4 Feb
2011
4 Feb
'11
12:50 p.m.
On 04/02/2011 19:43, Tony Duell wrote:
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 think the only non-earthed sockets you would find
now are isolated
shaver sockets.
What, you don't run everything off a multiway bayonet adapter hanging
off the light fitting? ;-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
My bathroom has a small laundry section which I
am intending to use as a
darkroom. My flat is from 1963 so there is no socket in there, I have
bought a portable GFI and intend to run an earthed extension lead from
the kitchen via the GFI into the bathroom whenever I want to use it as a
darkroom. Probably illegal but it should protect me (I hope...).
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.