Self-testing emergency lights BS 5266-1:2016

Tom D 2 months ago

I just need confirmation as I couldn't find the info in the BS5266 book.

If I choose self-testing emergency lights for my project do I still need an "old fashioned" emergency lighting test key switch to do regular monthly or annual tests?

Self-testing lights are smart enough to indicate visually or audibly once the problem has been detected so I guess it is not necessary to have test key switches as well but some places still do it, why?

0 whjohnson 2 months ago in reply to AJJewsbury

On the ones I have been looking at they have used MK double pole grid switches with the neutral passing through the switches too.
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0 AJJewsbury 2 months ago in reply to whjohnson

I think isolation is more to do with the clearance and creepage distances - N often doesn't need to be broken for isolation in TN systems.

- Andy.
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0 Sergio Fernandez 2 months ago in reply to whjohnson

Might be worth looking at using a contactor per floor of the building to achieve isolation and then a key switch for manual testing even if it is a Self testing system. The flip side of that is the cost but if the customer is happy to pay
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