What weight of cable?

The Agrarian

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Northern Ireland
I've got a digger in to run some services to a small shed. It will only have lights, kettle, oven and other minor devices. No motors etc. The run is about 25 metres from the switch board.

What weight of armoured cable should I lay down?

Thanks
 

wdah/him

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Location
tyrone
curisoty, what price in some of them, 16mm here is about £5.25 metre, apparently that is big enough to run to our house 100 metres away, it has been for the last 30 odd years but now changing the route and putting it in pipes not just buried.
 

defender

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Location
Aberdeenshire

I find it intriguing that the electricity companies use none armoured cable with aluminium conductors for 11kva
a lot of power companies wire is aluminium and has a copper outer wire stranded round like an armour
I was told the reason for this is so that it can't be tapped with a screwnail to steal power
This might just be after the transformer and not high voltage
 

Exfarmer

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Location
Bury St Edmunds
A
Sort of makes sense, aluminium carries more power and wire amour want stop a digger so why bother, and its scrap value is less.
Actually copper carries more power. For some reason UK regulations do not allow anything but copper to be used for domestic and industrial installs. Only the DNOs and above are allowed to use alluminium.
Alluminium is allowed in other systems such as renewables
 

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