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Equipment in bathroom cupboard

vantech

Hi, 

The regs stipulate zones for bathrooms, however I need some guidance on bathroom cupboards.

I have completed an inspection where there is heating control equipment located inside of the bathroom cupboard. This is mounted inside of an IP rated enclosure with a sealed transparent hinged door. There are no metallic parts, no switches etc, just the digital interface for the product itself. 

There is also a network switch, mounted inside of a locked rack enclosure. 
 

Am I right in thinking this is OK and I can treat this as a separate location? 

There are no sockets or switches on show - only 13amp unswitched fused connections. 
 

Thanks. 

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    he or she is not necessarily lower res than the bath water, nor do they need to be. But if current is flowing in the water, there is a voltage gradient along the current path. Put a hand in and you can tap into that at any point along the resistance, rather in the manner of the slider of old style school rheostat.

     Now, if you have one end of your body near one electrode and the other end of your body near the other, you get a significant belt. Much like step voltages on wet ground, but larger contact areas.

    As you fill more of the bath with body you displace the parallel water path, and the problem gets worse.

    However if the the two electrodes are close together, and you keep well away from them, you only see a  small fraction of the terminal voltage.

    M.

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    he or she is not necessarily lower res than the bath water, nor do they need to be. But if current is flowing in the water, there is a voltage gradient along the current path. Put a hand in and you can tap into that at any point along the resistance, rather in the manner of the slider of old style school rheostat.

     Now, if you have one end of your body near one electrode and the other end of your body near the other, you get a significant belt. Much like step voltages on wet ground, but larger contact areas.

    As you fill more of the bath with body you displace the parallel water path, and the problem gets worse.

    However if the the two electrodes are close together, and you keep well away from them, you only see a  small fraction of the terminal voltage.

    M.

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