Is This Compliant?

Are the shields (bases) also marked with the unconventional ratings? If not I don't see how ordinary persons are meant to be able to put the right carrier back into the right slot if they ever remove two or more at a time. Not in the sprit of 533.1.2.2 at all, although perhaps doesn't contravene the actual words.

The more I read 533.1.2.2 the odder is seems - can I really just get away with writing the rating on the fuse link and no-where else? And without labels I can allow fuse links of the wrong rating, provided that the if the correct rating is used it can't have the wrong fusing factor?

  - Andy.

Are the shields (bases) also marked with the unconventional ratings? If not I don't see how ordinary persons are meant to be able to put the right carrier back into the right slot if they ever remove two or more at a time. Not in the sprit of 533.1.2.2 at all, although perhaps doesn't contravene the actual words.

The more I read 533.1.2.2 the odder is seems - can I really just get away with writing the rating on the fuse link and no-where else? And without labels I can allow fuse links of the wrong rating, provided that the if the correct rating is used it can't have the wrong fusing factor?

  - Andy.

Tricky question that Andy, because in BS88 land, multiple ratings are in the same size carriers, and fairly often nothing is labelled, actually the same as many heads! I suppose the public does not often see these, but there has been a distinct unease that someone may use the wrong fuse wire size for many years, leading to Bs1361 fuse boards and now MCBs. I am not sure that either of these have made a statistical difference to anything much, although they may be more convenient.