a fool...
by sean29
Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:50 pm
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Two ring circuits combined onto a single MCB
Replies: 7
Views: 6864

Thanks for the responses. I was giving this more thought and I suspect what the electrician did was to accidentally connect the dinning room ring to the kitchen ring when he was extending the circuits for the new extension and probably the only way to pass the electrical test was to connect the ring...
by sean29
Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:07 pm
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Two ring circuits combined onto a single MCB
Replies: 7
Views: 6864

Two ring circuits combined onto a single MCB

Hi, I had an extension built approximately 2 years which had new sockets and lights installed by an electrician. Before the extension was built I had downstairs 2 ring circuits. One for the hall, lounge and dining room and other for the kitchen. I recently noticed that all downstairs circuits are no...
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