gkenyon:ProMbrooke:davezawadi (David Stone):
I am not an advocate of AFDDs and have been at a number of meetings where they were discussed at length. I have no particular influence on JPEL/64, or the BSI or CENELEC or the IEC, although I have spent a lot of time with AFDDs and written a paper. I agree that they probably will not make a significant difference to the fire statistics, as they have not in the USA as far as I can find out. Have you looked at the front of BS7671? You can see that there are a lot of representatives on JPEL/64 who may have vested interests in selling AFDDs and possibly many other things too. The problem is not a lack of democracy but that ANY vested interests must be declared at all levels and stages. I should state that I have precisely none and my views are not necessarily those of the IET. Do you have any vested interests?
David CEng etc.
Vested Interests? Cutler Hammer bribed the NFPA and had UL create not only a 1699 standard tailored to Eaton's tastes but various studies claiming how arcing was not only behind most home fires but also how AFCIs would slash the number each year. Since day one it was destination science funded by a gamble.
I encourage you to read these 4 PDFs:
https://www.electriciansforums.net/threads/afdds-are-a-massive-fraud.175536/page-18#post-1720416
Inventive way to get people to register on another Forum?
Errr, not my goal. I link to other forums all the time when information is present within them. Ill see if I can upload the PDFs to this forum however. My appologies :)
Edit: I have removed the link.
gkenyon:ProMbrooke:davezawadi (David Stone):
I am not an advocate of AFDDs and have been at a number of meetings where they were discussed at length. I have no particular influence on JPEL/64, or the BSI or CENELEC or the IEC, although I have spent a lot of time with AFDDs and written a paper. I agree that they probably will not make a significant difference to the fire statistics, as they have not in the USA as far as I can find out. Have you looked at the front of BS7671? You can see that there are a lot of representatives on JPEL/64 who may have vested interests in selling AFDDs and possibly many other things too. The problem is not a lack of democracy but that ANY vested interests must be declared at all levels and stages. I should state that I have precisely none and my views are not necessarily those of the IET. Do you have any vested interests?
David CEng etc.
Vested Interests? Cutler Hammer bribed the NFPA and had UL create not only a 1699 standard tailored to Eaton's tastes but various studies claiming how arcing was not only behind most home fires but also how AFCIs would slash the number each year. Since day one it was destination science funded by a gamble.
I encourage you to read these 4 PDFs:
https://www.electriciansforums.net/threads/afdds-are-a-massive-fraud.175536/page-18#post-1720416
Inventive way to get people to register on another Forum?
Errr, not my goal. I link to other forums all the time when information is present within them. Ill see if I can upload the PDFs to this forum however. My appologies :)
Edit: I have removed the link.
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