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Residential Park Home and Section 708

Colin Haggett

Does the fixed connection to a Residential Park Home on a static park home site come under regulation 708.415.1 as in does it need a 30mA RCD at the connection point? In this case there’s a free standing meter box which used to have a 30mA RCD fitted it’s now been replaced with a 100mA RCD as test button had failed on the old one. Reading the scope it is unclear to me as it reads “residential park homes in caravan parks, camping parks and similar locations” so would a static park home site full under similar locations? Obviously they’ve used a different manufacturer as well which doesn’t appear to fit correctly but am more concerned about it being 100mA.

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Colin

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    Hi, personally I would prefer to have a 100mA time delay RCD. But I was more after the definition of what was meant by similar locations. They are all fixed connections here wired in SWA and all had a 30mA RCD at the external meter enclosure which would have  met req 708.415.1 under residential park home. Not sure i would have changed a 30mA RCD with a 100mA RCD without knowing what actually was installed in the home. 

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    Hi, personally I would prefer to have a 100mA time delay RCD. But I was more after the definition of what was meant by similar locations. They are all fixed connections here wired in SWA and all had a 30mA RCD at the external meter enclosure which would have  met req 708.415.1 under residential park home. Not sure i would have changed a 30mA RCD with a 100mA RCD without knowing what actually was installed in the home. 

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    708.1 relates only to the distribution circuits. And it is the distribution and the associated earthing arrangments that I believe is the reason why residential park homes (which are not leisure accomodation or caravans) are in that paragraph that reads: 'In caravan parks , camping parks and similar'.

    The similar being the distribution system feeding them. Only my understanding of course

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