RE: Ring main question

[Robert Chasmer <robert.chasmer@xxxxxxx>]

OOps sent the message to soon, I was going to add.

Is this normal, my ring at home certainly isn't like this of is this
something to worry about.  Another thought I had was that there are two
seperate rings but someone has managed to join the two together.

I wrote:
> So it seems that the ring main is feed by two fuses, one in
> each direction.
>
>                                MAINS
>
>      +--- Socket 8 ------ Fuse --+-- Fuse ------ Socket 1 ---+
>
>   Socket 7                                                Socket 2
>
>      +--- Socket 6 --- Socket 5 --- Socket 4 --- Socket 3 ---+
>
> How is a normal ring main fused, does each direction of the
> ring simply terminate into the same fuse like a socket?
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