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Electricians Advice Please
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Should he not have put all lights and boiler on the same circuit?
No as you have already been told on your other thread, the boiler must be on the ring main NOT the lighting circuitI'm only here while I wait for Corrie to start.
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southcoastrgi wrote: »No as you have already been told on your other thread, the boiler must be on the ring main NOT the lighting circuit
No it must not....boiler should be on its own circuit to comply with 17th edition regs.
Whats happening here is.......lights are on 6amp breaker? Boiler wants 3amps and with a few lights on you go over the 6amps so the mcb trpis.
best to do...
Isolated circuit
Test for dead
Take cable out of fcu
Put a plug on the end
Use it for a few days to see if tripping stops
If it does then you need a new circuit in for the boiler
If not then something more sinister is wrong...ie faulty cable...loose wire etc..
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Get the boiler power supply properly sorted first by a competent sparky (not the one who changed your CU). Then monitor the boiler.No free lunch, and no free laptop
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sparkieguy wrote: »No it must not....boiler should be on its own circuit to comply with 17th edition regs.
If it does then you need a new circuit in for the boiler
If you are going to tell me I'm wrong at least get it right
For starters the 17th isn't retrospective so unless a new circuit was installed when the boiler was changed then it is perfectly acceptable for the new boiler to be connected to the ring main with a switched fused spur @ 3a
What you are ref to is a water heater over 15 ltrs & because it's draw is likely to be over 2 kW then this would req its own circuit, however because of it's relative low power draw a gas boiler doesn't fall into this categoryI'm only here while I wait for Corrie to start.
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It's fine for a boiler to be on the lighting circuit. I wouldn't do it, but it's not wrong, just not best practice.0
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You said.....boiler must be on ring! This is miss leading...
Agree regs are not retrospective but bad practice to put a boiler on another circuit.. but thats my veiw
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