Advice on some electrical wiring.....

[DanoS4]

CAVEAT - PART P and safety will be observed, but my curiosity is getting the better of me and I want to *KNOW* how to do it. A professional will actually do it.

There. Got that out of the way.

Got a question about about switched fused spurs.
Say I've got an existing ring main and I want to add a switched spur to the ring. From this spur I can then feed one more socket. I'm struggling to get my head around the maintaining of the ring. My brain seems to think that by putting the spur in line with the ring wiring, I'll just be adding a switch to break the circuit. Not what is required
Here's a current demo -



The reason is so that the switched spur can be on "view" above a counter, but the socket under the counter can be utilised for a washing machine .

Anybody care to point me to a link that shows me the wiring from the rear of the spur's perspective? I've got a drawn circuit diagram, but it's the putting into practice that seems to be getting away from me.

I must stress that this is for my curiosity only as we've got contractors in doing our kitchen, but not at the weekend, and I've got time to kill trying to understand it before I watch the rugby!

Thanks in advance,

DAn

[Smiler.]

There will be terminals marked "Supply" & "Load" on the fused connection unit.

The ring is wired into the supply terminals (2 cables per terminal) & the wiring to the load is a single core per terminal.

The socket fed via the fused conn unit will be protected by a 13A (max) fuse so be careful what load is connected (if more than one appliance).

[jason61c]

you could do that yourself.

[megaphone]

I would use a double pole 20A isolation switch above the counter and use a single 13a socket below, to plug the washing machine into.

[hairyben]

The switch is not breaking the ring, it's breaking the supply to the socket.

[paulrockliffe]

hairyben said:

The switch is not breaking the ring, it's breaking the supply to the socket.

Not only that, if you wired the ring across the switch both sides of the switch would be live and there'd be no point having the switch! All the switch would do is switch between having one ring circuit and two whatever circuits.

[DanoS4]

Thanks guys.

Clarity has been restored

Makes perfect sense.