About ten minutes ago, I got an e-mail notification from the IET Shop that 'The Big Orange Book' has been dispatched and is on its way to me . . . 
About ten minutes ago, I got an e-mail notification from the IET Shop that 'The Big Orange Book' has been dispatched and is on its way to me . . .
Not at all as BS 7671 does not deal with anything that plugs in to and installation other than caravans.
Have you received your copy already?
I believe those who use VitalSource platform can see it already.
John, I agree that BS 7671 imposes no requirements upon anything which may be plugged in, but what about 411.3.3? Whether there must be additional protection for a socket-outlet depends upon who is using it and where it is being used.
Then there is 551.7.2, which prohibits connection of a generating set by means of a plug and socket-outlet. Arguably, whatever plug-in solar is connected to becomes an inlet just as a caravan has one (721.55.1).
Mark Coles did not rule out the possibility of an Amendment 5 this morning. I cannot help feeling that BS 7671 cannot ignore small-scale solar just because it is plugged in.
Do we know who will be delivering it please? (The postman has already been today.)
I cannot help feeling that BS 7671 cannot ignore small-scale solar just because it is plugged in.
I agree that it's now a reasonably-foreseeable use-case, although there are currently no product standards that cover such devices.
Not at all as BS 7671 does not deal with anything that plugs in to and installation other than caravans.
I would, however, agree with JP's point ... if there are "integration issues" with plug-in solar, those "integration issues" aren't going to go away just because a future amendment of BS 7671 is aligned with the use-case. There are millions of electrical installations in use, and the products must take that into account somehow.
If the product standard's answer is to put a line in the instructions to get the electrical installation checked out before you connect ... well, that's not going to flick the switch on the up-take of safe plug-in solar, is it?
I've no specific information on this occaision, but on previously I think it has been DHL.
I've no specific information on this occaision, but on previously I think it has been DHL.
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