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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 agree that its dangerouse to turn gas off without certain precautions before turnning it back on again  thats what the professionals say and thats good enough for me.  Now protecting a whole installation with a single up front RCD is not ideal in many ways putting g a whole house in darkness for a single fault dangerouse so if its possible to avoid it then its sensible to avoid doing that individual circuit RCBOs are far better  because at least you still have some power and also an idea of what area the fault us in. The advice and regulations given by the IET try to be best practice both in technical terms and from a safety of persons angle  so the two things are linked no doubt about it. 

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    I agree that its dangerouse to turn gas off without certain precautions before turnning it back on again  thats what the professionals say and thats good enough for me.  Now protecting a whole installation with a single up front RCD is not ideal in many ways putting g a whole house in darkness for a single fault dangerouse so if its possible to avoid it then its sensible to avoid doing that individual circuit RCBOs are far better  because at least you still have some power and also an idea of what area the fault us in. The advice and regulations given by the IET try to be best practice both in technical terms and from a safety of persons angle  so the two things are linked no doubt about it. 

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