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A Good Design but............

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Evenin' All,


I have been working in some holiday chalets today on a chalet park by the sea.


One chalet had a lovely new R.C.B.O. consumer unit in it. Beautifully installed. Very neat.


Another had a new split load consumer unit installed in it. Very nicely installed.


But why were they both a waste of money?


Z.

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    SP RCDs ?

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    All Gas ?
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    12V DC Electrics?
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    No discrimination with the 30mA RCD in the supply (now required by 708.415.1)?

       - Andy.
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    AJJewsbury:

    No discrimination with the 30mA RCD in the supply (now required by 708.415.1)?

       - Andy.


    These are big permanent garden sheds. Does that reg. apply Andy? Caravan/Camping Parks and Similar Locations.


    Z.


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    Was it because they had only lighting no sockets
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    AJJewsbury:

    No discrimination with the 30mA RCD in the supply (now required by 708.415.1)?

       - Andy.


    These are big permanent garden sheds. Does that reg. apply Andy? Caravan/Camping Parks and Similar Locations.


    Z.




    They sounded like "residential park homes" to me... (or at least something that was more like a residential park home than an ordinary building). I haven't seen them of course, so could well be wrong. It was only a guess.

       - Andy.


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    no spd / AFDD / goldplated chocolate bar fitted.


    Or maybe given the sort of jobs you find to post here , maybe no eaerthing....
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    Andy has it I believe. All chalets have a site owned up front non time delayed R.C.D. So a single fault will knock out all of a chalet's electrics despite the owner's consumer unit being all R.C.B.O. or split load.


    Z.
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    AJJewsbury:
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    AJJewsbury:

    No discrimination with the 30mA RCD in the supply (now required by 708.415.1)?

       - Andy.


    These are big permanent garden sheds. Does that reg. apply Andy? Caravan/Camping Parks and Similar Locations.


    Z.




    They sounded like "residential park homes" to me... (or at least something that was more like a residential park home than an ordinary building). I haven't seen them of course, so could well be wrong. It was only a guess.

       - Andy.




    Having just looked up the definition of "residential park home" in B.S. 7671, I would say that the chalets are NOT to be bound by section 708 as they are permanent buildings with no wheels and are NOT a "factory produced relocatable dwelling."  They are more like small permanent bungalows.


    Z.


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