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Coby:

It is very strange that a group of electrical engineers would get together and decide to use earthed equipotential bonding in order to limit touch voltages, then call it earthed equipotential bonding and automatic disconnection of supply when they saved you all of this confusion by simply calling it earthed equipotential bonding and the limitation of touch voltages!



 

I think with respect, you have missed the point. EEB on its own does what you describe, and could I agree have been called that - for that is all that EEB accomplishes .

However, to omit the ADS part, that is to say not to have any fuses, circuit breakers or RCDs to automatically disconnect the supply if there was a fault, would be very reckless. Did you really intend to recommend that ? certainly no edition of the regs ancient or modern does. The right sort of ADS works without EEB, but EEB without ADS is really not such a clever idea. If you did mean to propose that, then I think you will be in a group of one !

Coby:

It is very strange that a group of electrical engineers would get together and decide to use earthed equipotential bonding in order to limit touch voltages, then call it earthed equipotential bonding and automatic disconnection of supply when they saved you all of this confusion by simply calling it earthed equipotential bonding and the limitation of touch voltages!



 

I think with respect, you have missed the point. EEB on its own does what you describe, and could I agree have been called that - for that is all that EEB accomplishes .

However, to omit the ADS part, that is to say not to have any fuses, circuit breakers or RCDs to automatically disconnect the supply if there was a fault, would be very reckless. Did you really intend to recommend that ? certainly no edition of the regs ancient or modern does. The right sort of ADS works without EEB, but EEB without ADS is really not such a clever idea. If you did mean to propose that, then I think you will be in a group of one !