Wiring A Socket Ring Circuit

A socket outlet is the familiar item mounted on the wall into which a plug can be inserted.

Wiring a socket ring circuit. Both brown wires connect to the live or l terminal. The final socket outlet can be identified easily as it will only have one cable connected to it. As you can see the circuit starts and ends at the consumer unit. A few manufacturers.

The other type of circuit used to power your home is a radial circuit. Faults on radial circuits are easy to locate. You can put a lighting circuit onto a socket but only if you downrate it using a spur with a 3 amp fuse. Wiring is the same as for the radial circuit.

Ring circuits are commonly used in british wiring with socket outlets taking fused plugs to bs 1363 because the breaker rating is much higher than that of any. A radial circuit must follow these rules in general. It is available in single and double types. If there is a break anywhere along the cable all of the socket outlets after the break will no longer work.

The way it should be done is switched fused spur off of the socket in house swa run from this to shed connect the swa to socket s in shed and then on to another switched fused spur with 3a fuse for the lights. The ring is fed from a fuse or circuit breaker in the consumer unit. The ring starts at the consumer unit also known as fuse box distribution board or breaker box visits each socket in turn and then returns to the consumer unit. I m surprised that a qualified electrician has chosen to wire a lighting circuit like that.

All of the socket outlets will have two cables. Please observe the wiring diagram above. Ring final circuits radial circuit with branches adding a spur to a ring final circuit extending a ring circuit using a junction box extending an existing ring final circuit. Instead of connecting these to the main downstairs lighting ring he s popped a plug on the end of it and plugged it in to one of the.

As described previously a ring circuit starts at the consumer unit connects to each socket outlet in turn and then returns to the consumer unit. They are not so common in the uk but are used extensively abroad as the ring main or final ring circuit does have it s drawbacks.