23 Nov
2014
23 Nov
'14
1:38 p.m.
OK. But equally if you have multiple outlets on a
circuit (presumably often in
the same room), you can't draw more than 10A total. Some of my classic
computers would not like that!
Yes, but this is your problem than.
This wiring is to be meant for an average living room, not for an computer
room with big computers.
If you ant to do this, simply install 3 phase CEE Outlets. Thats eaxcatly how this is designed. The minimal Gauge
for 230V wires is
0,5mm^2.
Which to me is a 3A cable and I'd protect it with a 3A cartridge fuse in the plug :-)
I believe the is a country (probably one that was under British rule at one time) that
uses BS1363
sockets (our 13A ones with) unfused plugs on a 15A radial circuit. No real problem, the
socket will
carry 15A if properly made, but if the plugs/cables end up in the UK, they can be
dangerous for the
obvious reason.
I also dislike -- a lot - the unfused wall wart PSUs/chargers we get in the UK. They plug
directly into the
13A socket outlet, and thus the only protective devices is the 32A (or 30A) breaker/fuse
in the consumer
unit. I normally run them from a fused multi-socket block on my bench, at least then there
is some smaller
fuse im the circuit.
Mind you the
old wiring regulations, at least in the UK, make horrifying reading. At
one time it was required to put a fuse in both the live and neutral wires (and if the
latter failed the whole circuit was live). Now of course you put a fuse in the live only.
:-O