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BS 3621 and Avivas home insurance advert.

UKPN
Following this weeks ongoing BS 7288 SRCD topic, a TV advert that gives me a chuckle is the above. The customer is being interrogated by a home insurance advisor and she is asking him if his home meets certain standards of security for an insurance quote. Coming to the door locks, and if they meet BS 3621 he, almost in tears remarks, " I don't know, nobody knows". It made me think of Jack, the imaginary workshop owner who changed his double sw/skt to a SCRD for safety and was told on an EICR it was potentially dangerous because it wasn't backed up by yet another 30ma rccd.


Regards, UKPN.


(The advert is also on youtube)
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    Amusingly a lot of locks are advertised, perhaps dyslexically as BS 3261 compliant (rather than 3621). That (BS 3261) is a standard for plastic flooring.

    I'm not a fan of quoting standard nos without highlighting what aspects they are testing.
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    Mike,

    I know just what you mean. I was once informed that the cable being utilised met BS 6200 (which is Sampling and Analysis of Iron, Steel and other Ferrous Metals). We worked out that they meant BS 6500 Electric Cables - Flexible Cords rated up to 300/500V.  There is a significant difference between the two standards.....

    Alasdair
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    UKPN:

    Following this weeks ongoing BS 7288 SRCD topic




    Old news, seems odd that the bones are only recently being picked out of this subject!

    https://www2.theiet.org/forums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=205&threadid=28346

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    My favourite is BS6008. Essential for workmen anywhere.

    (BS6008 describes how to make a cup of tea)
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    In the Internet world, there's RFC 1149, "IP over Avian Carriers", which describes how to transmit Internet data using homing pigeons.
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    I find the BS6008 method leads to tea that tastes a little stewed to my taste, as it is based on preparing tea for comparative analysis, rather than drinking for pleasure,  and personally I prefer the procedure laid down by the Royal Society of Chemistry.  Perhaps I do not hold the BSI in such high regard as some.
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    mapj1:

    ... and personally I prefer the procedure laid down by the Royal Society of Chemistry. 




    That process was common knowledge when I was a boy, but nowadays teabags make it so much easier. If slurping is vulgar, then I shall happily carry on being vulgar. ?

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    mapj1:

    I find the BS6008 method leads to tea that tastes a little stewed to my taste, as it is based on preparing tea for comparative analysis, rather than drinking for pleasure,  and personally I prefer the procedure laid down by the Royal Society of Chemistry.  Perhaps I do not hold the BSI in such high regard as some.




    Well, double+ strength teas as prepared by tea inporters, are generally pretty awful although there is one exception, Lapsang Souchong. It doesn't tar the tongue and teeth with tanins.


    Legh

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    wallywombat:

    In the Internet world, there's RFC 1149, "IP over Avian Carriers", which describes how to transmit Internet data using homing pigeons.




    Which has, in fact, been implemented. And worked :O


    In similar vein, my ISP (A&A) actually got ADSL to work over literal wet string. 

    https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html

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