Why would a change be advertised? BS 7671 never made reference to BS 7288 at all, in the 17th Edition Amendment 3 (2015) or earlier, so it's not been removed.
A reference to BS 7288 might not have been removed in a textual or editorial sense, but when a requirement that allows you to use any device you like provided it's rated at 30mA and opens within 40ms at 5xIΔn (so included BS 7288 devices) changes to a short list of specific devices (which didn't include BS 7288) it's certainly a logical or meaningful deletion. (Changes to BS 7288 notwithstanding.)
BS 7288:2016 clearly states in the scope that SRCDs to that standard must have fault protection and additional protection upstream of the SRCD.
I've been wondering about that. The words as reported don't seem to make sense to me (as has already been mentioned, what's the point in an RCD socket or FCU if the supplying circuit already needs its own 30mA RCD protection?) - and I can't see the context in which it's been written - but could it have been intended to say something along the lines of: the circuit upstream of the device will need to have been provided with any additional protection required for that circuit (which might be 30mA RCD protection, or supplementary bonding, or (more usually) nothing at all - depending on the circumstances) - i.e. it's just attempting to emphasis the point that the device only provides downstream protection and you might still need something else if the supply cables are concealed in wall or run within a bathroom or whatever.
Why would a change be advertised? BS 7671 never made reference to BS 7288 at all, in the 17th Edition Amendment 3 (2015) or earlier, so it's not been removed.
A reference to BS 7288 might not have been removed in a textual or editorial sense, but when a requirement that allows you to use any device you like provided it's rated at 30mA and opens within 40ms at 5xIΔn (so included BS 7288 devices) changes to a short list of specific devices (which didn't include BS 7288) it's certainly a logical or meaningful deletion. (Changes to BS 7288 notwithstanding.)
BS 7288:2016 clearly states in the scope that SRCDs to that standard must have fault protection and additional protection upstream of the SRCD.
I've been wondering about that. The words as reported don't seem to make sense to me (as has already been mentioned, what's the point in an RCD socket or FCU if the supplying circuit already needs its own 30mA RCD protection?) - and I can't see the context in which it's been written - but could it have been intended to say something along the lines of: the circuit upstream of the device will need to have been provided with any additional protection required for that circuit (which might be 30mA RCD protection, or supplementary bonding, or (more usually) nothing at all - depending on the circumstances) - i.e. it's just attempting to emphasis the point that the device only provides downstream protection and you might still need something else if the supply cables are concealed in wall or run within a bathroom or whatever.
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