5 Feb
2011
5 Feb
'11
7:12 a.m.
On 04/02/2011 19:43, Tony Duell wrote:
I beileive you are right. I think 2-pin transformer-isolated shaver
sockets (with no earth) are sill permitted, though.
Until quite receently 2-pin non-isoalted shaver sockets were still
allowed in bedrooms, etc. I have no idea if that's still the case, I've
never used one, and never intend to.
I have no idea what the regualtions ontaht are
over here. Virtually every
new installation (since about 1948) uses the 'ring main' with 3 pin
(earthed) sockets and plugs with intenral cartridge fuses.
IIRC, since the most recent edition of the IET Wiring Regulations, all
new installations of domestic/office ring mains have to have an RCD and
non-earthed sockets have been forbidden (old or new circuits) for a very
long time. Again IIRC, there are some exceptions to the RCD rule for
workshops and the like. I would have
to check the rgualtions, but in a darkroom you are working
in poor light with electricla stuff and water. No way would I want to do
without n RCD.
What, you don't run everything off a multiway bayonet adapter hanging
off the light fitting? ;-)