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IET announces new amendment to BS 7671 (IET Wiring Regulations)

Lisa Miles
Hi all


Just read about this in the latest edition of Wiring Matters Magazine and thought it may be of interest!
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    Okay.


    So the SRCDs and FCURCD devices are manufactured to two British Standards, including that one.


    Quote:

    ”The Timeguard range of RCDs provides protection against fire hazard and rapid double pole disconnection from electric shock for the appliance and cable connected to it. They comply fully with BS7288 and BS1363.”

    If you look at the installation instructions for the old Timeguard FCURCD it says BS 1363-4 on it next to BS 7288


    Which brings me back to the point I have reiterated several times, when assessing the suitability of the device you have to compare it against both British Standards and although BS7288 says it isn’t an isolator, BS1363-4 does say it can be used as an isolator.

    But it is stated the new version is to BS1363-2 and I don’t know if that makes a difference?


    So surely the requirement that an device that provides additional protection can be used as an isolator is fulfilled. I can’t actually remember which reg that is now and can’t see a bookmark for it.


    Andy Betteridge
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    And it says the new version meets the Wiring Regulations, but I am far from certain as to what that means.
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    Theiet.org:

    Here is a previous SRCD discussion from 2013:

    https://www2.theiet.org/forums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=205&threadid=51151




    Thanks mission control, but that discussion was for application of RCDs in a special location, specifically a Farm. 

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    I read that discussion from the old forum again and looked up the same regs the the 18th.


    The implication is that on a farm you have to add the requirements of the special location regs to the general regs, so by stating an additional requirement for farms that indicates it is not a general requirement, so if farms have to have RCDs in circuit rather than RCD protected sockets as an additional requirement, it’s not an general requirement.


    That is one for the wordsmiths to hammer out.


    Andy Betteridge 


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    1:

    Here is a previous SRCD discussion from 2013:

    https://www2.theiet.org/forums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=205&threadid=51151




    Actually 708.415.1 requires every caravan park socket to have individual RCDs, so what is being said can’t be done in that old post on a farm is exactly the way it is done on a caravan site.

    IET caravan parks.



     

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    Alcomax:




    Theiet.org:

    Here is a previous SRCD discussion from 2013:

    https://www2.theiet.org/forums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=205&threadid=51151




    Thanks mission control, but that discussion was for application of RCDs in a special location, specifically a Farm. 


     




    Thanks for the response Alco, from what I can remember I intended to allude to the fact that there have been grey areas WRT SRCDs in previous editions, it seems the new general regs may have now caught up with those previously reserverved for livestock and/or seasonal agricultural workers?

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    Alcomax:




    Theiet.org:

    Here is a previous SRCD discussion from 2013:

    https://www2.theiet.org/forums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=205&threadid=51151




    Thanks mission control, but that discussion was for application of RCDs in a special location, specifically a Farm. 


     




    Thanks for the response Alco, from what I can remember I intended to allude to the fact that there have been grey areas WRT SRCDs in previous editions, it seems the new general regs may have now caught up with those previously reserverved for livestock and/or seasonal agricultural workers?


     




     

    WB2    

    Ahh, so you had your collar felt by the real mission control?

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