One for the sparkies

ColinHackett

Help!! i'm getting confused with fused spurs.

Basicly i have a doube socket that is going to be behind a built in dressing table i am builing for the Mrs. (i will leave some room so that i can get to the plugs if needed.)

She wants to have her hair drier plugged in to one socket and hair straigteners plugged in to the other.

I was hopping to have the same sort of set up that you find in kitchens with the cooker, where as she can have a couple of switches (like a double light switch) above the dresser so she can switch either applience / socket on/off meaning they can be left plugged in without the worry that she has forgotten to turn them off.

What / how do i go about this?

i'm thinking... unwire the double socket and wire in a double pole switch (above the table) with a spur running down to a single socket. (where the double was) carry on the ring to a second double pole switch and run a second spur and socket, the ring would then carry on as normal.

Does this make sense?

Can you get twin double pole switches so i can run both spurs from the same box (like a double light switch) but on the seperate switches?

Thanks.
Colin.

muckybutt

You could do it a number of different ways, either spurring off the ring or keeping the isolator on the ring and spurring the sockets off.

You cant - (to my knowledge) buy a two gang double pole switch, what you would need is a grid system type affair, MK grid series do 20A double pole switches you mount in a frame.