Peter,

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:10:21 -0000, peter green wrote:

> > Which aisle of B&Q are they in?  :-)

> they aren't but neither are sizes of SWA that give you decent volt drop figures for even a small supply down a large garden.

Well I wasn't being that serious!  :-)  Although 2.5mm^2 is OK of you're just running a shed with a light and one power tool a few metres from the 
house.

Any use of SWA must be better than the lashup that was in place when I bought the house - ordinary 2.5mm^2 T&E strung along the garden wall to 
the garage about 50m from the house.  It plugged in in the kitchen, and one day I plugged it in via an RDC adaptor, which tripped instantly.  I 
measured what was happening - about 1.8A was "leaking" somewhere!  At that point I cut and uninstalled the cable...

> > I think Jinx would balk at spending several times more on tools 
> > than on the materials to do the job - all of the above rather 
> > demand that, sadly.
> that applies to MICC and steel conduit but not to split-con. split-con is unfortunately a little tricky to get though.

I have to say I've never seen split-concentric cable in the flesh, and I have no idea how you terminate it.  Are there special terminal boxes, or glands, 
or what?

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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