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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

 

Z.

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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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    “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”

    Hi Kelly, I hope you will not be offended as I mention I am struggling as to the compatibility of those two statements

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    OK what I meant was that although I'm still carefull and take time to make things as safe as possible especially with my weak heart now  i occasionally still get caught out especially when my friend brings some odd device for me to try  so what I was trying to say was that although I'm carefull people,e still bring things that bite hope thats a bit clearer

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    Hi Kelly,

    I hope your weak heart serves you well.

    Take care of it (I know you will do).

    Take care what you doing and what you`re touching - like you say, things can bite. Care care care and care again, let it be your byeword .

    And of course the Odd RCD or three when playing about with those little gems people bring.

     

    Any of us can get bitten, we are not all indestructable.

    Best regards

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    Yes it can happen to us all glad you got what I mean now  right im off to the pub   all this typing made me thirsty Lol

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    Kelly Marie Angel: 
    Yes it can happen to us all glad you got what I mean now  right im off to the pub   all this typing made me thirsty Lol

    That's very naughty. Alcohol is bad for the heart, or at least my cardiologist says so. I am booked in for further fault-finding and rectification next week. Wish me luck!

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    Kelly I am reminded of an old T.V. repair man. When I visited his workshop I saw that he ran all T.V.s under repair on his bench via a large double wound mains' isolating transformer. Very sensible I thought.

     

    Z.

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    You are reminding a surgeon of that! Doctors are immune, at least the ones I know think they are!

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    You beat me zoom, I hope that was only one at a time! Old TVs were live chassis, but two of them at once were a serious risk depending on which way around the two-pin plug was inserted.

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    Sorry guys I only just caught up with this thread so  Chris hope your hospital appointment went well I've got a checkup in September with any luck they will just let me carry on same as I am now. I realy don't want the operation its too scary to contemplait. I know alcohol is not good with a weak heart  but consider this im far more relaxed after a few beers  which must offset any other bad effects. I used to hang out in my friends TV workshop and he had 2 large isolation trannys one for each bench and just about every type of mains socket  you can imagine  all good stuff

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