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PAS 63100:2024 now available

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PAS 63100:2024 Electrical installations. Protection against fire of battery energy storage systems for use in dwellings. Specification is now available on the BSI web-site: https://knowledge.bsigroup.com/products/electrical-installations-protection-against-fire-of-battery-energy-storage-systems-for-use-in-dwellings-specification?version=standard&tab=overview

It can be freely downloaded (DRM free) from a link on that page.

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  • Is this type of install now outside of this PAS?

    Batteries are not within a common fire rated enclosure with Overcurrent protection… or are they? 

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  • Is this type of install now outside of this PAS?

    Batteries are not within a common fire rated enclosure with Overcurrent protection… or are they? 

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    Martyn said:
    Batteries are not within a common fire rated enclosure with Overcurrent protection… or are they? 

    If I remember correctly 'non-combustible enclosure containing the overcurrent protection' (6.1.1 of the PAS). They certainly seem to be metal enclosures ... I don't know whether those batteries have internal overcurrent protection (but if not, I can't see any overcurrent protection on the DC side from the pictures, and we probably need to consider that for BS 7671). I'm also not sure whether they have accessible "push to disconnect" terminals either (see 4.2.1 of the PAS).

    Whether they need fire resisting separation, if there is no option but to install indoors, is discussed in 6.5.1 of the PAS (i.e. making sure locations in 6.5.5 are not compromised).

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