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The Value of R.C.D.s

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There have been many discussions recently about R.C.D.s, whether they really are necessary, and is an installation necessarily unsafe if it is old and has no, or insufficient, R.C.D. protection.

 

Well consider this please. If you are driving and need to brake hard to save somebody from injury or death does that incident ever get reported. If you knocked somebody over due to having bad vehicle brakes then it might.

 

If an R.C.D. operates correctly and saves somebody from injury or death, does that every get reported? There may have been 10s, 100s or even thousands of cases where an R.C.D. has saved somebody from injury or death, but we will never know the numbers because of a lack of reporting of the cases.

 

Personally I like the idea of R.C.D. protection

 

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    Here at Kelly towers the lighting circuits and upstairs power including the electric shower are NOT RCD protected  i know they should be but I can't afford to get it done also the lighting in my disco room is protected by a plug in RCD which is better than nothing and yes I do test it regularly. My test bench in my shack workshop is protected by a 10 mA RCD and the whole shack us on a 30mA RCD.mincid3ntally the main DB despite its shortcomings was installed by  the SEB in about 2005

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    Here at Kelly towers the lighting circuits and upstairs power including the electric shower are NOT RCD protected  i know they should be but I can't afford to get it done also the lighting in my disco room is protected by a plug in RCD which is better than nothing and yes I do test it regularly. My test bench in my shack workshop is protected by a 10 mA RCD and the whole shack us on a 30mA RCD.mincid3ntally the main DB despite its shortcomings was installed by  the SEB in about 2005

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