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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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    I have installed a 10mA RCD socket in my workshop shack it has definatley saved me from a nasty belt a once or twice I am still mindfully of normal safety precautions and regard the RCD as an extra backup in case of an error I my part. Also I have a friend who brings me all sorts of interesting home made devices to look at and test the RCD gives me the extra feeling of safety just in case. When I had finished installing it I tried it with a plug in socket tester which tripped it straight away I measured the leakage of the testerand got around 9 mA at 240 volts  a figure that doesn't bother the 30mA one in the house DB. Please note I've become over cautious since my ongoing heart problems were diagnosed things like that certainly focus the mind

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    I have installed a 10mA RCD socket in my workshop shack it has definatley saved me from a nasty belt a once or twice I am still mindfully of normal safety precautions and regard the RCD as an extra backup in case of an error I my part. Also I have a friend who brings me all sorts of interesting home made devices to look at and test the RCD gives me the extra feeling of safety just in case. When I had finished installing it I tried it with a plug in socket tester which tripped it straight away I measured the leakage of the testerand got around 9 mA at 240 volts  a figure that doesn't bother the 30mA one in the house DB. Please note I've become over cautious since my ongoing heart problems were diagnosed things like that certainly focus the mind

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