Hi everybody,
I wonder if any of you could offer me a bit of advice please? I really struggle with the concept of electrics so please forgive me if some of the wording is incorrect.
We are looking to buy a small plug and play Hot Tub, (or Spa). I am struggling to understand what problems we may be faced with, (apart from larger Electricity bills obviously).
The Spa plugs into a standard 13 amp weatherproof socket. I am aware that the Spa comes with quite a short power lead due to ampage drop. Can I assume that if we get an Electrician to run a new weatherproof socket from our ring main, that the length of lead from the spur to the socket needs to be taken into account as well?
Also how are we likely to stand with regards to the consumer unit tripping due to too many amps being drawn? I believe that they can handle around 32amps so would we need to work out the ampage of everything connected to the ring main and not exceed this amount?
We obviously don't want to be in a situation where we have to unplug or switch things off in order to use the Spa as this would be more hassle than it's worth.
Any advice and corrections would be gratefully accepted.
Thank you.
I wonder if any of you could offer me a bit of advice please? I really struggle with the concept of electrics so please forgive me if some of the wording is incorrect.
We are looking to buy a small plug and play Hot Tub, (or Spa). I am struggling to understand what problems we may be faced with, (apart from larger Electricity bills obviously).
The Spa plugs into a standard 13 amp weatherproof socket. I am aware that the Spa comes with quite a short power lead due to ampage drop. Can I assume that if we get an Electrician to run a new weatherproof socket from our ring main, that the length of lead from the spur to the socket needs to be taken into account as well?
Also how are we likely to stand with regards to the consumer unit tripping due to too many amps being drawn? I believe that they can handle around 32amps so would we need to work out the ampage of everything connected to the ring main and not exceed this amount?
We obviously don't want to be in a situation where we have to unplug or switch things off in order to use the Spa as this would be more hassle than it's worth.
Any advice and corrections would be gratefully accepted.
Thank you.