Or can someone definitively tell me what cable I can use?! Save Photo. My house was built in 1982 and my consumer unit looks similar ( if not earlier ) than yours !. Garage is to be supplied from a spur from the ground floor ring … Consumer unit I found on ebay is very cheap compare to the shop version. What is the size of the cable supplying your garage and from where does it derive its supply? 80% positive Consumer Unit Installation – Consumer Units Explained. feedback. 100% positive Nottingham • Member since 7 Jan 2014 • Is it recommended that I dig the trench, then get a tradesman to do the wiring (including dumping the cable in the hole) and then fill it in and landscape it later? Is it supplied from your existing consumer unit within your home and if so what size in amps is the mcb to which it is connected. ????? 100% positive feedback. 14 This RCD (or RCBO) will need to be located at the cables origin (i.e. 100% positive 693 The cable run from the consumer unit to the garage is probably about 15-20metes. A competent electrician can take in a lot within minutes of being on site. 3 5 When installing SWA steel wired armoured cable it best to use 3 core - 1.Phase / Live, 2.neutral, 3.CPC Earth. 9 05272398. I would fit a Wylex or MK board personally - these are worth the extra pennies and you know that if certain breakers were to become faulty in future you an get replacement parts. The outer steel wire should also be connected to earth via the glands fitted at each end. This is the work around, all done by a professional electrical company. Print Comment Like Embed. A circuit only requires to be covered by one 30m/a RCD which is already in the main consumer unit (if it isn't, then that needs doing first), so only a main switch is needed in the garage unit. Cookies feedback. 2.5mm swa 3 core is the minimum size cable you can bury direct in the ground and carries 28 Amps at its max. 5 feedback. If I did want a RING circuit in the Garage would I just connect the cable in a RING to/from the 15Amp MCB in the garage. From garage to house is a 6mm armoured cable, both ends go into metal boxes with a … At the garage end I plan to install a metal consumer unit with a 30ma RCD covering all ways with its own earth spike and terminate the SWA in the consumer unit. The question: Can one of you experienced electricians tell me what size and type of SWA I need? It had NO spare's to hook in the new Rolec. Here is a picture gallery about shed consumer unit wiring diagram complete with the description of the image, please find the image you need. 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