but Mr Evans was asking how to get around fitting an RCD if I'm reading his [ost correctly.
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Not exactly Binky , I've been putting welding sockets in for years but never with an RCD .
Now , with the Regs coming in over the last few years , we started with RCDs for outside sockets ............ then it was virtually ALL sockets unless you fitted a label ....then it was under the control of skilled personal...then it was for ALL circuits in a bathroom ....then for buried cables unless they were a certain depth deep in the wall ....... also sockets up to 20 amp was it ?? but include over 20A for mobile vehicles ....on & on ...now we have 300 different types of RCD in the equation .
I imagined a welder knocking the RCD out all the time , but putting one OUTSIDE raised the question . However The Canny Geordie has experience of this and assures that an RCD will be no problem . They hav'nt answered my quote as yet but if they go ahead it will indeed be RCD.
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Know what you mean, I need to re-read this section of the regs to confirm when we don't have to RCD things. I've still got it in my head that industrial doesn't necessarily need RCDs or surface cable runs. I particularly need to double check on the solar side, becuase solar inverters can be good at tripping RCDs, but most now have some form of RCD protection built in.
It has got silly , where you adapt to one upgrade and then they keep adding and altering .
Domestic work now , I think just RCBO s on everything , end of . All this pratting about . What was it ? Freezer socket without RCD but MUST have label , but you can't do that because the cable is buried in the wall less than 50 mm deep , but you could use a Flexishield cable , but then you'd have to buy a whole drum @ £1000,000 .
Domestic work now , I think just RCBO s on everything , end of . All this pratting about . What was it ? Freezer socket without RCD but MUST have label , but you can't do that because the cable is buried in the wall less than 50 mm deep , but you could use a Flexishield cable , but then you'd have to buy a whole drum @ £1000,000 .
more like change so IET get a few back handers from manufacturers for selling more of their products...
I don't think its that murky, but this insistence on 3 yearly regulation changes is "forcing" them to adopt ill thought out changes PLUS they seem to forget about the ill conceived changes previously implemented, which really need more thought/revisions/clarification.
To be a fly on the wall during these meetings would be fascinating ............
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