03-Oct-2016, 12:13
I had my electrician install a dedicated consumer unit (MK) connected directly to the Henley block (junction box that splits tails from the meter). This feeds 8 circuits, of which 3 are NEMA Furutech GTX-D sockets and the others are unswitched bog standard MK double sockets.
Cable used is 6mm T&E.
Before doing this I did a huge amount of research and spoke to lots of different people, dealers, distributors etc. I did consider expensive shielded cable at one point and came close to ordering it but in the end was talked out of it by someone with lots of experience... I don't remember all the details now but in the end going for T&E did lower the overall budget by a fair chunk.
Getting my electrician to sign everything off was fun. In the end I had to compromise with 10A circuits with RCBO (type B) for the US sockets since US power cords are unfused. The other 5 circuits are rated to 20A and have regular RCD breakers..
What I had never realised until I got into all this was that the fuse in a power cable is there to protect the cable and not the appliance and is based on the premise that power cords will often be connected to a ring mains with 32A or higher current capability.
My Devialets are connected to separate circuits.
One of the biggest and best bang for buck upgrades one can do.
Guillaume
Cable used is 6mm T&E.
Before doing this I did a huge amount of research and spoke to lots of different people, dealers, distributors etc. I did consider expensive shielded cable at one point and came close to ordering it but in the end was talked out of it by someone with lots of experience... I don't remember all the details now but in the end going for T&E did lower the overall budget by a fair chunk.
Getting my electrician to sign everything off was fun. In the end I had to compromise with 10A circuits with RCBO (type B) for the US sockets since US power cords are unfused. The other 5 circuits are rated to 20A and have regular RCD breakers..
What I had never realised until I got into all this was that the fuse in a power cable is there to protect the cable and not the appliance and is based on the premise that power cords will often be connected to a ring mains with 32A or higher current capability.
My Devialets are connected to separate circuits.
One of the biggest and best bang for buck upgrades one can do.
Guillaume
Industry disclosure: UK distributor for Shunyata Research
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