Wiring & Electrics - Shipping Container Home Office - Container Conversion

Previously the windows were installed in the shipping container home office, and in this episode of the shipping container conversion I'm installing the electrical wiring, sockets and fuse board.

Previously, installing double glazed windows:    • Windows - Shipping Container Conversion - ...  
Next time, Insulating the shipping container:    • Insulation - Shipping Container Insulation...  

Wiring a shipping container is relatively simple, depending on your local regulations and methods, as there aren't really going to be all that many points. Electrical wiring generally isn't very complicated as long as you follow basic rules such as brown to brown, blue to blue, and earth to earth - but if you aren't confident you shouldn't attempt it. Even if you are confident, you undertake and wiring at your own risk and this isn't an instructional video, I'm simply demonstrating how I wired my shipping container.

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I used one ring-main circuit for the sockets in the shipping container home office. For this I used 2.5mm or 14AWG wire in a full un-broken ring, and only stripped the wires for each socket without cutting it. I then applied shielding to the earth wires before wiring up the sockets. I also installed rubber grommets in the back-boxes to make sure the wires wouldn't be damaged.

The door of the shipping container is electric and needs a charging wire, this is just a single 1.5mm (16awg) wire directly from the fuse board to the charging box.

The shipping container home office lighting circuit I used a 1.5mm (16awg) 3 core and earth cable which allows me to switch two lights with a single cable. On the fuse box side I use the brown wire for line, black for neutral, and copper for earth. The grey wire isn't used between the fuse board and the switch. From the switch the brown wire is used as the line for the first circuit, the grey is used as the line for the second circuit, the black is common neutral for both, and the copper is common earth for both.