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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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    But if the electric shaver was supplied by a 20VA shaver unit that would reduce the shock current wouldn't it?

    A bit - 20VA at 230V is about 90mA - and it will probably supply a bit extra under fault conditions until the thermal overload disconnects the transformer - so likely it can supply well in excess of 100mA - that twice what can kill in normal dry conditions - and probably nearer to 50x what can kill in totally immersed conditions as skin resistance will be much reduced. So perhaps better than direct mains, but still I don't think it's the sort of thing I'd bet my life on.

       - Andy.

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    But if the electric shaver was supplied by a 20VA shaver unit that would reduce the shock current wouldn't it?

    A bit - 20VA at 230V is about 90mA - and it will probably supply a bit extra under fault conditions until the thermal overload disconnects the transformer - so likely it can supply well in excess of 100mA - that twice what can kill in normal dry conditions - and probably nearer to 50x what can kill in totally immersed conditions as skin resistance will be much reduced. So perhaps better than direct mains, but still I don't think it's the sort of thing I'd bet my life on.

       - Andy.

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