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Plastic taps from Screwfix - £4.28 per pair inc vat.

I hope this helps, now I must get on, got a busy day. I wish you all a safe day.

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  • UKPN:

    I hope this helps, now I must get on, got a busy day. I wish you all a safe day.

    Regards UKPN.?Zap


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    Jaymack:
    UKPN:

    I hope this helps, now I must get on, got a busy day. I wish you all a safe day.

    Regards UKPN.?Zap


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    Jaymack




    Subtle mickey taking more like - read the thread on 7V shocks from outside taps


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  • Nothing in the screwfix catalogue that looks like it might work as an outside tap though. An insulated break in the pipe is more sensible, the perception threshold is a few hundred microamps to 1mA for most folk, so some tens of K ohms in series would be enough -  a 6 inch length of PEX would afford that in many parts of the country.

    Nowhere in the UK has a higher tap water conductivity than 2500μS/cm at 20°C , this being the test limit that nowhere failed for the report in the Chief Inspector of Drinking Water - see page 17.  This is actually quite a low limit (it would mean a 1cm cube of water is 400 ohms across opposite faces) but sets a worst case for estimating what sort of pipe lengths you may need. Conductivity is a proxy for total dissolved solids (TDS) when a proper chemical analysis to determine exactly what is dissolved is not worth it, really it represents a sort of average free ionic charge density. (indeed some are calibrated as TDS, either %, ppm (normally by weight) or sometimes milli-grams per litre. example) 1000ppm is normally taken as about 1500μS/cm at 20°C, or about 670 ohms across the faces a 1cm cube.