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How do we create or adapt infrastructure within homes or workplaces so that DC appliances can be adopted?
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It is noteworthy that there are far more international standards relating to electrocution (which has fortunately become rarer since the introduction of RCDs), than to prevention of fire.
That has to do with history, I think. In Germany, the electrotechnical engineering professional society VDE was founded in 1893 and that same year the electrical-safety low voltage standard VDE 0100 was published.
I don't actually definitively know if electrocution was the main concern then, or electrical fires, or both.
It is a bit different in the UK, since the forerunner of the BSI was founded separately from the STE/STEE/IEE and IIE.
The original version of BS7671, The Wiring Regulations was "Rules and Regulations for the Prevention of Fire Risks arising from Electric Lighting."
It is noteworthy that there are far more international standards relating to electrocution (which has fortunately become rarer since the introduction of RCDs), than to prevention of fire.
That has to do with history, I think. In Germany, the electrotechnical engineering professional society VDE was founded in 1893 and that same year the electrical-safety low voltage standard VDE 0100 was published.
I don't actually definitively know if electrocution was the main concern then, or electrical fires, or both.
It is a bit different in the UK, since the forerunner of the BSI was founded separately from the STE/STEE/IEE and IIE.
The original version of BS7671, The Wiring Regulations was "Rules and Regulations for the Prevention of Fire Risks arising from Electric Lighting."
