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Former Community Member over 4 years ago

Hello again, following on from the recent topic that discussed sizing electrical supplies to fixed equipment we have been asked to install 4 number 9KW electric showers into the same commercial premises as my earlier question on RCD protection to lighting.

Designer has asked for a 250A SPN sub board, (3 phase supply is available) and 4 x 60A SPN supplies to the showers with 60A DP isolators. When I checked the model MI they state a 40A supply is required. I queried this with the designer and his answer is that the showers draw 39A so wants the 60A supplies. Apart from the fact I can't find a decorative DP switch rated at 60A, am I missing something in that this feels unnecessary. No cable sizes have been discussed yet,

Showers are on an office floor with 200 or so desks so assuming similar numbers of staff although not convinced that all staff will be lining up to use the showers on a daily basis.

Again thanks in advance for any thoughts.

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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

Yes Andy I would agree about the 60 A, we seem to get a lot of cut and paste specifications these days, you can usually tell when there's 200 pages of bumpf and about 4 lines of meaningful text about what is required. ?

There's a few things missing, RCD protection to lights, no emergency lighting in the changing/shower rooms, only 1 lighting PIR in each changing room which meant that there's a lot of dead spots for detection. As it is only an outline spec for our pricing we have to be careful at this stage so we do not add in what we would think is required as this could make us uncompetitive so have just tried to clarify a few points but still received some strange answers.
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0 Former Community Member over 4 years ago

Yes Andy I would agree about the 60 A, we seem to get a lot of cut and paste specifications these days, you can usually tell when there's 200 pages of bumpf and about 4 lines of meaningful text about what is required. ?

There's a few things missing, RCD protection to lights, no emergency lighting in the changing/shower rooms, only 1 lighting PIR in each changing room which meant that there's a lot of dead spots for detection. As it is only an outline spec for our pricing we have to be careful at this stage so we do not add in what we would think is required as this could make us uncompetitive so have just tried to clarify a few points but still received some strange answers.
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