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Smart switch alexa is does it count
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So looking through regs items need to be switched to be controlled. So does an Alexa for type switch count. If you run a normal switch then add Alexa bulb say at some point someone will turn off the switch and the item will over time deprogramme. Therefore you could short back of switch giving constant power and solving problem but is that within the regs?
I remember having an argument with my former foreman back in the mid 80s about this subject, regarding an old school MEM excel isolator, 2p, 20 amp. Single phase application. Do we isolate the neutral (bearing in mind 16th ed). Our final compromise was to put the phase./line nearest to the switch actuator, so if someone slammed the isolator off really hard and broke the switch bar (yeah I know, unlikely)... the live one would be the one to break.
These days, if it comes right down to it,. make the isolator double pole and lockable, and rely on the following people to do proper testing.
I remember having an argument with my former foreman back in the mid 80s about this subject, regarding an old school MEM excel isolator, 2p, 20 amp. Single phase application. Do we isolate the neutral (bearing in mind 16th ed). Our final compromise was to put the phase./line nearest to the switch actuator, so if someone slammed the isolator off really hard and broke the switch bar (yeah I know, unlikely)... the live one would be the one to break.
These days, if it comes right down to it,. make the isolator double pole and lockable, and rely on the following people to do proper testing.
