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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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    AJJewsbury: 
     

    Of course if the charger had been fed via a U.K. double wound isolating transformer from a shaver outlet the deaths may not have happened. Or would they?

    I suspect a separated circuit wouldn't have helped in Graham's example - the shock current flowed from L via the water and victim to N - no path to Earth involved. A 230V separated circuit (like from an isolated shaver transformer) would have been able to supply such a shock current just the same

    But if the electric shaver was supplied by a 20VA shaver unit that would reduce the shock current wouldn't it? The shortest path is between the L and N at the underwater shaver, inside the shaver. When that short occurs the Voltage would be reduced substantially along with the current available.

     

    There are though many, many recent reports of bathers being electrocuted when a phone charger falls into the bath tub. Supplied directly from a powerful source I imaging. Perhaps we should just use 12 Volt caravan type appliances in bathrooms.

     

    Z.

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    AJJewsbury: 
     

    Of course if the charger had been fed via a U.K. double wound isolating transformer from a shaver outlet the deaths may not have happened. Or would they?

    I suspect a separated circuit wouldn't have helped in Graham's example - the shock current flowed from L via the water and victim to N - no path to Earth involved. A 230V separated circuit (like from an isolated shaver transformer) would have been able to supply such a shock current just the same

    But if the electric shaver was supplied by a 20VA shaver unit that would reduce the shock current wouldn't it? The shortest path is between the L and N at the underwater shaver, inside the shaver. When that short occurs the Voltage would be reduced substantially along with the current available.

     

    There are though many, many recent reports of bathers being electrocuted when a phone charger falls into the bath tub. Supplied directly from a powerful source I imaging. Perhaps we should just use 12 Volt caravan type appliances in bathrooms.

     

    Z.

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